Practice Plus Group Hospital Birmingham has marked its second anniversary in Edgbaston, having opened in 2024 as a private hospital for self-pay and insured patients across the Midlands and beyond. The hospital has treated thousands of private self-paying and insured patients and become a centre of excellence for planned surgery.

The hospital, formerly the Edgbaston Hospital at 22 Somerset Road, offers orthopaedics, ophthalmology, endoscopy, diagnostics and a private GP service.

The hospital’s main specialities are orthopaedics, general surgery and ophthalmology, supported by an endoscopy suite, a physiotherapy gym and a radiology centre with X-ray, ultrasound and MRI.

Practice Plus Group took over the building from Circle Health Group in May 2024, when it had 55 bedrooms, three theatres, an endoscopy suite and ten consulting rooms, and the refitted hospital now offers three operating theatres and 29 beds.

Private patients can expect a consultation one to two weeks after enquiring, with subsequent treatment four to six weeks later.

“We also know from the calls we have received that there is demand in the area for our high-quality, affordable private option for those people who want to pay or use their insurance for fast access to high clinical quality treatment,” said chief executive Jim Easton when the group acquired the site.

“Our second anniversary is an opportunity to celebrate the thousands of patients who have already benefited from treatment at the hospital and to renew our commitment to supporting even more people in the years ahead,” said Samantha Doubleday, hospital director.

Practice Plus Group, headquartered in Theale, Reading, is owned by Indian hospital group Narayana Health, which completed its £188.78 million acquisition in November 2025.

The structural driver is demand for fast, affordable private access to planned surgery, which the group says it identified from enquiries before acquiring the site.

For the sector, the anniversary shows an independent operator building a private surgical hospital in Edgbaston from a converted former Circle Health Group site.