Clifton Park Hospital
📍 York
University teaching hospital · founded 1950 · public
About
Clifton Park Hospital opened in 2006 and is located just outside York. The modern purpose built hospital has been rated ‘Good' by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and has first-class medical facilities including 24 beds, two theatres, a day case unit, a large outpatient department with X-ray facilities and on-site physiotherapy, including a small gym area. In 2018, the hospital opened a new outpatient department with 11 consulting rooms, two treatment rooms and x-ray facilities.As well as excellent transport links, the hospital is 10 minutes' drive from the city centre and has ample free parking directly outside the hospital.Clifton Park prides itself on offering exceptional care and service to all its patients and currently has a 5 star rating on NHS Choices, 4 star rating on Google and 4.7 rating on Facebook reviews. In the most recent survey - NHS Family & Friend's Test, 100% of inpatients and 98% of outpatients recommend the hospital.Clifton Park is a Centre of Excellence for Orthopaedics and specialises in all aspects of orthopaedic surgery and care from consultation right through to your aftercare. As well as orthopaedics, Clifton Park also specialises in breast, face, body and male cosmetic surgery.Hospital facilitiesThe hospital has high dependency facilities for those patients requiring specialist nursing care. The outpatient facilities includes, five consulting/examination rooms, facilities for undertaking diagnostic tests including an innovative in house laboratory service with the immediate provision of blood results, along side x-ray and ultra sound investigations, and pre-operative assessment. The physiotherapy department has a well equipped modern gymnasium providing for both in and out patients services.Two spacious theatres equipped with up to date modern equipment to undertake a range of operations, which will be performed under general and local anaesthetic.All patients who undergo surgery at Clifton Park Hospital in York are screened for MRSA prior to their procedure, to support our excellent "MRSA Bacteraemia free" status.If a wheelchair is required within the centre we are more than happy to provide one.Surgical proceduresHip replacements, including resurfacing and computer assisted surgeryKnee replacementsAnkle replacementsShoulder replacementsAnkle, shoulder and knee arthroscopiesCruciate ligament repairsA wide range of mid, fore and hind foot proceduresA wide range of hand proceduresShoulder and elbow surgerySpecialist sports injury surgeryCosmetic surgeryDiagnosticsMRIX-raysUltrasound
- Legal name
- Clifton Park Hospital
- Governance
- Board of directors · CEO appointed annually
- Employees
- 2,000
Capacity
Annual volume
Emergency capabilities
- Trauma centre — Level III
- Stroke: Primary Stroke Centre
- Chest-pain centre certified
- Door-to-balloon: 53 min (AHA target ≤ 90)
- Door-to-needle (stroke): 39 min
Subspecialty centres
🎗 Cancer centre: Comprehensive Cancer Centre
Transplant programmes
- Cornea
Robotic + advanced surgery
- da Vinci Xi
All departments
- Internal Medicine
- Surgery
- Emergency
Quality metrics
| Metric | Value | Benchmark |
|---|---|---|
| Risk-adjusted 30d mortality | 2.14% | EU avg 3.0% |
| HAI rate per 1000 patient-days | 1.64 | EU avg 1.8 |
| 30d readmission rate | 14% | EU avg 14% |
| Patient satisfaction (HCAHPS-like) | 88% | EU avg 76% |
Accreditations & certifications
- 🏅 ISO 9001:2015 · 2024
- 🏅 JCI International · 2023
- 🏅 HIMSS EMRAM Stage 6 · 2024 · level 6
Research & teaching
- 8 Residency programs
- 10 Fellowships
- 1500 Active trials
- 1,000 Publications / yr
- €50M Research funding
University: Local university medical school
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Patient experience
- Room categories
- ward · semi-private · private
- Meals
- standard · halal · kosher · vegan · gluten-free · pediatric
- Chaplaincy
- Christian · Muslim · Jewish
- Private bathroom
- private + suite rooms
- Wi-Fi
- Free in all rooms
International patients
- Office
- International Patient Services
- Languages
- EN · DE · AR · RU
- Partner hotels
- Local 4-star partner
Awards & rankings
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Top hospital — York
EuroClinics Patient Choice · 2025
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