University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

What University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust does

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust (UHCW) is a public-sector NHS acute hospital trust operating two major hospitals — University Hospital in Coventry and Hospital of St Cross in Rugby — together with community services including the City of Coventry Health Centre. Founded in 1992 (Trust formally established 2000), it serves a population of over one million people across Coventry and Warwickshire in the West Midlands, delivering the full range of NHS secondary and tertiary services: emergency medicine, elective and trauma surgery, maternity, cancer treatment, interventional radiology, reproductive medicine, diabetes and endocrinology services via the WISDEM centre, and a multi-disciplinary radiology service performing over 350,000 diagnostic examinations per year across 4 CT scanners, 4 MRI scanners, ultrasound, X-ray, and PET-CT modalities.

The trust operates a proprietary digital stack including the Electronic Patient Record with Integrated Care Record interoperability, the myhealth Coventry and Warwickshire patient portal, live waiting time dashboards, and the HEARTT (Health Equity and the Right to Treatment) analytics tool developed in-house by the Performance and Informatics team. It was the first healthcare organisation in Europe to leverage process mining effectively via a partnership with IBM and Celonis, and in November 2024 became the first UK trust to deploy the AURA 10 mobile PET-CT imager (from Belgian vendor XEOS) for intraoperative tumor margin assessment during cancer surgery as part of the eXcision study.

Revenue is derived almost exclusively from NHS England commissioning via the Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care System, with services provided free at the point of use and a small private patient income stream via the Centre for Reproductive Medicine. The trust is governed as a public benefit entity with no external shareholders, and supplements public funding through the UHCW Charity and donations (such as Friends of St Cross contributions to the Fern Unit). Research is conducted via strategic partnerships with the University of Warwick, Warwick Medical School, University of Nottingham, and Imperial College London, and in January 2026 the trust co-launched VerIQ Limited, a University of Warwick spin-out focused on accelerating medtech and orthopaedics clinical trials across the UK.

Name

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

Legal name

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

Website

https://uhcw.nhs.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

5,001–10,000 employees

Short description

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust is a public NHS acute hospital trust operating University Hospital Coventry and Hospital of St Cross Rugby, delivering comprehensive secondary and tertiary care to over one million residents in the West Midlands under NHS England commissioning.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Acute Hospital Healthcare Services

NAICS

General Medical and Surgical Hospitals (6221), General Medical and Surgical Hospitals (622110), Hospitals (622)

SIC

Services-Hospitals (8060), Services-General Medical & Surgical Hospitals, Nec (8062)

akta.pro primary industry

Faith-Based & Nonprofit Hospital Systems (HLAFAAAE)

Keywords

• Acute hospital services
• Emergency medical care
• Diagnostic imaging services
• Cancer treatment services
• Maternity healthcare services

Headquarters

HQ city

Coventry

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. NHS Core Funding: Core funding from the UK National Health Service through NHS England and NHS commissioning. Services are commissioned based on population health needs through the Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care System.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust (UHCW) operates two major NHS hospitals (University Hospital Coventry and Hospital of St Cross, Rugby) delivering comprehensive acute, emergency, elective, maternity, cancer, and specialist clinical services to a population of over one million people across Coventry and Warwickshire. The trust provides diagnostic imaging, interventional radiology, surgery, and specialized services including reproductive medicine, diabetes/endocrinology, and voice/swallowing care. It also conducts clinical research, trials, and innovation projects in partnership with UK universities.

Product overview

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust operates as a large NHS hospital trust managing two major hospitals (University Hospital, Coventry and Hospital of St. Cross, Rugby) serving over a million people. The trust provides a comprehensive range of clinical services including emergency medicine, surgery, maternity, cancer care, and specialized services such as the Centre for Reproductive Medicine (IVF), WISDEM (diabetes/endocrinology/obesity), and interventional radiology. The trust has developed digital patient services including the myhealth Coventry and Warwickshire patient portal for online appointment booking and health records access, live waiting times tracking, and electronic patient record systems. The Performance & Informatics department has developed proprietary health technology tools including the HEARTT tool for health equity and waiting list management.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• UHCW Charity: Charitable arm of the trust supporting hospital services and equipment
• WISDEM
• Centre for Reproductive Medicine

Products and services

• Centre for Reproductive Medicine
• WISDEM
• Coventry Voice, Swallowing and Airway Centre (CVASC)
• Radiology Services
• Interventional Radiology
• myhealth Coventry and Warwickshire Patient Portal

Quantifiable outcome

• 350,000+ diagnostic examinations performed annually across all imaging modalities
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

14 partnerships are on record, tiered core and major.

• University of WarwickcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 11 January 2026Launched VerIQ Limited, a spin-out company in partnership with UHCW NHS Trust to accelerate the design, initiation, and delivery of clinical trials for medical devices and health technologies across the UK. Creating an integrated national clinical trial platform focused initially on orthopaedics and wider medtech trials.
• Warwick Medical SchoolcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch partnership with researchers from University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire and Warwick Medical School presenting GLP-1 drug findings at ENDO 2026 conference.
• University of NottinghammajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLed the FreeDM2 clinical trial on continuous glucose monitoring for type 2 diabetes, with findings published in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology.
• Imperial College LondonmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-led the FreeDM2 clinical trial on continuous glucose monitoring for type 2 diabetes.
• University of WarwickmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerUniversity of Warwick-led study evaluating the Gro Health W8Buddy digital weight management pathway, NIHR-funded real-world patient-choice study recruiting 450 participants.
• Friends of St CrosscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCharitable organization that donates equipment and volunteers to support the Hospital of St Cross. Donated over £70,000 to support the Fern Unit including a new ultrasound machine and two ultrasound couches.
• XEOS (Belgian Company)coreTechnology or IntegrationManufacturer of the AURA 10 mobile PET-CT imager, first used in the UK at UHCW for intraoperative tumor margin assessment during cancer surgery.
• University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation TrustmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner trust in the SHiP-Rt study on shortened high-dose palliative radiotherapy for lung cancer.
• University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS TrustmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner trust in the SHiP-Rt study on shortened high-dose palliative radiotherapy for lung cancer.
• The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS TrustmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner trust in the SHiP-Rt study on shortened high-dose palliative radiotherapy for lung cancer.
• Warwick Medical SchoolcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerContributing oncologists, clinical scientists, radiotherapy physicists and radiobiology experts to the SHiP-Rt study.
• IBMmajorTechnology or IntegrationCollaborative partner in developing the HEARTT tool and outpatient transformation, winning HSJ Best Healthcare Analytics Award 2024.
• CelonismajorTechnology or IntegrationPartner in process mining for healthcare, enabling UHCW to become the first healthcare organization in Europe to leverage data mining effectively.
• Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care SystemcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSystem partnership coordinating health and care services across the region, working with P&I Informatics team for timely and accurate intelligence.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Market position

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/nhsuhcw

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

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M&A

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