Chaucer Hospital

Ratings

• Overall

  Good

• Safe

  Good

• Effective

  Good

• Caring

  Good

• Responsive

  Good

• Well-led

  Good

Our view of the service

Chaucer Hospital is an independent hospital located in Canterbury, Kent and is operated by Circle Health Group. The hospital primarily serves the communities of Canterbury, Faversham and Dover. It also accepts patient referrals from outside these areas. Chaucer Hospital provides surgery, endoscopy, medical care including oncology, outpatients and diagnostic imaging services to people over the age of 18. Specialties include orthopaedics, gynaecology, urology, gastroenterology, ophthalmology, and cosmetic surgery.

Care and treatment are provided to NHS-funded patients and people who have private medical insurance or who self-fund. The hospital has 35 beds with en-suites spread over 2 wards. Facilities include 2 main theatres, an accredited endoscopy suite, an accredited oncology suite, outpatients with 1 minor procedure room and diagnostic facilities.

The hospital has magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), Computed Tomography (CT), ultrasound, X-ray and digital mammography (a digital image of the breast) within its imaging department. The hospital also offers services such as physiotherapy and on-site pharmacy and restaurant.

The assessment service groups provided are medical care (including older people’s care), diagnostic imaging, outpatients and surgery . This assessment looked at surgery following information of concern. We rated surgery good.

The rating of surgery has been combined with the ratings of the other services from the last inspections. See our previous reports to get a full picture of all the other services at Chaucer Hospital. The rating of Chaucer Hospital remains good.

Following this assessment our overall ratings for safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led have remained good.