Updated 6 September 2017
The Esperance Hospital is an independent hospital, which is part of BMI Healthcare Limited. It is situated in Eastbourne, East Sussex. The Esperance Hospital provides private and NHS surgical and outpatient and diagnostic services to residents of the Eastbourne area in East Sussex. It was the first private hospital in Eastbourne and opened in 1917 as a hospital run by the Sisters of Bordeaux having previously been a private residence and opened in 1962. The hospital primarily serves the communities of Eastbourne and the surrounding area. Surgical services cover a range of specialties including orthopaedics, ophthalmic (eye), cosmetics and general surgery. The hospital only treats adults aged 18 and over and does not provide services for children.
The theatre suite has three operating theatres, three recovery bays and two anaesthetic rooms. Theatre two has a laminar flow (a system that circulates filtered air to reduce the risk of airborne contamination). General, orthopaedic, and urology surgeries take place in this theatre. Theatre one does not have laminar flow. Gynaecology, urology, maxillofacial, ophthalmology (eye), ear, nose and throat and dermatology (treatment of skin conditions such as mole removal) procedures take place in theatre one. Both inpatient and day case patients recover from surgery on Devonshire ward. Devonshire ward has 16 single bedrooms, one double room and a two-bedded extended recovery unit. All patient bedrooms have ensuite bathroom facilities. The hospital also undertakes ambulatory care. Ambulatory care is surgery on an outpatient basis without admission onto a ward. Ambulatory care patients spent a short time in a single-sex recovery area after surgery before discharge home.
The hospital has been registered with the CQC to carry out the following regulated activities since 2011:
Diagnostic and screening procedures
Surgical procedures
Treatment of disease, disorder or injury
Additionally, it has been registered for the regulated activity of family planning since 2014.
The current registered manager has been in post since March 2017.