Spire Healthcare Group PLC Spire Healthcare opens hospital in Nottingham (5919D)

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Spire Healthcare Group PLC

02 May 2017

Spire Healthcare Group Plc

2 May 2017

Spire Healthcare opens GBP60m state of the art flagship hospital in Nottingham

Spire Healthcare, a UK-leading private hospital group, is pleased to announce that, its new hospital in Tollerton, South Nottingham, opened to patients on 30 April, following successful registration with the Care Quality Commission.

Designed and built with extensive input from consultants, staff and patients, the 58-bed new hospital has five theatres, an endoscopy suite, a 20-room outpatients department and oncology suite, as well as an advanced radiology department that comprises a 3T MRI, CT and X-ray. Spire Nottingham Hospital is the second hospital in the group to have the capability to stream live video and two-way audio feeds from two of its theatres to a large 86" 4k display in the boardroom.

Creating 150 new jobs for the local area, the GBP60m state-of-the-art facility will offer patients a wide range of integrated surgical, medical and diagnostic services that will meet the needs of Nottingham and its surrounding areas.

Will Pressley, Spire Nottingham Hospital Director, said:

"This is the first time that Spire Healthcare has built a greenfield facility in an entirely new operational area. In our initial planning stages, there was strong feedback from consultants that this is where a hospital was needed to provide Nottingham and wider East Midland communities with excellent access to a comprehensive range of medical services and up-to-date facilities.

"Spire Healthcare has made a huge investment in outstanding patient services, excellent patient accommodation and the best technology, enabling us to deliver the highest quality care and clinical outcomes for all our patients at Spire Nottingham Hospital. I am very pleased to have been part of the leadership team for this project and I believe we have the best independent hospital in the Midlands area".

Neil McCullough, Spire's Group Development Director, said:

"Nottingham is a successful and vibrant city and we are delighted to be joining the local health community with the opening of an advanced hospital befitting of the City's status. I am pleased that we have been able to open and register this fantastic new facility so quickly - a credit to our development and hospital management teams who have all worked incredibly hard to make it happen.

The new state-of-the-art Spire Nottingham Hospital marks our entry into an entirely new local market, and will bring significant employment and economic benefits to the local community as well as a leading healthcare centre for Nottingham. Coming on line just three months after the opening of our Manchester hospital, both new facilities demonstrate our ability to identify and invest in emerging customer needs.

I would like to thank our patients, staff, consultants, Nottingham City Council and the many contractors who have been instrumental over the past two years in building what is undoubtedly one of the best independent hospitals in the country, and which brings together medical and surgical expertise and clinical care to serve those locally and beyond."

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About Spire Healthcare

About Spire Healthcare

Spire Healthcare is a leading independent hospital group in the United Kingdom. We deliver high standards of care, with integrity and compassion and from high-quality facilities to our insured, Self-pay and NHS patients.

From our 39 hospitals, 10 clinics and two Specialist Cancer Care Centres across England, Wales and Scotland, we provide diagnostics, in-patient, daycase and out-patient care. We also own and operate sports medicine, physiotherapy and rehabilitation brand, Perform.

Working in partnership with over 3,800 experienced consultants, our hospitals delivered tailored, personalised care to more than 274,000 in-patients and daycase patients in 2016.

Spire Healthcare offers in-patient/daycase procedures in areas including orthopaedics, gynaecology, cardiology, neurology, oncology and general surgery and also diagnostic services including imaging and pathology, and is the principal independent provider by volume of knee and hip operations in the United Kingdom. We also offers out-patient services, such as consulting, minor procedures, treatments, health checks and physiotherapy.

Contacts

For further Spire Healthcare information please visit: www.spirehealthcare.com or contact Victoria Strudwick on [e-mail] or 0207 427 9130.

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