Circle Health

rdf:langString Circle Health

rdf:langString Circle Health Group

rdf:langString Circle Health Group

rdf:langString UK and China

rdf:langString , Henry Davis

rdf:langString , Paul Manning

rdf:langString Paolo Pieri

rdf:langString London, United Kingdom

rdf:langString Circle Health Group is a private healthcare provider in the United Kingdom, co-founded in 2004 by former investment banker Ali Parsa and consultant ophthalmologist Massoud Fouladi. The company is currently led by former lastminute.com Finance Director Paolo Pieri. Circle began with independent hospitals near Bath and Reading, and now has hospitals in England, Wales and Scotland, together with two in China. Circle Health ran an independent sector treatment centre delivering dermatology services in Nottingham from 2008 until 2019, at which point the operation of dermatology services was returned to Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. The operation of dermatology services during the period in which they were run by Circle Health was described as an "unmitigated disaster" in an independent report commissioned by the local clinical commissioning group which runs health services in the county. In November 2011, the company was awarded a contract to run Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire, the first NHS England hospital to be operated by a private company. Circle Health withdrew from the hospital, three years into the ten-year contract, shortly after being severely criticised by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) over standards of care and hygiene. The CQC report indicated that "Medical services were inadequate because we found poor emotional and physical care which was not safe or caring. This was not reported by leaders of the service to the trust management therefore we judged the leadership to be inadequate." It was the worst rating for 'caring' that the CQC had ever given. In December 2019, the company acquired BMI Healthcare, to form the biggest private hospital provider in the UK, which it rebranded as Circle Health Group. The combined group has annual revenues of almost £1 billion. Since 2021 it has been a subsidiary of Centene Corporation.