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Circle Health Group · Swindon

The Ridgeway Hospital

The self-pay prices this hospital publishes, what they include, and how they compare nearby.

Prices checked 9 Nov 2026

  • Treatments with prices

    1

    Cataract surgery

  • Health regulator rating

    Good

    CQC, report published September 2026

    For the whole hospital, not one treatment.

  • Nearest other hospital with prices

    15 miles

    Practice Plus Group Hospital, Devizes, Devizes

In short

The Ridgeway Hospital is a Circle Health Group hospital in Swindon (SN4 9DD). On 9 November 2026 it published self-pay prices for 1 of the treatments we cover: cataract surgery.

The Care Quality Commission rated the hospital Good overall, in a report published 16 September 2026. A CQC rating describes the whole hospital, not a particular treatment.

Its prices appear on 1 local price comparison page on this site, alongside other hospitals and the NHS waiting figures for each area.

Cataract surgery

  • The Ridgeway Hospital

    Swindon

    £4,285Cataract removal & lens implant - one eye

    What’s included: Circle’s guide price. Circle says it covers your first consultation, the operation and care after you go home (first consultation £250). Not included: tests before treatment. Circle confirms the final price after your consultation.

    Price breakdown, as published
    Published price breakdown, The Ridgeway Hospital
    StageIn the price?As published
    Initial consultationIncluded£250
    Diagnostic InvestigationsNot includedNot included
    Main treatmentIncluded£4,035 · Included
    Post discharge careIncludedIncluded · Included
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    Health regulator (CQC) rating: Good · checked 9 Nov 2026

Each price is what The Ridgeway Hospital published on the date shown, not a quote. Ask for a written, itemised price for your situation.

How its prices compare

Cataract surgery: published at £4,285, £1,290 above the UK median of £2,995. 1 other hospital within 25 miles publishes a price, and it is lower. The published breakdown includes a first consultation at £250; diagnostic tests are listed as not included.

Around The Ridgeway Hospital

The nearest other hospitals publishing self-pay prices are Practice Plus Group Hospital, Devizes (Practice Plus Group, Devizes, 15 miles).

Nearest towns and cities by straight-line distance: Wroughton (0.2 miles, population 7,280), Swindon (3.0 miles, population 183,680), Stratton St Margaret (4.5 miles, population 20,690), Royal Wootton Bassett (4.9 miles, population 13,005), Broad Blunsdon (5.9 miles, population 6,505).

NHS waiting lists for the same care near Wroughton: ophthalmology at Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: median 14.8 weeks waited, 26 over a year (August 2026).

Details

Address
Moormead Road, Wroughton, Swindon, SN4 9DD
Telephone
Not listed by CQC
Hospital group
Circle Health Group
CQC registration
1-128767148, registered 11 May 2011
CQC rating
Good, published 16 September 2026

Compare with other hospitals

Cataract surgery

Where these figures come from

Prices: from The Ridgeway Hospital’s own price pages on the date shown. We store the price, the hospital’s own label, what its page says is included, the link and the date.

Comparisons use other hospitals’ published self-pay prices within 25 miles (straight line) and across the UK, all checked on the same date.

NHS figures describe time waited so far by everyone on the list. Source: NHS England, Consultant-led Referral to Treatment Waiting Times, August 2026 data, published 8 October 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: NHS England, Monthly Diagnostics Waiting Times and Activity (DM01), August 2026 data, published 8 October 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Registration details and rating: CQC register (HSCA Active Locations, downloaded 9 November 2026), Open Government Licence v3.0.

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