Trends · data through September 2026

Hospitals in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 439 stores from 416 hospital chains in the United Kingdom.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
416
Tracked stores
439
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked hospital chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Medway Maritime Hospital and Southampton General Hospital sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 M Medway Maritime Hospital logo Medway Maritime Hospital - 0.0%
2 S Southampton General Hospital - -16.1%
  • Royal Derby Hospital
  • Cardio
  • Royal Free Hospital London
  • Ysbyty Eryri
  • Queen's Hospital
  • Basildon Hospital
  • Belgravia Hair Centre 1
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

439 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Royal Derby Hospital (1)
  • Cardio (1)
  • Royal Free Hospital London (1)
  • Ysbyty Eryri (1)
  • Queen's Hospital (2)
  • Basildon Hospital (1)
  • Belgravia Hair Centre 1 (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Q Queen Elizabeth Hospital 4
  • 2 M Medway Maritime Hospital logo Medway Maritime Hospital 3
  • 3 S St Mary's Hospital 3
  • 4 S Southampton General Hospital 3
  • 5 N North Bristol NHS Trust logo North Bristol NHS Trust 2
  • 6 W Walsall Manor Hospital logo Walsall Manor Hospital 2
  • 7 A Aintree University Hospital 2
  • 8 M Manchester SLT 2
  • 9 Y York Teaching Hospital 2
  • 10 J James Cook University Hospital logo James Cook University Hospital 2
  • 11 G Grimsby Hospital 2
  • 12 E East Sussex Health Care 2
  • 13 Q Queen Alexandra Hospital 2
  • 14 Q Queen's Hospital 2
  • 15 Y York Hospital logo York Hospital 2
  • 16 D Doncaster Royal Infirmary 1
  • 17 S St Bartholomew's Hospital 1
  • 18 W Warwick Hospital 1
  • 19 E Ealing Hospital 1
  • 20 T The New Forest 1
  • 21 W West Suffolk Hospital 1
  • 22 B Birmingham Heartlands Hospital 1
  • 23 R Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton 1
  • 24 K King's College Hospital 1
  • 25 G Glangwili General Hospital 1
  • 26 L Lincoln County Hospital 1
  • 27 B Burnley General Teaching Hospital 1
  • 28 U University Hospital of North Durham 1
  • 29 H Highdown 1
  • 30 B Bedfordshire NHS PCT 1
  • 31 W Wycombe General Hospital 1
  • 32 E European Care 1
  • 33 K Kingston Hospital 1
  • 34 L Leeds Teaching Hospital Charitable Foundation 1
  • 35 T The Park Hospital 1
  • 36 R Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh 1
  • 37 S St George's Hospital 1
  • 38 C Cramlington Medical Group 1
  • 39 S St Helier Hospital 1
  • 40 S St Richard's Hospital 1
  • 41 S St Michael's Mount & Manor Nursing Home 1
  • 42 R Rotherham General Hospital 1
  • 43 R Royal Blackburn Hospital 1
  • 44 S Saint Mary's Community Health Campus 1
  • 45 L Lyppard Grange Medical Centre 1
  • 46 P Princess Royal Hospital logo Princess Royal Hospital 1
  • 47 M Morpeth NHS Centre 1
  • 48 B Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 1
  • 49 J John Radcliffe Hospital 1
  • 50 E Epsom Hospital 1

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