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The Portland Hospital, part of HCA Healthcare, is a revered centre for excellence in private medical treatment located in central London. The highly experienced team offer specialist care for women, children and their families, with dedicated services for children and babies, women’s health and maternity care. With a wide range of highly recommended pregnancy services, including state-of-the-art scanning and expert physiotherapy, The Portland Hospital provides women with a wealth of maternity care options with safety at the heart of all treatment. In addition, the revered hospital offers comprehensive women’s health services, from menopause management to gynaecological surgery, led by highly experienced consultants including leading specialists in endometriosis and polycystic ovary syndrome. The Portland Hospital’s team of distinguished paediatric specialists also provides dedicated care for babies and children and the clinic is equipped with entertainment facilities for young patients to ensure their visit is a calm and pleasant as possible.

HCA UK at The Shard is a leading outpatients and diagnostic centre in central London that aims to diagnose and treat patients in a single visit. They offer same day consultations, prearranged one-visit clinic and unplanned diagnostic centres, and provide expert services in minor treatments, imaging, X-rays, CT and MRI scans alongside screening for prostate, breast, cervical and bowel cancer. The areas their specialist outpatient team specialise in are breast, colorectal and diabetes alongside endocrinology, ENT and head and neck, as well as gastroenterology. They are also experts in gynaecology, neurology and orthopaedics and pain management, as well as respiratory and thoracic services, physiotherapy, urology and vascular treatments. The team coordinates tests, assess patient condition and provide medication or minor treatments on the same day, where medically possible. If a patient's case is more complex, HCA UK at The Shard will ensure you have an onward health plan than may involve further treatment. This will either be at London Bridge Hospital or closer to the patient's home. They pride themselves in providing patients with a service where they benefit from the most knowledgeable specialist opinion, with the least inconvenience, in the safest of environments.