Alexandra Hospital (Cheadle)
The Alexandra Hospital | |
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BMI Healthcare | |
![]() Entrance, Alexandra Hospital, Cheadle | |
Geography | |
Location | Cheadle, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom |
Coordinates | 53°23′48″N 2°12′59″W / 53.396787°N 2.216403°W |
Organisation | |
Care system | Private |
Services | |
Emergency department | No |
History | |
Opened | 1981 |
The Alexandra Hospital is a private hospital in Cheadle, Greater Manchester, operated by BMI Healthcare. It is the largest private hospital in the UK outside London.[1]
History
[edit]The facility was founded in 1981,[2] and has treated a number of notable patients, including Russell Watson,[3] Fabrice Muamba,[4] and Alex Ferguson.[5] Matt Busby died in the hospital in 1994.[6]
Services
[edit]Over 600 consultants work from the hospital, offering a range of services including Orthopaedics, Cardiology, Fertility treatment, an imaging suite including CT and MRI, seven operating theatres, and a 5-bed intensive care unit. The hospital has 128 beds, all in individual en-suite rooms.[7]
The hospital's latest inspection by the Care Quality Commission found most aspects of care to be 'Good', but the safety of its intensive care facility was judged as 'Requires Improvement'.[8]
In 2016, the hospital was criticised for employing an anaesthetics nurse who had forged her qualifications.[9][10]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Begum, Shelina (5 July 2016). "BMI Healthcare invests £8m in flagship Alexandra Hospital". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
- ^ "Flagship Hospital Celebrates 35 Years of Care". BMI Healthcare. 11 November 2016. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
- ^ "Watson discharged from hospital". BBC News. 31 October 2007. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
- ^ Luckhurst, Samuel (13 April 2012). "Fabrice Muamba Set To Leave Hospital With Electrical Heart Device Inserted". HuffPost. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
- ^ Wallace, Sam (13 March 2004). "Ferguson has pacemaker". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
- ^ Crist, Matthew (20 January 2018). "Matt Busby: When Football Lost Manchester United's Father Figure On This Day in 1994". The Sportsman. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
- ^ "BMI The Alexandra Hospital - Private Hospital Manchester | BMI Healthcare UK". www.bmihealthcare.co.uk. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
- ^ "BMI The Alexandra Hospital". Care Quality Commission. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
- ^ McKeegan, Alice (18 January 2016). "Nurse at The Alexandra Hospital in Cheadle is struck off after forging anaesthetics qualifications letter". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
- ^ "Payout over man's gastric bypass death at Alexandra Hospital". BBC News. 19 April 2012. Retrieved 16 November 2018.