Archived: BMI The Sandringham Hospital

Updated 25 May 2017

BMI The Sandringham Hospital is operated by BMI Healthcare Limited and is part of a network of 59 hospitals across England, Scotland and Wales.

The hospital opened in 1990 as a purpose built hospital. It is a private hospital based in Kings Lynn which is adjacent to a local acute NHS hospital.

The hospital provides outpatient consultations and a range of surgical procedures for adults aged 18 and over, to privately funded, insured and NHS patients. Nobody under the age of 18 is treated at BMI The Sandringham Hospital.

The hospital provides private, insured, self-pay and NHS services. NHS funded care is mostly through the NHS electronic referral system.

There are administration and management teams on site.

The hospital has had a registered manager in post for three years.

Updated 25 May 2017

We rated outpatients and diagnostic imaging services as good overall. We rated outpatients and diagnostic imaging services as good for being safe, caring, responsive and well-led.

We inspected, but did not rate the service for effectiveness.

Updated 25 May 2017

Surgery was the main activity of the hospital. Where our findings on surgery also apply to other services, we do not repeat the information but cross-refer to the surgery section.

We rated this service as good because it was effective, caring, responsive and well-led, although it requires improvement for safety.