Care UK has invested more than £3.5 million in its NHS secondary care services over the last year.
A £2m investment at Peninsula NHS Treatment Centre, which received a CQC Outstanding report, saw a third operating theatre and new endoscopy suite developed. The new facilities are enabling the hospital to carry out an additional 1,000 NHS operations a year and more than 3,500 endoscopy procedures.
At Barlborough NHS Treatment Centre, in Derbyshire, an investment of £750,000 in the new mobile MRI scanner unit saw capacity at the centre increased as well as providing a mobile MRI service that can be taken out to more rural areas of Lincolnshire.
At St Mary’s NHS Treatment Centre in Portsmouth and at Havant Diagnostic Service a £660,000 investment saw state-of-the-art digital x-ray equipment. Hospital director Penny Daniels said: “Digital radiography is the latest technology for x-rays, offering advanced image processing and greater contrast, detail and image quality. This will ensure consultants have the most accurate images with which to diagnose a patient’s condition.”
In Rochdale, the ophthalmology team that in May became the first ever to receive an Outstanding grade from the CQC created a new mobile macular service that will help to save the sight of people across the North West. The £300,000 investment will see the service, that has a 48-hour referral-to-treatment pathway, support patients across Greater Manchester, Preston, South Ribble, Glossop and Tameside.
Finally, in Gillingham, Kent, an investment of £165,000 has seen a set of improvements designed to increase patient safety and dignity at Care UK’s Will Adams NHS Treatment Centre. Improvements include more single-sex treatment areas and additional consultation rooms, as well as a new recovery suite where patients recovering from a general anaesthetic will be supported by a medical team before they return to the ward.
Hospital director Kerry White said: ““Maintaining our patients’ dignity throughout their treatment is very important to our team and we believe these improvements will make people feel even more comfortable and secure. The expansion of the consultation rooms also marks our further progress in improving and increasing our services for the benefit of people across the Medway area.”
