Vanguard Healthcare Solutions is to provide London’s Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, with which its has worked since 2006, with a mobile operating theatre and ward until the end of this year
Deployed together at Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, the units form a “satellite” treatment centre to serve NHS ophthalmic patients in North London, for whom the Moorfields’ main City Road facility is a considerable commute. Vanguard says the temporary day surgery unit offers the Trust a highly sophisticated environment near to its patients’ homes – part of its commitment to an ongoing outreach services programme – while a refurbishment of two floors at Northwick Park is completed to accommodate a permanent outreach facility. The units form a completely self-contained day surgery. Patients are admitted, prepared, operated on, received in recovery, and discharged, without requiring admission to the main facility.
