Nucleus Healthcare Private Gastroenterology Clinic
Nucleus Healthcare
Spooner Close, Celtic Springs Business Park
Newport South Wales, NP10 8FZ

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'Bottom shop' is now open

Boss’ joy: ‘Private gastroenterology clinic to complement NHS’

DR MANNY Srivastava jokingly calls the UK’s first private gastroenterology unit, in Newport, a “one-stop bottom shop” – but he is serious about its potential to help NHS as well as fee-paying patients.

The £10 million Nucleus Healthcare unit, on the city’s Celtic Springs Business Park, was officially opened yesterday by athletics great Colin Jackson, whose mother, Angela, an endoscopy nurse, worked with Dr Srivastava.

The unit boasts two endoscopy theatres, ten ensuite rooms for patients, outpatient consulting rooms, laboratories, teaching and training facilities and 87 car-parking spaces. It also has the capacity to perform 60 endoscopies a day, along with other gastroenterological investigations on a daycase basis.

“I don’t feel we are in competition with the NHS, but rather,we complement it,” said Dr Srivastava, who is Nucleus Healthcare’s chief executive and medical director, and who worked for 13 years as a consultant gastroenterologist at the Royal Gwent Hospital before leaving to pursue his dream of creating a stand-alone centre.

Private referrals have risen steadily during the unit’s first six months, but Dr Srivastava says Nucleus Healthcare could also help the NHS meet bowel cancer screening programme requirements in Wales – which, it recently emerged, will not be completed until 2015 – charging the service the NHS tariff rate, which is less than half the usual £1,070 rate at his unit.

Whether or not NHS patients are sent to the unit in future, there is much to keep Dr Srivastava and his colleagues busy.

“We have increased the number of staff from 20 to 30 since opening, and have seven consultants involved. I feel we are in a position to take on a lot more work,” said Dr Srivastava.

There is room to build a daysurgery site at Celtic Springs, and the company is looking to develop similar centres.

2 July 2008
 
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