KIMS Hospital
KIMS Hospital is a private hospital in Maidstone that treats privately insured, self-funding and NHS patients.
It has 99 beds, five theatres, two endoscopy suites and two cardiac labs. There are also 17 consultation/examination rooms, An imaging facility containing MRI, CT, X-Ray and Ultrasound Scanners. The Hospital also contains the only private Nuclear Medicine department in Kent.
KIMS Hospital's primary specialities are Orthopaedic Surgery, Cardiology, Gynaecology, Breast Surgery & General Surgery.
The Hospital was built by VINCI Construction UK at a cost of £90 million which opened in 2014.
In April 2015 only 25% of the beds were occupied.[1] It is the first private tertiary-level hospital in Kent.
The chairman is Peter Goddard, a lawyer who started the project with Dr Phyllis Holt, Franz Dickmann and his son James in 2006.
It was intended to provide highly specialised services, some of which were not available elsewhere in the county, but the extreme range of services offered resulted in very low numbers of some procedures. The Care Quality Commission inspected it in September 2015 and complained that it website offered "a huge range of services and treatments that it cannot provide safely and creates an image that is inaccurate,” rating its safety standards as inadequate, though it was rated “good” for caring, responsiveness and effectiveness, and its radiology and catheterisation laboratories were praised.[2]
References
- ↑ "Bosses at KIMS Hospital in Maidstone say private hospitals support the NHS, which is a 'political football'". Kent Online. 30 April 2015. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
- ↑ "Pioneering private hospital ‘requires improvement’, says CQC". Health Service Journal. 28 April 2016. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
Coordinates: 51°17′10″N 0°33′24″E / 51.28615°N 0.55662°E