The establishment of Elanic Hospital Glasgow brings competition to the city’s private hospital landscape.
Elanic Hospital Glasgow is the first private hospital in the city centre and will shake up the private hospital landscape across the West of Scotland.
An expansion from Elanic Clinic, which has been providing cosmetic day case surgery in Glasgow’s city centre for more than 13 years, the £6 million facility, 15,000 sq. ft purpose-built hospital is equipped with three theatres and will offer a range of elective treatments, specifically those which are most under pressure and with the longest waiting lists on the NHS. These are orthopaedic, bariatric, cosmetic, ENT, gynaecology, urology, and general surgery procedures.
The hospital plans to undertake fewer major procedures in Phase 1, with major procedures planned in Phase 2 in a month’s time.
Vivek Sivarajan, chief executive of Elanic Hospital Glasgow, says that the impetus to establish the hospital was simply the “growing demand” for private healthcare.
It says much for the credibility of the hospital that Jason Leitch, the former national clinical director of healthcare quality and strategy for Scotland and who helped lead the country’s response to the COVID pandemic, was appointed to the board as a non-executive director with a focus on clinical governance in June last year.
Elanic’s main competitor is Circle Health’s Ross Hall Hospital a little way outside the city and Nuffield Health Hospital in Glasgow’s West End.
