Updated 19 July 2022
The Bromsgrove Clinic is run by The Droitwich Knee Clinic. The service has one registered location, and it has been registered since 2015 for treatment of disease, disorder or injury and diagnostic and screening procedures. The registered manager is a consultant surgeon and has been in post since 16 August 2019. They took on the role of the nominated individual on 24 June 2019.
The service is a small private clinic that provides specialist consultations for knee and shoulder complaints. It involves a one-stop service for patients with x-ray, ultrasound and magnetic resonance imagery (MRI) at the premises for further investigations. It also provides a physiotherapy service. There is no inpatient facility at this premises.
The clinic premises included a large reception and waiting area, two outpatient consultation rooms with an examination room to each, a physiotherapy room, an MRI room and an X-ray room. The ultrasound was portable and able to be used in the outpatient consultation areas. There were other rooms within the premises, but these were not leased by The Bromsgrove Clinic.
The registered manager occasionally rented their second consultation room to two other consultants working on practicing privileges. One of these consultants was a spinal consultant and the other was a foot and ankle consultant.
The Bromsgrove Clinic is consultant led and is open on reduced hours to work around the consultant’s NHS commitments. The clinic is open on Monday evenings, all day Wednesdays and on Friday evenings.
The main service provided by The Bromsgrove Clinic was outpatient services. Where our findings on outpatients also apply to other services, for example, management arrangements we do not repeat the information but cross-refer to the outpatients’ service.
From May 2021 to April 2022, The Bromsgrove Clinic had 1,491 outpatient attendances of which 903 were for outpatient consultations and 588 were for physiotherapy appointments. For the same period there were 683 diagnostic and screening attendances of which 374 were for MRI, 281 were for X-ray and 28 were for ultrasound.
Most patients at the clinic were adults. However, the service did see a small number of children between May 2021 and April 2022. Children accounted for 3.5% (52) of all outpatient attendances of which 28 were for outpatient consultations and 24 were for physiotherapy, and 1.5% (10) of all diagnostic attendances of which all were for MRI.
We have not inspected The Bromsgrove Clinic before.