St Joseph's Hospital, Newport

St Joseph's Hospital, Newport is one of the largest privately owned hospitals in Wales. It is situated on Harding Avenue, Malpas, Newport.

From 1946 until 2014 it was run by the Sisters of St Joseph of Annecy which is a registered charity. The congregation decided in 2014 to sell the hospital, which had 52 beds, a turnover of £7.5 million a year and 150 staff as they no longer had the resources to run or develop it. A new building with a 12-bed maternity wing was opened in October 1961.^[1] St Anne’s Hospice, which has 10 beds, in the hospital grounds, was transferred to the management of St David’s Hospice Care in 2013.^[2] The hospital was used by Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust to reduce waiting lists for orthopaedic surgery in 2008.^[3] Wye Valley NHS Trust runs a weekly podiatric surgery clinic at the hospital.^[4]

It was acquired for £2.78 million by a consortium led by Brian Staples (chairman of the European Scanning Centre based in Harley Street), Paul Jenkins and Rohit Kulkarni (an orthopaedic surgeon who is team doctor to the Newport Gwent Dragons)^[5] and including 43 of the hospital’s existing consultants.^[6] 36 consultants own 40% of the business, and Staples, Jenkins and Kulkarni own 60%. The consortium set up a minor injuries unit, a breast cancer care unit, an oncology unit and improved the imaging unit with new equipment.^[7] It claims that its diagnostic facilities are the most advanced available in the UK outside London. Under the new management the number of permanent staff has risen to 177.^[8] More medical consultants have been recruited. ^[9]

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