Direct admissions to our hospitals

As an experienced provider of acute direct admission services, our team is able to mobilise multiple specialist Consultants and hospital critical care teams at short notice, quickly responding to the demands associated with this type of referral.

Our International Patient Centre provides bespoke case management for such referrals, whether government sponsored, insured or self-pay. We work closely with all major air ambulance providers and ground services to ensure a streamlined journey into our critical care units.

Our Level 3 intensive care units are run by a 24/7 team of Specialist Intensive Care Consultants. Each is equipped with the latest isolation pods to safely accommodate patients of potential infection risk.

We are able to accept direct admissions for patients across a number of areas, including but not limited to:

• Patients who have experienced trauma (e.g. road traffic accidents, injuries from conflict, workplace accidents)
• Neuro-compromised patients
• Cardiac patients
• Complex medical patients (including renal failure)
• Weaning off mechanical ventilation

A number of our principal high acuity hospitals in London, Hampshire, Birmingham, Nottingham, Manchester and Glasgow offer the support and back-up of full critical care facilities.

Such advanced capabilities have enabled us for many years to treat cases at the highest level of complexity, including major spinal, trauma, cardiac, neuro, colorectal, vascular and transplant surgery, as well as complex medical admissions.

Our critical care facilities are fitted with isolation pods and side rooms for patients with infection risk, which are particularly useful for medical evacuations/direct admission into these facilities from overseas.

• Critically ill and post-trauma patients
• Patients requiring advanced care following major and complex surgical procedures
• Patients with a variety of medical conditions who require complex multi-organ support
• High risk patients undergoing minor/intermediate procedures e.g. patients with complex medical histories
• Acutely ill inpatients or patients admitted through our urgent direct admissions service
• Patients requiring weaning from mechanical ventilation

• Cardiac surgery
• Thoracic surgery
• Spinal surgery
• Cranial neurosurgery
• Orthopaedic and sarcoma surgery
• General surgery – bowel and upper gastrointestinal
• Bariatric surgery
• Haematological interventions
• Oral and maxillofacial surgery
• ENT surgery – tumour, thyroid, neck
• Major reconstructive surgery
• Complex gynaecological procedures
• Renal/urological procedures
• Transplant surgery

• Consultants in intensive care medicine
• Specialty Consultants
• Specialist critical care registrars
• Radiologists
• Pathologists
• Microbiologists
• Physiotherapists
• Dieticians
• Pharmacists