Flexible healthcare with a global reach
The ability to quickly provide additional sophisticated operating theatre capacity is enabling providers across the globe to flex their healthcare delivery, says Mary Smallbone, Managing Director Europe at Vanguard Healthcare
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unique brand of flexible healthcare delivery has arrived for the first time in the Dutch Caribbean island of Bonaire. This innovative UK technology was quickly
integrated into the local healthcare system with the emergency delivery of a baby boy within its first moments of use on the island. The baby was born on a state-of-the-art mobile
operating theatre, part of the world’s largest fleet of mobile clinical facilities operated by Vanguard Healthcare. The unit had only been on the island for a few days after completing its trans-Atlantic crossing from Rotterdam, and had already been commissioned, validated and was ready to use in unfamiliar climates at the Hospital San Francisco (HSF). At 2am on the morning that the mobile was
due to begin its first surgery list, the local clinical team opened the theatre earlier than anticipated to perform an emergency Caesarian section. “It was a lovely, if unexpected start to our service
on the island,” said Mary Smallbone, Managing Director Europe. “But the real significance was that later that day we hosted five planned surgical procedures and another five the next day. We were in full swing from day one.”
Ultra-clean environment Vanguard’s ability to quickly provide additional sophisticated operating theatre capacity is enabling providers across the globe to flex their healthcare
delivery by maintaining patient flow during theatre refurbishment; creating additional capacity during busy periods, and providing emergency capacity, for example after a hospital fire. The laminar-flow theatre unit in Bonaire provides
600 changes of air each hour, creating an ultra- clean surgical environment so that orthopaedic and even more complex procedures can be undertaken with confidence. This was important because HSF, the only acute hospital on the island, was having essential upgrading works carried out to its single operating theatre. Bonaire is in a relatively remote location off the north coast of Venezuela and patient transfers can be lengthy and problematic.
Expanding capacity Vanguard units have already enabled hospitals to deliver more than 200,000 safe surgical procedures in the UK and carry out a growing number of procedures in Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Sweden. Now the company, which is headquartered in Gloucester, England, is expanding its presence in
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