Updated 6 August 2025
Castle Vale Renal Unit is a haemodialysis service for people in the local community. It provides dialysis both on site or to some people in their own home. See below for our report on the service which we assessed on site on 28 April 2025. This was the first assessment of this service and it has been rated as good.
Updated 22 January 2025
We undertook an assessment of Castle Vale Renal Unit on 28 April 2025.
The service delivers haemodialysis for approximately 175 people and had provided 22,734 dialysis sessions between March 2024 and April 2025. The service provides morning and afternoon dialysis sessions 6 days a week, with an additional 3 twilight sessions each week. There were 36 dialysis bays on the unit.
In addition, there was a home haemodialysis service where 29 people were supported to undertake their own dialysis at home.
We carried out the on-site assessment on 28 April 2025. The assessment was undertaken as this service had not been inspected before. We rated Castle Vale Renal Unit as good overall and in safe, effective, responsive and well led. We rated them outstanding in caring.