Working with the NHS to Deliver Innovation and Excellence in Healthcare
The Advanced Healthcare Centre (AHC) is on a mission to establish as a centre of healthcare excellence in the King Charles development of Poundbury, in the heart of Dorset.
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AHC has emerged from within Poundbury Cancer Institute for Personalised Medicine (PCI). PCI was established in order to improve cancer outcomes, by supporting oncology in selecting the most effective treatment for each individual patient. Its pioneering work started in 2015 and, since then, PCI has established itself at the forefront of cancer diagnostics. PCI is now a leader in its field and has a proven track record of excellent service and clinical teaching amongst the national and international community.
At AHC we draw upon the benefit of this background and use the skills, knowledge and experience to implement long term innovative solutions to improve services and outcomes in the NHS. We are CQC registered, fully ISO15189 accredited and are registered as a provider through the Increasing Capacity Framework. We are also a Designated Body enabling us to carry out doctor appraisals and revalidations. We are based in Poundbury, the urban extension to the Dorset County town of Dorchester, with the development led by the Duchy of Cornwall. We have recently extended our Poundbury-based operations by acquiring new premises also located in the centre of Poundbury, and with 4000sqm of accommodation our purpose is to develop Specialist Healthcare Services for the local community and beyond. Hence the newly created Advanced Healthcare Centre. |
The Advanced Healthcare Centre is designed to help the NHS to eradicate waiting lists and achieve sustainable local capacity. With an emphasis on moving all community based clinical work out of secondary care, our centre will be key to decreasing healthcare costs and decongesting secondary care thus enabling our hospitals to be more effective in providing in-patient care.
Our range of community-based services helps to reduce pressure on primary care services. Our centre will aim to reserve some of its capacity to enable same-day referral from GPs. Some of the services we provide will be suitable to be accessed by patients from a wider catchment area than Dorset. Patients from neighbouring counties will be able to book earlier appointments in our centre, in keeping with recent NHS-E initiatives supporting movement of patients across counties. The objective is to ensure that the innovation we implement successfully in Poundbury today can be transferred to the wider NHS tomorrow. |