Updated 15 November 2018
Spire Hull and East Riding Hospital is operated by Spire Healthcare Limited. The hospital opened in 1986. It is a private hospital situated in Anlaby, located in the west of Hull. Spire Hull and East Riding Hospital primarily serves the communities of the East Riding of Yorkshire and Hull. It also accepts patient referrals outside of this catchment area.
Facilities at the hospital site include a ward, an operating suite with four operating theatres all with laminar flow. The suite also offers an integral, accredited sterile services department and two recovery areas consisting of nine bays in total. Previously the hospital had a level two critical care facility. At the time of our inspection the hospital was not undertaking any level two care. The former critical unit had been reconfigured and was being used as an extended recovery unit.
In 2014, the company acquired Spire Hesslewood Clinic, which is located approximately one and a half miles south of Spire Hull and East Riding Hospital and is operated as a satellite to Spire Hull and East Riding. The clinic is under the same management structure. The two sites also have a combined data collection process and clinical dashboard, meaning that data is not available at a site level for Spire Hull and East Riding Hospital or Spire Hesslewood Clinic.
The two sites are registered separately with CQC.
The hospital provided outpatient and inpatient services for surgery, including cosmetic surgery and medical care including cardiology, endoscopy and oncology. Patients were cared for as NHS, insured and privately funded patients. Services were provided to children and adults of all ages for outpatients and three years old and above for inpatient care (children under three are treated in dermatology outpatient’s clinics, however, no interventional treatment is given).
The service had 15 outpatient consulting rooms across two sites with a treatment room at each location and phlebotomy on the main site along with pathology services, an imaging department with MRI and CT, cardiac service.
There was also an outpatient physiotherapy department with five consulting rooms and a fully equipped gym on the Lowfield site at Spire Hull and East Riding Hospital. An ENT outreach clinic was provided at the Diadem clinic on a weekly basis.
The hospital’s ward has 34 single rooms, all with en suite facilities, and a specifically designed suite which consists of three, four and five bedded bays offering single sex accommodation. There is a day case suite which has four bays.
There is also a restaurant providing food for patients, staff and visitors.
Surgical outpatients included; breast care, ear, nose and throat, cosmetic surgery, orthopaedic surgery, general surgery (including weight loss surgery) ophthalmology, audiology. Medical outpatient consultations were available for a wide range of conditions such as; heart conditions, dermatology, pain and migraine. A health and wellbeing service for men and women was also available.
The physiotherapy department offered a wide range of services, including assessment and treatment of patients attending the hospital for surgery, a variety of therapies including pain management and a sports injury service. Self-paying patients could also refer themselves for physiotherapy assessment and treatment. The physiotherapy department was open from 8:00 – 18:00 for outpatients. The department offered flexible appointments for outpatients outside of these times and at weekends if requested.
Diagnostic imaging at Spire Hull provided various services such as x-ray, ultrasound, Computerised Tomography (CT), Magnetic Reasoning Imaging (MRI), Fluoroscopy, Angiography and Mammography. The service was previously inspected in September 2015. Since the previous inspection the service had implemented a MRI and CT scanning unit in the department.
The hospital has been inspected five times, the most recent inspection took place in September 2015. Following that inspection, the hospital was rated requires improvement and we issued requirement notices to ensure compliance with regulations Regulation 12 HSCA (RA) Regulations 2014 Safe care and treatment, Regulation 15 HSCA Regulations 2014 Premises and equipment and Regulation 17 HSCA (RA) Regulations 2014 Good governance. The hospital provided an action plan, which was regularly reviewed by CQC, to provide us with assurance that the hospital had met the requirements.
We inspected this hospital as part of our independent hospital inspection programme. The inspection was conducted using the Care Quality Commission comprehensive inspection methodology. For this inspection, the team inspected the following five core services at Hull and East Riding hospital:
- Medical Care
- Surgery
- Diagnostic Imaging
- Children and young people
- Outpatients
The hospital had a registered manager, Chris Harrison, who had been in post for approximately three years.