Clinical Services: Ones to Watch 2026
Clinical Services: Ones to Watch 2026Celebrating the UK’s top privately-owned clinical services companies and exploring key trends
Private sector healthcare is a high-growth, ever-evolving, innovative industry, presenting companies with a diverse array of challenges
UK healthcare is compelled to deliver exceptional care under intense cost pressures. A rising and ageing population with complex illnesses puts pressure on NHS and social care staffing. And, increasing financial constraints across the healthcare ecosystem are driving both the NHS and private sector healthcare to find different strategies.
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Global scale
The global scale of our private healthcare advisory teams offers insight and practical guidance in the UK and internationally.
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Practical experience
Our years of practical industry experience ensure that we know what makes your market unique.
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Sector knowledge
Our technical expertise spans the entire sector: from primary and secondary care providers to medical device companies, retail healthcare providers and healthcare distributors.
Why Grant Thornton
We value your relationship with us and assign you a team that understand your needs and goals. Our team of highly experienced professionals bring financial and operational skills.
Our dedicated healthcare team's technical expertise, commitment to understanding your concerns, and agile approach support you to deliver excellent private healthcare services.
We have diverse experience of private sector healthcare: from outsourcing in the NHS to the health tech industry:
What's happening in the sector?
We understand the diversity of the healthcare sector and the innovation that's driving it forward. Peter Jennings, Head of Private Healthcare, explains the key industry characteristics and trends, and the current M&A opportunities.
Our deep technical expertise in private sector healthcare spans audit, tax, corporate finance, restructuring, debt advisory, valuation, due diligence services and asset management of care home portfolios.
You can explore our services here:
- Corporate finance
- Operational deal services
- Restructuring
- Debt advisory
- Transaction services
- Tax
- Valuations
Awards
Laing & Buisson Financial Adviser Winner 2020
Larchwood Care
Routes Healthcare
"I am very grateful for the diligence, patience and dedicated support received from Grant Thornton. From preparation through to final execution, the guidance, advice and direction was incredibly helpful - notwithstanding the team's sector knowledge being a critical success factor. Thank you to the team for all of the support received, you regularly went over and above the remit to ensure we achieved mutual success for all stakeholders."
Founder
Routes Healthcare
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