UK’s biggest private hospital provider Spire in talks on sale to private equity

Spire runs 38 hospitals and more than 50 clinics, medical centres and consulting rooms across England, Wales and Scotland. Photograph: David Jones/PA

The UK’s biggest private hospital provider, Spire Healthcare, is in talks about a sale to private equity that could lead to it being delisted from the London Stock Exchange.

The company, which owns the Claremont hospital in Sheffield and St Anthony’s hospital in south London, said on Monday that Bridgepoint Advisers and Triton Investments Advisers were “amongst the parties” with which it was in talks.