24/7 care from our dedicated nursing teams
We employ more than 1,000 registered nurses and midwives across our private hospitals and they are all carefully chosen for their qualifications and commitment to providing a very high level of care to our patients. We also have 100 ‘Bureau Nurses’ who are permanent staff but who are available to work across all of our hospitals at short notice and a temporary staffing bank of a further 1,000 nurses and midwives. We only engage agency nurses and midwives in exceptional circumstances and their use represents less than 10% of our nursing workforce compared to 25-40% in the NHS.
Due to the complex nature of our services, our hospitals provide the same level of care 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and our clinical staff need to support that. Most of our nurses and midwives work evening, weekend and night shifts so that if you are a patient you can expect continuity of care throughout your stay.
The standard of nursing in our hospitals is also closely monitored by our 'Aspects of Care' programme.
If you are interested in a nursing or midwifery career at one of our hospitals, please visit our careers web-site
Awards
The Wellington Hospital and London Bridge Hospital were recently voted into the top 100 places for nurses to work in the UK in a survey conducted by Nursing Times Magazine.
London Bridge Hospital was also voted winners of Best Nursing Practice in the Laing and Buisson Independent Healthcare Awards 2006.
"It is our commitment to providing excellent standards of care in a supportive professional environment, which sets us apart from our competitors"
Aspects of Care programme
To monitor the standard of nursing care across all our HCA hospitals, we have developed a clinical audit programme called 'Aspects of Care' which is our tailored version of the Department of Health Essence of Care programme. This allows us to continuously monitor the quality of the care across all of our hospitals using a range of measurements which are benchmarked between individual wards and hospitals so that we can learn from the best. As the programme title suggests, 'Aspects of Care' involves continuous audit of even the most basic essential elements of care such as the accurate recording of patient observations and fluid balance, which can have a big impact on clinical care.
