HCA Healthcare UK

HCA Healthcare UK is part of HCA Healthcare and trades through HCA International Limited, registered in England and Wales under number 03020522 with its registered office at 2 Cavendish Square, London W1G 0PU. HCA UK says Dr Thomas Frist founded HCA in 1968, that it began with Park View Hospital in Nashville, and that HCA now has 186 hospitals and approximately 2,400 sites of care across the US and UK, with more than 309,000 colleagues. HCA entered the UK market in 1995. The board of HCA International Limited approved the 2026 modern slavery statement, signed by President and Chief Executive Officer John Reay.

HCA UK’s network includes hospitals, outpatient and specialist centres, GP clinics and urgent care centres, and it partners with the NHS to run private patient units within NHS teaching hospitals. The Harborne Hospital opened in Birmingham in 2024 in partnership with Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham. HCA UK says it works with over 3,000 consultants, cared for over 300,000 patients in 2021 and reinvested over 85 per cent of its profits in its healthcare system over the last five years.

HCA UK announced on 17 February 2026 a GBP 17 million outpatient, primary care and diagnostics centre in Paternoster Square in the City of London, and on 11 September 2026 a GBP 15 million investment to introduce MR-guided radiotherapy with an Elekta Unity MR Linac.