Market engagement: Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) PPU

OUH is considering options to successfully develop its private patient business. One

option under consideration is to partner with a private hospital operator (or

potentially more than one operator, if different partnerships are created for specific

specialties/sites), and part of OUH’s strategy development process is to engage

with private hospital operators who may potentially be interested in such a

partnership.

OUH would like to evaluate:

• Whether its objectives with regard to private patients are most likely to be achieved

through developing private patient services independently, through a partnership

with a private hospital operator, or through a hybrid model with different solutions

for different specialties;

• The extent to which UK and international private hospital groups are interested in

partnering to jointly develop a successful long-term private patient business across

some or all OUH’s clinical specialties and sites;

• In broad terms, what type of commercial and operational structures would be most

attractive to potential partners; and

• What benefits private partners believe they can bring which would result in a more

successful private patient business than OUH might achieve acting independently.