The Portland Hospital

Internationally renowned for clinical excellence, The Portland Hospital is the only independent hospital in the UK entirely dedicated to women and children. Our inpatient and outpatient specialties reflect this, providing clinical expertise in Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Women`s Health. The Portland Hospital prides itself on the longstanding principles to provide support, an inspiring working environment and positive energy to ensure everyone has a better day and receive gold standard quality service. Our Paediatric wards hold 52 beds including 11 bed Daycase Unit and are equipped with the latest technology to provide advanced medical and surgical care, including a 14 bed Paediatric Intensive Care Unit which reflects the acuity and complex nature of the children who are admitted to our hospital, including a proportion of international patients who are sent for specialist treatment and/or investigations by their embassies. Our busy Children’s Outpatients Department spread over three sites has a large range of specialist Paediatrics clinics including: Cardiac, Allergy, Dermatology, General Paediatrics, Gastro-enterology, ENT, Urology, Plastics ,Orthopaedics and Spinal. As the only fully private maternity hospital in the UK, The Portland Hospital places emphasis on safety and quality as well as providing a premier service to all our women. With approximately 1,400 deliveries a year, our ethos is to put women at the centre of their own maternity care and empower them to make decisions about how they want to give birth, all with the highest in healthcare quality and safety. The maternity unit currently has 16 inpatient beds as well as a 5 bedded delivery suite with a birthing pool, an emergency maternity theatre and obstetric HDU facilities. The Outpatient Service also supports busy Consultant and Midwife Led antenatal services and links with the ultrasound imaging service within the building. Our dedicated Neonatal Unit supports the maternity services with 6 cots providing Special Care and Level 2 Neonatal Intensive Care (accepting newborns from 28weeks gestation). We understand the sensitivity in seeking treatment for one of the complexities of women’s health which includes gynaecology, early pregnancy, sexual health and complementary therapies supported by appropriate diagnostic health screening. A comprehensive range of treatments and diagnostic procedures are carried out including colposcopy, LLETZ and hysteroscopy on an outpatient basis within our consulting suites, whilst surgery is provided in our theatres with inpatient recovery in our 11 bedded inpatient gynaecology ward. Treatment within Women’s Health is one of the most rapidly advancing technological areas of medicine. In keeping with this much of the treatment offered utilises minimally invasive techniques which can often result in a shorter inpatient stay and recovery period.