Vascular Ultrasound Department, Frimley Park Hospital

Vascular Ultrasound Department, Frimley Hospital is operated by Southern Ultrasound Ltd. The department primarily runs vascular ultrasound clinics at Frimley Park Hospital with satellite clinics at Heatherwood Hospital and Aldershot Hospital. Facilities at the Frimley Park Hospital site includes two scanning rooms each with its own ultrasound scanner.

We inspected this department using our comprehensive inspection methodology. We carried out a short notice announced inspection on 29 January 2020.

To get to the heart of patients’ experiences of care and treatment, we ask the same five questions of all services: are they safe, effective, caring, responsive to people's needs, and well-led? Where we have a legal duty to do so we rate services’ performance against each key question as outstanding, good, requires improvement or inadequate.

Throughout the inspection, we took account of what people told us and how the provider understood and complied with the Mental Capacity Act 2005.