- Independent hospital
BPAS - Bournemouth
Assessment report published 3 February 2026
Contents
Ratings - Termination of pregnancy
Our view of the service
BPAS Bournemouth is operated by British Pregnancy Advisory Service also known as BPAS. The service provides a termination of pregnancy service in Bournemouth, Dorset. The service is provided from a building leased by the service and provides termination of pregnancy as a single speciality service.
On the 8th of October we carried out an inspection of the termination of pregnancy service at BPAS- Bournemouth. We inspected the service to ensure changes made following their compliance with section 29A warning notice had been sustained.
We inspected all the quality statements across safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led key questions.
The service also operates a Telemedicine Hub, which provides a telephone consultation and remote early medical abortion services referred to by BPAS as ‘Pills by Post’. This service is available for women over 16 years of age and for medical termination of pregnancy up to nine weeks and six days
We spoke with 4 patients and reviewed 5 patient records including nursing notes, prescription charts and theatre records. We spoke with 12 staff which included: senior leaders, consultant surgeon, consultant anaesthetists, nurse practitioners, midwives and healthcare assistants.
We rated the service as good. The improvements made after the previous inspection had been embedded and sustained across the service.
The service protected people from avoidable harm and abuse. Staff assessed and mitigated risks. The provider had enough staff to ensure people’s safety and meet their needs.
Staff received clinical and safeguarding supervision in both the clinic and telemedicine services, however supervision targets were not consistently met between February and September 2025 due to staff sickness. The services had action plans in place and monitored progress via compliance dashboards. By September 2025, the clinic had reached 90% compliance, and the telemedicine hub had a plan to achieve full compliance by January 2026.
The clinic did not always meet the national standard of 90% of patients seen within 7 days from ‘contact to consultation’ and from ‘consultation to treatment’.
People's experience of this service
Feedback from patients was positive. Patients commented about the staff treating them with kindness and dignity and providing effective care and treatment. The service made reasonable adjustments for people with disabilities and communication difficulties.