Statement of Purpose
Kingston Hospital NHS Trust Statement of Purpose
Details of Service Provider
Kingston Hospital NHS Trust Galsworthy Road Kingston Upon Thames Surrey KT2 7QB
Registered Manager
Kate Grimes, Chief Executive kate.grimes@kingstonhospital.nhs.uk 020 8934 2814
Legal Status of the Service Provider
The Kingston Hospital NHS Trust (the Trust) is a statutory body which came into existence on December 1990 under The Kingston Hospital NHS Trust (Establishment) Order 1990 No 2420, (the Establishment Order).
Location of Activities
Kingston Hospital NHS Trust, Galsworthy Road, Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey, KT2 7QB
Regulated Activities at Kingston Hospital NHS Trust
- Treatment of disease, disorder or injury
- Surgical procedure
- Diagnostic and screening procedures
- Maternity and midwifery services
- Termination of pregnancies
- Family Planning clinics
- Assessment or medical treatment for persons detained under the 1983 (Mental Health) Act
Location of Activities
Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton Lane, Roehampton, London, SW15 5PN
Regulated Activities at Queen Mary’s Hospital
- Surgical procedures*
- Diagnostic and screening procedures*
* These registered activities are carried out through the provision of assisted conception service at Queen Mary’s Hospital.
Aims and objectives of the service
Kingston Hospital is a district general hospital based approximately 12 miles from central London. The hospital supports some 320,000 people in the surrounding area including the boroughs of Kingston, Richmond, Roehampton, Putney and East Elmbridge. The Trust provides assisted conception services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Roehampton.
The Trust has approximately 520 beds and directly employs some 2,600 staff with another 300 staff employed by contractors but working on behalf of the Trust. It is located on one site in Kingston upon Thames.
The Trust provides a full range of diagnostic and treatment services and has a national reputation for innovative developments in healthcare, particularly in 'patient-focused' care across its services including emergency, day surgery and maternity services.
The Trust is committed to quality healthcare and will continue to improve its facilities, working hard to ensure that it has built up a wide range of clinical services.
Range of service users’ needs which services are intended to meet
KHT provides a full range of secondary care services, including accident and emergency medicine and maternity, meeting the needs of the whole of the local population. KHT provides both emergency and elective care on a short and medium term basis. It also provides a full range of support services such as occupational and physiotherapy and provides rehabilitation services for stroke patients. Some outpatient clinics and the assisted conception service are delivered at Queen Mary’s Hospital. Arrangements are in place to make specialist referrals to St George’s Hospital as necessary.
Kinds of services provided for the purposes of carrying out the regulated activities
- Accident and emergency
- Admissions
- Anaesthetic services
- Anticoagulation
- Assisted Conception (at St Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton)
- Audiology
- Blood Tests
- Cancer services (including Sir William Rous unit)
- Care of the elderly
- Cellular pathology
- Children’s outpatients department
- Children’s services including ambulatory care
- Chronic pain
- Clinical haematology
- Day Surgery
- Dermatology
- Diabetes
- Dieticians
- Ear, nose and throat
- Early pregnancy and acute gynaecology service
- Endocrinology
- Endoscopy services
- Gastroenterology
- General Surgery including plastic surgery, upper GI, vascular surgery, colorectal surgery and breast surgery
- Gynaecology
- Health Records
- Intensive care unit/High dependency unit
- Lower urinary tract symptoms assessment
- Maple children’s centre - community nursing team
- Maternity
- Medical assessment unit
- Microbiology
- Neonatal Intensive Care
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Occupational Health
- Occupational therapy
- Ophthalmology and Ophthalmology accident and emergency services
- Oral and maxillofacial surgery
- Orthodontics
- Orthopaedics
- Outpatients booking service
- Paediatric Oncology shared care unit
- Paediatric oncology nurse specialists
- Paediatrics – outreach nursing teams (home care)
- Paediatrics – diabetes clinical nurse specialist
- Paediatric – continence clinical nurse specialists
- Pain Management service
- Palliative care
- Pathology: including microbiology, haematology and biochemistry
- Patient transport
- Pharmacy
- Physiotherapy
- Radiology: x-rays, ultrasound, CT, interventional radiology and MRI scanning
- Respiratory
- Restorative dentistry
- Rheumatology
- Sexual health and HIV services
- Speech and language therapy
- Stroke medicine
- Surgical appliances
- Urodynamics
- Urology
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