Top UK Cardiologists
We provide a safe, friendly and comfortable environment for patients and their families at what we recognise is a vulnerable time in their lives. Our services are designed and delivered to suit the patient, never forgetting that each person is individual and has specific emotional as well as clinical needs.
The Dorset Heart Clinic provides a best-of-both-worlds approach: access to expert care from top UK cardiologists and the very highest standards of patient service, combined with the confidence of being in an NHS hospital with the vast array of specialist equipment and resources often lacking in a private hospital – we deliver the highest standards of safety and quality without compromise.
Our Partnership
Dorset Heart Clinic is a formal partnership between The Royal Bournemouth and University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust and an independent company called Regent’s Park Healthcare. The partnership between the two organisations’ ensures that private patients receive the best-of-both-worlds: world-class specialist care and the very highest standard of service, together with the confidence of being in the NHS with its safety-net of services on hand. It also allows profits from the treatment of private patients to be re-invested back into frontline NHS care.
Our Mission
Our mission is to provide world-class cardiac services using a specialist model that leverages innovation, the best-in-knowledge clinical pathways and smarter operating processes.
Our specialist model re-engineers healthcare delivery and creates value in several ways.
Scale, standardisation and repetition of best practices increases operational efficiency. Staff are allowed to focus on doing a few things well as opposed to being stretched over multiple conditions. Concentrating efforts in our single specialty leads to a virtuous circle whereby we accumulate experience, improve safety, reduce cost and ultimately deliver better patient outcomes.
Our Leadership Team
We are a team of top-tier healthcare managers, doctors, scientists and allied health professionals who are committed to transforming care, expanding access, improving quality and reducing costs.
We take huge pride in our twenty-year track record of delivering cardiac care, through excellent service, efficient operations management, well trained staff, and uncompromising professionalism.
Care Quality Commission
The Dorset Heart Clinic is fully registered as an acute private hospital by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and bound by the Health and Social Care Act 2008. The CQC is the independent regulator of health and social care, hospitals and nursing homes. We received our CQC registration on 29/03/2017, and our Provider ID is 1-3550707911.
BUPA Quality Accreditation
BUPA healthcare quality inspectors have inspected the Dorset Heart Clinic and been awarded healthcare quality accreditation. This means the Dorset Heart Clinic is recognised by BUPA as a cardiac centre across its network of facilities. Dorset Heart Clinic is also accredited by all the other major and minor private medical insurance companies.
Medical Advisory Committee
The Dorset Heart Clinic has a Medical Advisory Committee (MAC) to ensure we achieve and maintain medical excellence across all our services. All medical practitioners at the Dorset Heart Clinic are part of the MAC, which offers guidance and advice on all areas of clinical practice and meets at regular quarterly intervals through the course of the year. The MAC has a robust clinical governance strategy with appointed leads for clinical governance and clinical audit.
Clinical Outcomes
The Dorset Heart Clinic is proud of the quality of healthcare it provides and its outcome data. As part of our ongoing commitment to quality standards in healthcare, we contribute to various databases including; The Private Healthcare Information Network, National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death and National Institute for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research. We also support external quality benchmarking from the following societies: British Cardiovascular Intervention Society, British Society of Echocardiography and British Cardiovascular Society.
