BMI Healthcare

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BMI Healthcare is a British healthcare company. BMI Healthcare is the UKs largest private Hospital group. It runs 59 hospitals nation-wide, all offering private healthcare, most with facilities for paediatric surgery too. The Meriden Hospital situated in the grounds of University Hospital Coventry, opened in 2006, is the newest hospital in the company.

BMI hospitals perform more complex surgery than any other independent private health care provider in the country. Handling over 250,000 inpatient and 1,000,000 outpatient visits each year, nearly half the procedures undertaken for patients are of a major or complex nature.

As a matter of policy, BMI Healthcare hospitals undertake all of their work to at least the standards set under relevant regulations and guidelines, which are at least the same standards as those required of the NHS. Each hospital has a doctor on-site 24 hours a day to support patient care an d nursing, clinical and support team plus diagnostic and treatment technology relevant to the patient procedures undertaken.

BMI Healthcare hospitals work with the NHS under contract, to share facilities and equipment, undertaking operations under contract. They provide ten private hospitals and private wings within the grounds of NHS Trust hospitals. Those services to the NHS use the limited capacity available after meeting the needs of the hospitals' primary market - private patients and their consultants - up to 10% of patient volume.

BMI recently purchased seven hospitals from Nuffield Health to build on their existing BMI Healthcare business over the coming months.

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