Updated 11 February 2025
The London Welbeck Hospital is operated by Welbeck Healthcare Limited. It is a non-acute hospital providing elective cosmetic surgery procedures and is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The hospital has 14 beds and overnight facilities are also available. The hospital provides services to adults over the age of 18 years. There is a core team of permanent staff including the registered manager, resident medical officers, ward and theatre managers and nursing staff, operating department practitioners, healthcare care assistants and administrative team members. Surgeons and anaesthetists working at the hospital use the hospital facilities under practising privileges. The provider has three operating theatres, two consulting rooms and a ward. The hospital provides cosmetic surgery procedures including breast augmentation and reduction, rhinoplasty, liposuction and abdominoplasty. The provider is registered for the following regulated activities: treatment of disease, disorder or injury, surgical procedures and diagnostic and screening procedures. We carried out this assessment at The London Welbeck Hospital due to concerns regarding an unexpected death of a patient, following a surgical procedure carried out at the service. We inspected seven quality statements across the safe, effective and well-led key questions. Following our assessment, the overall rating for The London Welbeck Hospital has gone down to requires improvement. We found several concerns and breaches of regulation relating to infection prevention and control, the management of medicines and governance processes.