06 March 2023
During a routine inspection
Burcot Hall Hospital is sister hospital to The Pines Hospital and operated by Transform Healthcare Holdings Limited. The 2 locations are known under Transform Hospital Group, however, our report relates only to Burcot Hall Hospital for the purpose of this inspection.
It is in the town of Bromsgrove, Worcestershire and the premises stand imposingly in a rural location. The hospital has been converted to provide waiting areas, consultation rooms, treatment rooms wards and 4 theatres.
The hospital procedures are day case, overnight and some 2 night stay procedures. They have 2 wards consisting of 13 beds on the lower ground floor and 9 beds on the top floor in the event that surgery required an overnight stay or readmission. The hospital provides a range of services including cosmetic surgery, weight loss surgery, orthopaedic and general surgery. We inspected surgery, outpatients and diagnostic imaging as part of a routine schedule of inspections.
We carried out the unannounced inspection on 6 March 2023.
To get to the heart of patients' experience 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.
The main service provided by this hospital was surgery. Where our findings on surgery, for example, management arrangements, also apply to other services, we do not repeat information but cross-refer to the surgery service level.
The hospital has had a new registered manager in post since October 2022.
The main services provided by the hospital are cosmetic surgery and weight loss surgery performed under either general or local anaesthetic and x-ray procedures as part of the surgery pathway to ensure correct placements post procedure.
No services are carried out on patients under the age of 18 years.