Prime has secured planning permission for a £65million specialist hospital facility located on the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham campus, Birmingham, which it says will deliver high quality acute healthcare for private patients in the region, as well as providing additional capacity and specialist facilities for NHS patients.
A joint venture between University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust Foundation Trust (UHB) and HCA Healthcare UK (HCA UK), being developed by the specialist healthcare property company, the 14,728 m2 hospital will be equipped with the latest technology to provide ‘some of the most complex surgical and medical procedures’ in cancer, cardiology, neurology, hepatobiliary, urology, orthopaedics, and stem cell transplantation.
It will include 66 beds dedicated to private patient care, which will be owned and run by HCA UK, plus 72 NHS beds, a new radiotherapy unit, and ‘state-of-the-art’ operating theatres.
The scheme, designed by HOK, will be built by VINCI Construction UK, with work expected to start this summer, and a completion date of winter 2020. Will Bilbrough, Development director at Prime said: “We are very pleased that plans for the specialist hospital facility have been given the green light. This will be a landmark scheme for Birmingham – and the wider West Midlands region – and we now look forward to starting on site in the summer.”
Dr Dave Rosser, The Trust’s executive medical director, said: “The new facility will add much-needed acute capacity for NHS patients in the region, with additional world-class facilities and expertise co-located to provide complex and excellent care.”
HCA UK already has a network of private hospitals across the UK, and over a decade’s experience working in partnership with NHS Trusts to deliver specialist private care. It has ‘long-standing partnerships’ with University College Hospital London NHS Foundation Trust and The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester.
