Nuffield Health picked up the award for Private Hospital Group of the Year for the third time at the Health Investor Awards 2019. The award is designed to recognise outstanding contribution to healthcare over the past 12 months, through innovation and excellence in healthcare products and services.
Nuffield Health differentiates its approach through personalised, connected services spanning the health and wellbeing continuum. By connecting its health and wellbeing services, Nuffield Health are pioneering a unique form of personalised healthcare.
Nuffield Health have maintained a focus on continuous quality improvement and embedding a culture of transparency and learning across the charity. At the end of 2017, Nuffield Health reorganised and implemented a new Quality and Assurance team – a statement of how highly Nuffield Health values quality outcomes and ensuring a clearer, more robust line of governance to create the ‘voice of assurance’ at an executive level.
David McNair, Nuffield Health Bournemouth’s Hospital Director, said: “To win this accolade for three consecutive years is an amazing achievement and a credit to the Nuffield Health team. Nuffield Health Bournemouth Hospital was the first private hospital set up by the charity in 1957 and throughout our history we have continually strived to bring innovative procedures to Dorset, including the Mako robotic-arm assisted surgery for hips and knees and the cardiac catheter suite. We’re delighted to be recognised as leaders in healthcare excellence once again.”
In accepting the award, Chief Executive Officer, Steve Gray said: “It’s great to be recognised three years in a row as leaders in healthcare excellence. This reflects our teams’ consistent hard work, relentless focus on patient safety, quality and outcomes and their commitment to be the best for our patients.”
Nuffield Health was selected from a finalist group of five private hospital groups within the UK.
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