08 November 2019
During a routine inspection
Discovery Ultrasound Kent & Sussex Limited is operated by Discovery Ultrasound Kent & Sussex Limited. The service has diagnostic facilities and offers pregnancy scans to self-referring private patients. The service provides fertility scans to aid conception and in conjunction with assisted conception. The service also provides baby bonding ultrasound scans to pregnant women and their friends and family.
The service employs one sonographer who is also the registered manager and a receptionist who is not based in the office. Another sonographer has a flexible contract to carry out a number of ultrasound lists every month.
We inspected this service using our comprehensive inspection methodology. We carried out the announced inspection on 08 November 2019. The inspection was announced in advance as the service opened depending on patient need.
To get to the heart of patients’ experiences of care and treatment, we ask the same five questions of all services: are they safe, effective, caring, responsive to people's needs, and well-led? Where we have a legal duty to do so we rate services’ performance against each key question as outstanding, good, requires improvement or inadequate.
Throughout the inspection, we took account of what people told us and how the provider understood and complied with the Mental Capacity Act 2005.