Kendal NHS Treatment Centre
About the centre
Kendal NHS Treatment Centre is a modern, purpose built facility
located in South Cumbria. Situated within the Westmorland General
Hospital, the Centre has been designed to combine an exceptional
standard of patient care facilities with the technical equipment
and facilities that modern medicine demands.
This Centre has 13 beds, with a mix of one or
two bedded rooms, plus six single day case rooms, three consulting
rooms and a brand new operating theatre and endoscopy room. It
provides NHS facilities for Orthopaedics and General
Surgery enabling NHS patients to receive quick and free of
charge access to treatments.
Kendal NHS Treatment Centre is operated, on
behalf of the NHS, by Ramsay Health Care UK which owns over 30
hospitals in the UK. Ramsay Health Care was established in
Australia in 1964 and has grown to become a global hospital group
operating over 100 hospitals and day surgery facilities across
Australia, the United Kingdom and Indonesia.
Ramsay Health Care is well respected in the
health care industry for operating quality, private hospitals and
for our excellent record in hospital management and patient care.
These features help to attract leading health care practitioners to
work in our facilities.
Staff Experience
Our consultants are employed by Ramsay
Health Care UK and they work in partnership with the Treatment
Centre. The surgeons and anaesthetists are registered with the GMC
and are on the specialist register. All medical staff are bound by
Ramsay Health Care UK’s Clinical Governance regulations. Clinical
practice is regularly reviewed.
Current waiting list times
| Procedure |
Outpatient Appt |
Procedure Appt |
|
Orthopaedics
|
1-2 weeks |
3-4 weeks
|
|
General Surgery
|
1-2 weeks |
3-4 weeks
|
|
Endoscopy
|
1-2 weeks |
3-4 weeks
|