Updated 6 January 2017
BPAS Slough is part of the national charitable organisation British Pregnancy Advisory Service.
The clinic is located in gated business premises near to the centre of Slough.
The seven Berkshire clinical commissioning groups commission the services provided by BPAS Slough. The service also provides a service to self-funders. BPAS Slough does not provide a vasectomy service.
The unit provides consultations and medical abortions (up to 10 weeks) and surgical abortions (up to 14 weeks). Surgical abortions are provided using local anaesthesia with or without conscious sedation (medicine is given to reduce anxiety and pain).
The BPAS Slough clinic is open five days a week: Monday and Thursday, 11am to 7pm, Tuesday, 8am to 3.30pm, Wednesday and Friday, 9am to 5pm.
Other services include pregnancy testing, unplanned pregnancy counselling, abortion aftercare, sexually transmitted infection testing, contraceptive advice and contraception supply. Between 30 November 2015 and August 2016 the service carried out 532 medical abortions and 341 surgical abortions.
At the time of inspection, there was a unit manager who was the registered manager and had been in post since the clinic opened on 30 November 2015.
A team consisting of two CQC inspectors and one specialist carried out this inspection as part of our comprehensive inspection programme of termination of pregnancy services. We reviewed medical and surgical termination of pregnancy services.