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The Latest Breaking News from Spire Healthcare

UK’s biggest private hospital firm Spire agrees £1bn takeover by hedge fund

Toscafund, founded by City figure known as ‘the Rottweiler’, signs deal amid fears over creeping privatisation of NHS

The Guardian - UK · Sep 7

Major UK private hospital firm Spire taken over by hedge fund in £1 billion deal

Spire operates dozens of hospitals and around 55 clinics in England, Wales and Scotland

The Independent UK · Sep 7

Spire Healthcare agrees to be taken private in £1bn takeover deal

Spire had been in talks with Toscafund, its second largest shareholder, for several months over a possible takeover.

Evening Standard · Sep 7

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Hedge fund proposes £1bn buyout of UK’s biggest private hospital operator

Shares in Spire Healthcare jump after approach from Toscafund, founded by City figure known as ‘the Rottweiler’

The Guardian - UK · May 14

Spire Healthcare in talks over £1 billion takeover approach

The firm runs 38 private hospitals and more than 60 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland.

Evening Standard · May 14

Hospital operator Spire considering potential sale

Shares in FTSE 250 firm Spire Healthcare shot higher on Friday morning after it confirmed it would consider options including a sale.

Evening Standard · Sep 19, 2025

‘No dissonance’: boss of private hospital group Spire on its work with the NHS

Justin Ash runs the UK’s biggest private health provider, which makes millions offering treatments ranging from hip ops to therapy

The Guardian - UK · Feb 4, 2025

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Spire Healthcare reports profit and revenue jump as its work for NHS increases

Private hospital group also benefited from higher take-up of private health insurance among working-age people

The Guardian - UK · Sep 12, 2024

TV sex coach who ‘raped client’ linked with clinic run by major UK private healthcare provider

A high court judge has ordered sex therapist Mike Lousada to pay damages following civil rape case

The Independent UK · Jun 22, 2024

Private hospital criticised for relying on NHS ambulance service to transfer patients

Death of a man who waited 14 hours for a transfer in Norwich highlights growing reliance on private providers in complex cases

The Guardian - UK · Sep 23, 2023

‘My husband went for gastric sleeve surgery to improve his health but within days he was dead’

Phillip Morris was an award-winning writer and academic and a 'wonderful father, husband, and son'

Wales Online · May 6, 2023

Probe opened into deaths of 650 patients treated by jailed breast cancer surgeon

Once one of UK’s leading doctors, Ian Paterson uneccesarily did life-changing surgery on hundreds

The Independent UK · Apr 16, 2023

Surge in patients paying for GP appointments as pressure on NHS grows

Healthcare provider says revenues from its private doctor meetings rose by 46 per cent last year

The Independent UK · Mar 3, 2023

GP services and diagnostic private sector growing rapidly

The UK is seeing an explosion in private GP services

Birmingham Post · Feb 23, 2023

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Daily Mirror · Feb 1, 2023

Butcher surgeon Ian Paterson could have hundreds more victims after old database found

Surgeon Ian Paterson was jailed in 2017 on 17 counts of wounding with intent, but 1,500 other patients have now been found following a review at Spire hospitals in the West Midlands

The Independent UK · Feb 1, 2023

Further 1,500 patients of breast surgeon Ian Paterson to be recalled for investigation

Paterson is known to have treated thousands at Spire Parkway hospital and Spire Little Aston hospital in the West Midlands between 1997 and 2011

The Guardian - UK · Feb 1, 2023

1,500 more patients of jailed breast surgeon Ian Paterson recalled

Spire Healthcare contacts patients after opening historical databases, more than two decades after rogue doctor treated them

Wales Online · Feb 1, 2023

Hundreds more patients of disgraced breast surgeon Ian Paterson to be recalled

Paterson subjected more than 1,000 patients to unnecessary and damaging operations over 14 years

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The Independent UK · Feb 1, 2023

Further 1,500 patients of breast surgeon Ian Paterson to be recalled

Paterson is known to have treated thousands at Spire Parkway hospital and Spire Little Aston hospital in the West Midlands between 1997 and 2011.

The Guardian - UK · Dec 19, 2022

Pay NHS staff properly so they don’t have to turn to the private sector

Letters: Jack Pickard on incentivising NHS doctors to provide additional NHS work and Martin Giebner on the need to raise salaries. Plus a letter from Justin Ash of Spire Healthcare

The Guardian - UK · Oct 14, 2022

What private healthcare does as the NHS suffers cuts

Letters: Janet Dobson and Margaret Pelling argue that private healthcare is detrimental to the NHS, while David Furness and Justin Ash say that it plays a complementary role and supports the health service

Evening Standard · Feb 11, 2022

Spire Healthcare CFO Jitesh Sodha in serious cycling accident

The chief financial officer of the second largest provider of private healthcare in the UK has been in a serious cycling accident, it was announced today.

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