Our Partnership
Founded in 2019, Peninsula Heart Clinic is a highly successful partnership between University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust and Regent’s Park Healthcare.
The partnership ensures private patients receive the ‘best-of-both-worlds’: world-class specialist care and the very highest standards of service, together with the confidence of being in the NHS with access to the latest technology, highly-trained specialist staff and its safety-net of services on hand. It also ensures operating profits from the treatment of private patients are re-invested back into frontline NHS care.
The partnership is based around a common desire to deliver service innovation by focusing on four key objectives: 1) shorten patient access times; 2) deliver excellent healthcare at reduced cost; 3) improve patient experience; and 4) improve clinical outcomes. University Hospitals Plymouth currently has long patient waiting times for elective cardiac catheter lab procedures which in some cases exceed 12 months
Regent's Park Healthcare
Regent's Park Healthcare is the UK’s leading independent cardiac services company with over 20 years of expertise in the development and operation of cardiology and cardiovascular services. Regent's Park Healthcare works exclusively with the NHS, and has a service platform providing both complex cardiac procedures and outpatient services across a large number of NHS hospitals.
Regent's Park Healthcare prides itself on its ability to deliver high-quality, cost-effective cardiac care through excellent service, efficient operations management, well-trained staff and uncompromising professionalism. Regent's Park Healthcare's guiding philosophy has always been to strive for world-class standards and to place patient safety at the forefront of all decision making.
University Hospitals Plymouth
The location of Peninsula Heart Clinic alongside the South West Regional Cardiothoracic Centre within Derriford hospital was carefully chosen. This co-location alongside the Trust allows immediate, on-site access to cardiac surgeons, anaesthetists and critical care facilities should they be needed. It also all ensures PHC is able to adhere to all national clinical guidelines for coronary stenting and device implantation, as well as participate in national and local audits with UHP – this ensures safety and drives quality.
To our knowledge, this is the first time anywhere in the NHS that this type of partnership approach has been developed, namely inviting an independent company to co-locate itself alongside a major NHS cardiothoracic centre to provide fully managed cardiology services to improve operational productivity and performance.
Peninsula Heart Clinic, Registered in England & Wales, is provided and run by Regent's Park Heart Clinics Ltd, and its company number is 07278100.