As one of the National Police Healthcare Scheme’s (NPHS) preferred partners, Practice Plus is an organisation which perfectly aligns with our core value of connecting people to accessible, affordable and high-quality healthcare.
Founded as Care UK in 1982 and rebranded to its current form in 2020, Practice Plus Group stands proud as one of England’s largest independent healthcare providers for both public and private medical treatment.
It is trusted by the NHS to bring patients together with first-class care, while also being relied on to do the same by those who are self-funded or paying into private medical insurance.
The service meets these high expectations primarily through its network of hospitals, surgical centres, urgent care centres and GP practices across the country, where expert clinicians and consultants are on hand to improve lives.
Just like the NPHS, Practice Plus is people-first – understanding that access to healthcare is not always straightforward for some due to financial, practical and psychological barriers, or simply because they are unaware of what’s out there.
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To counter this, it endeavours to find each of its patients a clear pathway to treatment, adapting to various circumstances and offering different options. From here, it is then about standing by them throughout their entire healthcare journey.
Fortunately for us, Practice Plus is also big on partnership to achieve its mission. What’s more, it places a similar emphasis on teaming up not just with any partner, but the right partner.
This selective approach has been instrumental to the organisation’s success over the years. By working alongside trusted providers, commissioners and employers, it has been able to extend its reach while maintaining the standards of care that patients have come to know and expect.
Through its crucial on-site NHS provisions, the service represents another option for people seeking public healthcare, helping to reduce wait times and ensuring positive outcomes for everyone – and crucially, relieving pressure off a public service with consistently high demand.
Practice Plus: In numbers
- A patient base of over one million people treated annually across its network
- Over 5,000 treatments delivered within the last month
- More than 70,000 surgeries have been carried out within the last year across its hospitals and surgical centres
- 97 per cent patient satisfaction rate, who would willingly recommend the service to others
- 100 per cent clean record for hospital-acquired infections
- 69, 980 day-case procedures, 12,429 inpatient procedures, and 297,070 outpatient consultations carried out from March 2024 to April 2025
It is this combination of accessibility, quality and patient-focused support that makes Practice Plus such a valued partner for the NPHS, and one that continues to make lives better across the country every single day.
Through our ongoing relationship, we will remain proud to link the Police Family to a service whose principles and ambitions so closely mirror our own.
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