- Independent hospital
BPAS - Birmingham Central
Assessment report published 13 October 2025
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Ratings
Our view of the service
BPAS Birmingham Central is operated by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS).
The service provided termination of pregnancy as a single speciality service. Although the service was based in Birmingham it was commissioned to provide a service to women across the West Midlands and wider Midlands area.
BPAS Birmingham Central offered consultation, medical assessment including ultrasound scanning, and early medical abortion for women with a pregnancy of less than 10 weeks gestation. The service did not provide surgical termination of pregnancy, but staff could make an onwards referral for women who requested this.
Treatment options were determined by the gestation of pregnancy and patient choice. As part of the care pathway, women were offered sexual health screening and contraception.
The service operated a TeleMedical Hub, this was a remote/digital early medical abortion service. This part of the service was available for women who wanted to manage their termination of pregnancy at home and had a pregnancy of less than 10 weeks gestation.
From March 2024 to March 2025, the service completed 14,327 early medical abortions.
This assessment was carried out because of risk. We received 3 notifications regarding early medical termination of pregnancy resulting in the delivery of fetuses with a longer gestation than expected.
A team of 1 CQC inspector, and 1 specialist advisor visited the service on 29 April 2025. We spoke with 11 staff (including midwives, nurses, managers, and administrative staff), and 5 women. We looked at 10 sets of patients notes and observed 3 episodes of care in the telemedical hub. We found there had been improvements in management of incidents and other governance processes in the telemedical call centre and clinic since our last assessment in 2022.