‘No dissonance’: boss of private hospital group Spire on its work with the NHS

Justin Ash runs the UK’s biggest private health provider, which makes millions offering treatments ranging from hip ops to therapy In a 1980s redbrick building near Gatwick airport in West Sussex, a new doughnut-shaped CT scanner is a vivid illustration of the extreme pressures facing the NHS.The £1.5m device, which speeds up the diagnosis of cancer and cardiac conditions, is the centrepiece of a newly refurbished Spire Healthcare hospital, one of the private healthcare chain’s 38 hospitals and 50 clinics and medical centres in England, Wales and Scotland. Continue reading...