Patient notifications

Our ambition is always to offer excellent standards of patient safety, clinical accountability and customer service but we are not complacent and continuously seek improvement.

As a responsible healthcare business, we have robust systems for overseeing the practice of clinicians working with us. We continuously review the practice of the 8,000+ consultants across our 39 hospitals, and will contact individual patients about their care if we have a concern about a consultant’s practice.

Occasionally, when we are concerned about a consultant’s work, we will need to invite patients back for a consultation or undertake a review of their care. When this happens, we work together with our partners in the NHS, and maintain transparency by openly sharing information both within and between our hospitals, the NHS and our regulators. We always work to put the welfare of these patients at the centre of our process.

The table below sets out Spire’s current ongoing patient notifications of scale where we have identified concerns about a consultant's practice or other matter.

Paterson Independent Inquiry

Information correct as of 2 October 2023

Consultant name Spire hospital Status of consultant Procedure description Notification status  Date patient notification commenced Contact details for patients
Ian Paterson Spire Little Aston Hospital / Spire Parkway Hospital Practicing Privileges revoked Breast and general surgery Post public inquiry review underway March 2020

Call 0800 085 8130 between 8.30am to 7pm Monday to Thursday, 8.30am to 6pm on Friday and 9am to 3pm on Saturday or email
spirehealthcarehelplineianpaterson@spirehealthcare.com

Additional information for patients of Ian Paterson.

Active patient notifications

Information correct as of 20 February 2024

Consultant name Spire hospital Status of consultant Procedure description Notification status  Date patient notification commenced Contact details for patients
Anthony Dixon Spire Bristol Hospital Practising privileges revoked Laparoscopic ventral mesh rectopexy surgery, Stapled Transanal Resection of the Rectum Precautionary patient notification exercise underway July 2018 Call 0800 783 8163 between 8.30am to 7pm Monday to Thursday, 8.30am to 6pm on Friday and 9am to 3pm on Saturday or 
email bristolhosphelpline@spirehealthcare.com
John Hutchinson Spire Bristol Hospital Practising privileges revoked Spinal orthopaedic surgery Precautionary patient notification exercise underway December 2019 If you were a patient of Mr Hutchinson and are concerned about the treatment you received, you can call the patient helpline on 0800 783 8163 between 8.30am to 7pm Monday to Thursday, 8.30am to 6pm on Friday and 9am to 3pm on Saturday or email bristolhosphelpline@spirehealthcare.com
John Bradley Wiliamson Spire Manchester Hospital Practising privileges revoked Spinal surgery Precautionary patient notification exercise underway March 2023 Call 0800 028 7418 between 8.30am and 5.30pm Monday to Friday or email spirepne@spirehealthcare.com
Munawar Shah Spire Little Aston Hospital Practising privileges revoked Orthopaedic surgery Precautionary patient notification exercise underway April 2023 Call 07936 944 943 between 8.30am and 5.30pm Monday to Friday or email spirepne@spirehealthcare.com

 

An active patient notification is when we are communicating to more than 10 patients about the concerns we have identified about a consultant's practice.

If you require support through the process, The Patients Association can provide support and guidance. You can contact them on 0800 345 7115 between 9.30am and 5pm Monday to Friday.