Comprehensive delivery from concept to operation
Independent Care’s principals have led the full lifecycle delivery of multiple acute independent hospitals, from initial concept and design through development, project management, equipping, commissioning, and operational management.
With over 30 years of experience, we have consistently shaped and delivered innovative models of private healthcare. The business has played a pivotal role as an innovator, co-founder, investor, developer, and operator behind some of the UK’s most successful independent hospitals. Notably, all but two of the hospitals it has established have gone on to be acquired into the property portfolios of the UK’s leading hospital groups, demonstrating a strong track record of value creation and delivery.
This includes flagship facilities such as One Healthcare Group’s hospitals in Ashford, Kent and Hatfield, Hertfordshire.
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Most recently, the continued expansion of One Healthcare highlights this success, with the group achieving exceptional growth and reinforcing Independent Care’s reputation for delivering high-performing healthcare assets.
One Ashford Hospital
Built on time and within budget to provide new private healthcare facilities to a rapidly growing area of east Kent. GOOD CQC governance rating achieved, and the hospital gained the BREEAM Excellent award, the highest industry award for sustainability, quality of built environment and quality of construction. One Ashford is the only private hospital in Kent to offer paediatric services.
Facilities encompass:
• 3 operating theatres,
• 20 luxury ensuite bedrooms,
• 9 outpatient consulting rooms
• Rehabilitation physiotherapy suite
• X-ray, CT, MRI and ultrasound
• Free on-site parking
Comments from patients at One Ashford:
Thank you all for looking after me so well. I’ve not long lost my husband and I found it very emotional to wake up and he wasn’t there. The nurse in recovery was very sympathetic and helped me through it, bless her.
The treatment was 10/10. The specialists in all fields were exceptional, the nurses were so good at their jobs and were so caring, they went above and beyond to help me with everything I couldn’t do for myself. I almost wanted to stay longer. Thanks for everything the team who looked after me so well.
Had 2 hip replacements at the One. First in October sand then in January. First class treatment both times. Would not hesitate to go there again if ever need be.
One Hatfield Hospital
One Hatfield Hospital, designed and developed by Independent Care and built by Conlon Construction, has received a Green Apple Award for Environmental Best Practice, recognising its commitment to sustainability.
The £38m BREEAM Excellent One Hatfield Hospital in Hertfordshire, built on behalf of One Healthcare, has energy efficiency and environmental performance built into its fabric, with multiple measures to reduce consumption and utilise renewable technologies driving down running costs whilst ensuring high standards of patient comfort.
The facility employs c.150 staff and comprises 10 consulting rooms, 32 in-patient and day care bedrooms, three integrated theatre suites, three treatment suites including endoscopy and a Zen Garden.
Facilities encompass:
• 3 clean air operating theatres,
• 18 luxury ensuite bedrooms,
• 10 outpatient consulting rooms
• Rehabilitation physiotherapy suite
• Digital X-ray, MRI, CT, and ultrasound diagnostic
• Free controlled on-site parking (Including EV charging points)
Comments from patients at One Hatfield:
The staff were fantastic and made be feel completely confident in the abilities and relaxed about the procedure. From the receptionist to the theatre nurses everyone treated me with respect. The hospital was very clean and well maintained. I would definitely recommend this facility.
The staff are informative, attentive and accommodating during my day stay at the hospital. The catering menu was impressive and my chosen meal was enjoyable.
Kings College Hospital, London
Capital cost £25m, size 3,450m2
Independent Care’s key design partner P+HS Architects worked with principal contractor, premier Modular and Client team at Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to create a new dedicated home for outpatient services as part of the Trust’s Modernising Medicine Programme.
The new, 4-storey, Willowfield Building is a purpose-built centre
that has allowed a range of patient services to be relocated Size and consolidated, creating space in the main hospital building 3,450m2 and reducing wait times, improving the overall experience for patients visiting the hospital for urgent care. Outpatient services include dermatology, rheumatology, respiratory, neurosciences,
pain, and urology as well as some aspects of surgery and
therapies.
Due to Modular construction from Premier Modular,
much of the building was created off-site, with components
delivered to the hospital for installation, minimising noise and
disruption to the area.
The Willowfield Building was declared Project of the Year at the MMC Awards 2023.
Norwich & Norfolk University Hospital Trust Orthopaedic Centre
Capital cost £11m
Size 1,000m2 new build modular; 1,000m2 refurbishment
Addressing the backlog of elective, orthopaedic surgery resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic, the Independent Care Group incorporating P+HS Architects, Premier Modular, Serco worked with the Trust to deliver a new patient-centred unit comprising a Same Day Admissions Unit, treatment rooms, two laminar flow theatres, Post Anaesthetics Care Unit, a 21-bedded ward, physiotherapy rooms, and a pharmacy and dispensing room for the embedded Pharmacy Team. At full capacity, the unit will carry out around 2,500 orthopaedic cases a year for patients who need ankle, foot, hip, knee or shoulder operations.
The project was a hybrid construction of new, modular accommodation and major refurbishment of an existing modular ward, which was completely reconfigured to meet the new requirements.
One Ashford Hospital
One Hatfield Hospital
