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Quality and standards
As the largest independent provider of acute surgical services, BMI Healthcare
has been at the forefront of the drive to improve clinical and non-clinical
service standards across the independent sector, calling for and contributing
to new regulation that was introduced in 2002.
Standards for quality and best practice evolve continuously. We constantly
strive to achieve and exceed compliance with those standards in each health care
and management practice area.
The National Care Standards Act 2000 and
Private & Voluntary Healthcare Regulations that were implemented in 2002
can only strengthen the independent health care sector and increase public
support for it. Every independent and public sector hospital is required to
demonstrate that it has the appropriate, fully trained and operational human
and physical resources to :
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Fully support patients and their treatment across the clinical
and medical services it provides |
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Match or exceed current best practice |
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Provide robust audit and reporting against the standards.
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Post-Operative Infection rates
The figures expressed on our website reflect post-operative infection that
patients have acquired whilst in hospital, and include MRSA and MSSA.
BMI reported only 1 case of MRSA bacteraemia per 147,615 bed days between
April and September 2006. This means you are nearly 25 times less likely
to contract MRSA than in the NHS, who reported 1.69 cases per 10,000 bed
days during the same period.
The anticipated infection rate for surgery in the UK is 2% (shown as a red line on the chart).
BMI Healthcare's hospitals are consistently well below this level
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