Our mission is “to provide an efficient and effective health care service, broadly equivalent to NHS standards, to the population for which GOC UKSC is responsible, in order to promote and sustain the moral and physical components of fighting power.”
BFG Health Service provides healthcare services to military personnel and entitled personnel serving in Germany and Belgium and manages Primary Healthcare services for the European Isolated Detachments (ISODETS) through the Joint Support Units medical centres.
HQ BFGHS also provides healthcare governance for the military medical facilities in the Overseas Bases (OVBs) of Canada, Belize, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Nepal and Brunei.
The SSAFA GSTT Care LLP is responsible for the delivery of Primary and Community Care services on behalf of BFGHS. Primary and Community Care refer to health services that play a central role in the local community such as GPs, Primary Care Nurses, Pharmacists, Physiotherapists, Exercise Remedial Instructors, Midwives and Health Visitors, Speech & Language Therapists, Community Psychiatric Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Child Adolescent Mental Health Nurses and Community Children’s Nurses.
Guy’s and St Thomas Trust are responsible for providing Secondary Healthcare services on behalf of BFGHS. The majority of hospital based care is provided via sub-contracts with Designated German Providers (DGP) hospitals (AKH Viersen, EvKB Gilead in Bielefeld, St Vincenz Krankenhaus in Paderborn, Klinikum Osnabrück and Henriettenstiftung in Hannover). Other care is sometimes provided in non-DGP hospitals where there are no contractual arrangements. GSTT is building working relationships with the most frequented non-contracted hospitals in order to enhance patient care and patient support services in these hospitals.
At a glance
Responsible for the delivery of Primary and Community Care and Secondary Healthcare.
- Divided into three regions: Rhine, Central (Gütersloh/Paderborn) and Hohne.
- Over 680 multi-disciplinary healthcare professionals.
- 15 Medical Centres.
- 8 Primary Care Rehabilitation Units (PCRF) and 2 Regional Rehabilitation Units (RRU).
- A dedicated Mental Health inpatient unit centrally located at the EvKB Gilead hospital in Bielefeld.
- 5 Designated German Providers (DGP) hospitals chosen for the wide range of services offered and proximity to the Garrisons.
Headquarters
Our main headquarters is Rhine Military Complex.
HQ BFGHS
Blgs 1, 3 and 5
Stephen Way
RMC
BFPO 40
Enquiries:
Tel Mil: 94872 5756
Tel Civ: +49 (0)2161 472 5756
Since 1 April 2009, we have also established a Forward Headquarters in Bielefeld.
The Gilead Hospital
Haus Burgblick
BFPO 39
Enquiries:
Tel Civ: +49 (0) 521 772 79485
Finance Department
Budget Manager:
Tel: +49 (0)2161 472 5269
Ass Budget Manager:
Tel: +49 (0)2161 472 5770
ISODET Bills Clerk
Tel: +49 (0)2161 472 5444
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