Our Board of Governors determines the strategic direction of the hospital and monitors the delivery of our business plan by the Hospital Executive.

We're headed up a team of passionate and committed leaders who help to make Benenden Hospital the outstanding hospital it is today. 

We believe that our patients and their families deserve to know about the quality of care they receive. At Benenden Hospital we aim to deliver the best quality of care by the right people, in the right place, at the right time to ultimately improve the health and wellbeing of our patients.

Our Quality Accounts report on the quality of services we provide and demonstrate our commitment to quality.

At Benenden Hospital we take the security of your information as seriously as you do. Discover how we manage information security and read our tops tips on how to stay safe online.

We believe that speaking up about concerns our staff have is vital. We want our staff to feel supported at work and ultimately ensure that we are providing excellent care to our patients. Through Freedom to speak up, we're committed to an open and honest culture and will ensure that the concerns of our staff are looked into and that they are offered and have access to the support they need.

We have a commitment and a duty to safeguard vulnerable adults within the organisation and a duty to ensure that there is adequate awareness in relation to safeguarding children and young people, as stipulated in the Care Quality Commission’s Fundamental Standards and Regulation 13.

At Benenden Hospital, we have a culture of continuous improvement and are committed to providing our patients with the highest quality of care. We've developed a framework of both internal and external mechanisms to deliver this commitment.

By adopting a structured approach to risk assessment not only do we minimise the possibility of accidents happening, we also help prevent and control events that can damage our reputation in the wider community.

We have a zero tolerance approach to Modern Slavery of any kind within our operations and supply chain, and take seriously any allegations that human rights are not properly respected.

We're committed to promoting diversity and gender equality for all throughout the organisation. We have a clear policy of paying employees equally for the same or equivalent work, regardless of their sex or any other protected characteristic.

In accordance with the requirements of the competition and Market Authority Private Healthcare Market investigation Order (2014), we've provided information as a declaration of hospital services provided for Consultants and referring clinicians.

The Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) is a measured and focused approach to how the Hospital responds to patient safety incidents. - our PSIRF Plan explains more.