US clinic holds its fire on large London unit

Plans for a 200,000 square-foot building in London’s Grosvenor Place leased to the Cleveland Clinic are expected to be made clear shortly.

As we went to press, the US hospital provider said it was ‘studying our options’ for the property.

Mr Hasan Jouni, Cleveland Clinic’s international relations program manager, told Indep­endent Practitioner Today there had been no decision on whether it would be a medical facility.

He said: ‘We’ve acquired the place but we’ve not made any plans or finalised any plans as to what to do with it.’

Independent Practitioner Today reported plans a year ago for private doctors to be given practising privileges in a palatial £600m international hospital in the
city.

Asked if the Cleveland Clinic had a message for independent practitioners, Mr Jouni replied ‘not at the moment’.