Building work progresses on £100m Specialist Hospital in Birmingham

Drees & Sommer UK are providing Quantity Surveying and Employers Agent services on a new £100m specialist hospital facility in Birmingham, which will provide acute care to private patients in the region, as well as extra capacity and access to specialist facilities for NHS patients. The capital is provided by M&G Investments (M&G) with investment from HCA UK.

The 138-bed specialist hospital facility is being built on the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham campus, for a partnership between HCA Healthcare UK (HCA UK) and University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust Foundation Trust (UHB).

The hospital will include a radiotherapy unit and state-of-the-art operating theatres. It will be equipped with the latest technology to provide some of the most complex surgical and medical procedures and treatments across cancer, cardiology, neurology, hepatobiliary, urology, orthopaedics and stem cell transplantation.

This will give patients access to a level of acute private healthcare not currently available to the 500,000 people in the region who have private health insurance or who want to self-pay for their care. The 14,728sqm facility is expected to be completed in 2022.