Archived: Horder Healthcare Seaford

Updated 4 April 2019

Medical Imaging Partnership (MIP) provides a diagnostic imaging service from Horder Healthcare Seaford. The service opened in 2014. Patient referrals for X-ray were accepted from across East Sussex. It also accepts patient referrals from outside this area.

The service had not been inspected prior to this inspection.

The diagnostic imaging service delivered at Horder Healthcare Seaford was provided from a single storey outpatient consulting and physiotherapy facility. The service had a registered manager in post since 2016. The registered manager was the manager for four other Medical Imaging Partnership locations and was supported by a deputy. There was also a radiology clinical manager at the Seaford site. The service had one X-ray room and was registered to provide the following regulated activities:

• Diagnostic and screening procedures.

Updated 4 April 2019

Medical Imaging Partnership (MIP) provides a diagnostic imaging service from Horder Healthcare Seaford. The service has one X-ray room, consultation room and waiting area. Horder Healthcare Seaford opened in September 2014 as a consulting and physiotherapy centre with an X-ray room to provide a one stop clinic with consultant orthopaedic surgeons. The diagnostic imaging service provided by Medical Imaging Partnership accepts patient referrals for X-ray under contracts with the Horder Centre, the Sussex musculoskeletal (MSK) service (a local pathway for MSK patients from East Sussex), and other private referrers.

Updated 4 April 2019

Overall, the care provided by the service was safe, effective, caring, responsive and well led.

• Patients were happy with the care they received and found the staff to be caring and compassionate.
• Staff were well trained and supported and worked according to agreed national guidance to ensure patients received the most appropriate care. There were sufficient staff, with appropriate skills and expertise to manage the service.
• Patients were able to access the service at times that suited them and also had access to same day X-rays following consultation. Individual needs of patients were considered.
• The service had clear leadership and governance both locally and within Medical Imaging Partnership.