Blandford Community Hospital

Updated 25 May 2017

Standard Health Ltd provides and an outpatient service one day a month at Blandford Community Hospital which is the host hospital. The service was registered in 2011. The registered manager and provider is Mr Gorav Datta. The service primarily serves the communities of the south coast of England. It also accepts patients’ referrals from outside this area.

We last inspected the service in October 2013 and the provider was meeting all four standards they were inspected against.

Updated 25 May 2017

Standard Health Ltd provides minor day case procedures and an outpatient service one day a month at Blandford Community Hospital, the host hospital. This report will relate to the outpatient core service which we have inspected. We spoke with the provider who is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon and sole person providing the regulated activities. We also spoke with seven staff from the host hospital. These included registered nurses, health care assistants, reception and business support staff. Staff from the host hospital will be referred to as the staff throughout this report.

Updated 25 May 2017

There were 48 outpatient attendances recorded in the reporting period (July 2015- June 2016). All the patients were NHS funded. We inspected the core service of outpatients. Other services such as radiology and diagnostic imaging was provided under a service level agreement with the local trust.

The service did not treat children and anyone under the age of 18 years.