In order to
increase capacity of the hospital to enable staff to treat NHS patients in
addition to those who have chosen to receive private treatment, Spire Liverpool
Hospital have deployed a mobile operating theatre from Vanguard Healthcare to
bolster the capacity of its existing facilities, with visible advantages to
on-going patient care.
Spire
Liverpool Hospital, previously known as Lourdes Hospital, is a highly-rated private hospital offering a comprehensive
range of medical and surgical
treatments
to patients from
Merseyside and the Northwest of England.
The hospital welcomes patients with private
medical insurance, those who are paying for their own treatments, and also
offers some services to patients on behalf of the NHS. Treating thousands of
patients every year, the hospital has recently faced an upsurge in demand. To
help ensure a smooth flow of patients and a continuation of specialist
services, the hospital director, Liz Cousins, recently made the decision to
call in a state-of-the-art Vanguard Healthcare mobile operating theatre to help
boost capacity.
The mobile
unit – a laminar flow operating theatre complete with anaesthetic room,
recovery area, utility areas and a staff changing room – is connected to the
main hospital via a link corridor and is providing additional capacity for
patients, enabling the specialist teams and consultants to provide “continued
and convenient access to treatment including orthopaedics, ophthalmics,
urology, gynaecology, ENT, and other general surgical procedures that we
regularly carry out at the hospital”, explained Mrs Cousins.
“The
Vanguard mobile operating theatre at Spire Liverpool Hospital is providing a
‘seamless’ service, as it is directly attached to the hospital,” said Mrs
Cousins, “and already the consultant and patient feedback has been extremely
positive. We’re delighted to have adopted a strategy which has enabled us to
continue to carry out our regular treatments and procedures conveniently on
site and ensure that we continue to provide a consistently high quality of
patient care with no adverse affect on the patient experience.”
Senior
consultant and orthopaedic surgeon, John Davidson,from Spire Liverpool Hospital has also been
delighted with the service, explaining: “The new theatre that has been
installed at Spire has greatly enhanced our ability to deliver specialist
surgical services. Having an extra ultra clean air theatre means we can double
our capacity for putting in joint replacements and artificial material into
patients, minimising the risk of infection.
“This
additional theatre, whilst delivered as a mobile unit, is state-of-the-art and
now fully integrated into the hospital’s theatre suite. We are very pleased
that Spire Hospitals have managed to increase our capacity so that patients do
not have to wait for their surgical procedures.”
It wasn’t
just staff at the private hospital who have been impressed by the deployment of
this innovative service, patients have been so impressed with the facilities
that very few even realised they were on a mobile unit until they were told
afterwards. One such patient, Mrs Julie Chorley, said: “When I first arrived at
the hospital for my operation, I was greeted by the surgeon and anesthetist who
came to explain the procedure; I was having a partial knee replacement. I
entered the operating theatre totally unaware that it was a mobile unit; it was
very modern, bright, and clean and I really felt at ease. The anesthetists who
were there also made me feel completely at ease; they were so nice. I was
definitely impressed with everyone involved and I would choose Spire Liverpool
Hospital over any other hospital if I had to have another operation."
With a track
record of more than ten years as the leading provider of outsourced mobile
facilities in the UK health sector, together with a diverse and highly
qualified base of staff – many of whom are former NHS executives and clinicians
- Vanguard Healthcare has developed a range of solutions, specifically tailored
to meet the requirements of both public and private hospitals.
Private hospital news : 10 February 2012
