Production of the UK fleet of mobile operating theatres is being stepped up to enable more NHS patients to be treated closer to where they live.
A skilled, motivated and contented workforce earns the operator of the UK's largest fleet of mobile theatres the prestigious Investors in People (IIP) Standard.
Mrs Mary Hyland, a 76-year-old lady from Eaton Wick, near Windsor, becomes the 50,000th NHS patient to have a procedure on a mobile operating theatre.
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Vanguard Healthcare was acquired by Nuffield Hospitals, the UK's largest not-for-profit independent healthcare provider, on October 9th, 2004. The acquisition was pivotal towards Nuffield Hospital's goal of working more closely with the NHS by making flexible, lower-cost capacity available as and when needed, as well as making independent healthcare more affordable and accessible to all.
A British company, using British technology, Vanguard Healthcare is the successor company to Cardinal Healthcare originally founded by Andrew Allen and Gary King.
Vanguard Healthcare began trading in March 2002 with 3 mobiles and 12 members of staff. Today, it employs 70-plus staff and is capable of carrying out 3,000 surgical procedures every month.
The company runs the UK national mobile fleet which in early 2008 numbered 34 mobiles including laminar-flow operating theatres, endoscopy units, day surgery units, wards and outpatient units.
Our units operate, for the most part, on NHS sites and are used by NHS surgeons and anaesthetists for the benefit of NHS patients. We are one of a very small number of companies providing services on NHS sites in this way.
Vanguard's world-class surgical facilities - which are provided with or without operating theatre personnel according to local need - are built to UK Department of Health Technical Memorandum standards and cost approximately £1million each to put on the road.
In January 2004, Vanguard became the first company to supply the NHS with a Mobile Treatment Centre, by providing two integrated fleets of mobile operating theatres and mobile recovery wards - plus mobile outpatient facilities - as part of the Department of Health national cataract initiative.
Originally based in Bristol, the company had offices for a time at the Nuffield Hospital in Cheltenham. In 2007 it moved into new headquarters, with its sister organisation Nuffield Diagnostics, at the Gloucester Business Park, near Brockworth, Gloucestershire.
