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HCA Healthcare UK is one of the leading private healthcare providers in the UK, providing seamless expert medical care across a system of hospitals, outpatient clinics, GP practices and NHS partnerships. Over 3,000 consultant partners provide a depth and breadth of care across our hospitals and clinics that is unmatched in the independent sector.

From our beginnings as a small hospital founded by doctors in the US, we came to the UK in the nineties to establish hospitals with the deep clinical infrastructure to provide the most complex care otherwise not routinely available outside of the NHS.

Today, we employ approx. 5,500 people and our founding philosophy of putting patients first guides us every step of the way. HCA UK has a higher proportion of CQC ‘Outstanding’ ratings than any other private hospital group in the UK, with a total of 16 ‘Outstanding’ locations. We are also proud to be the no.1 in the UK for private cardiac care, based on national private cardiac volumes, with more people coming to us for private cardiac care than anywhere else in the UK while our continued investment in the latest medical technology means we are the largest provider of robotic surgery in the independent sector, with a fleet of seven da Vinci surgical systems across five hospitals.

The NIHR fund, enable and deliver world-leading health and social care research that improves people’s health and wellbeing, and promotes economic growth.

The NIHR Nursing and Midwifery vision is to inspire nurses and midwives to improve health outcomes through research. Their aim is to enable nurses and midwives who support, deliver or lead research to develop and work to their potential, and to develop a pipeline of skilled research nurses and midwives at all stages in their career.

About Nuffield Health
For over 65 years Nuffield Health has been a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to building a healthier nation. We are at the forefront of providing high quality healthcare and fitness support through our network of 37 hospitals and 110 fitness and wellbeing centres.

We work as a team to help people achieve your health and wellbeing ambitions, providing high quality hospital care and fitness support, and championing free health and wellbeing programmes in local communities by giving more people the tools they need to live a healthy life. These programmes help people understand and improve their own health, including those living with joint pain and the effects of cancer and its treatment.

A key goal for all healthcare providers is to improve the quality of care for patients and residents. Our integrated system gives you the ability to transform unreliable processes and inconsistent communications into a streamlined and centralised approach, revolutionising how you provide care.

UNISON is the UK’s leading and biggest health trade union. We are passionate about supporting nurses and midwives and all those who work tirelessly to deliver care to the nation.

UNISON is campaigning for a strong and improved NHS for the 21st century. We believe that nurses should be valued and respected for the work they do and should be supported to deliver the very best, safe, person centred care.

Join UNISON now for professional advice and essential cover at work as well as a range of exclusive member benefits for you and your family at home. Find out more at unison.org.uk

We are proud to sponsor the award for ‘Team of the Year’, recognising that good patient care requires the whole team to work well together.