Kingsbridge Personal Hospital in Belfast to supply healthcare to Vhi prospects

Medical health insurance prospects with VHI will now be capable of entry healthcare in Kingsbridge Personal Hospital in Belfast – following a partnership settlement between the insurer and the healthcare group.

The announcement implies that VHI members now have entry the three personal hospitals within the Kingsbridge Healthcare Group, after earlier agreements had been reached for the group’s services in Derry and Sligo.

Kingsbridge Healthcare Group CEO Mark Regan

The brand new partnership contains entry to the Kingsbridge Diagnostics and Remedy Centre, which shares a campus with Kingsbridge Personal Hospital on Belfast’s Lisburn Street, simply off the M1 artery into the town.

The Kingsbridge Healthcare Group has handled greater than 60,000 sufferers from the Republic of Eire over the previous three years, and helped cut back ready instances right here below the HSE’s nationwide remedy buy fund (NTPF) and the Northern Eire Deliberate Healthcare Scheme (previously generally known as the Cross-Border Healthcare Directive).

In-patient procedures at Kingsbridge Belfast cowl all the principle specialties together with orthopaedics, normal surgical procedure, ENT and gynaecology. Diagnostics and scans are performed on an out-patient foundation.

“We’re excited to work with VHI, a dynamic supplier of care and the most important well being insurer on the island, and we consider this partnership will provide their members higher alternative in accessing high-quality healthcare on the Island of Eire,” stated Kingsbridge Healthcare Group Mark Regan.

The group stated it should interact intensively with GPs, sufferers and company organisations in Eire this 12 months, and is setting up a community of satellite tv for pc clinics throughout the island for affected person aftercare and follow-up.

Kingsbridge supplies greater than 25,000 surgical remedies yearly with 450 consultants offering care throughout 50 specialities. VHI supplies personal medical insurance to over 1.2 million members within the Republic of Eire and reimburses €1.6 billion in medical-related claims every year.

“We’re happy to additional lengthen our partnership with Kingsbridge Healthcare Group with the addition of Kingsbridge Personal Hospital in Belfast,” stated Mark Byrne, VHI’s director of healthcare partnerships.

“This collaboration will present VHI members dwelling within the border area with higher entry to high-quality medical providers in a contemporary facility. We look ahead to the advantages this partnership will deliver to our members.”

Kingsbridge plans to supply quick entry to first appointments and surgical procedure by means of a brand new on-line reserving platform on their web site.  Sufferers will be capable of comply with their very own remedy pathway by registering on the Kingsbridge affected person portal.

The Lisburn Street campus boasts state-of-the-art services together with robotic surgical procedure and pharmacies on website. VHI members can be supplied preferential charges for different providers accessible at Kingsbridge like laser eye remedy, hearing-aid provision, and a sleep and loud night breathing clinic.