18 Week Support

Based in London, UK, and founded in 2014, 18 Week Support is a company that offers healthcare services across the country. The firm was acquired in March 2022 by Summit Partners, a growth capital firm. As of August 2024, the company is led by its CEO, Joshua Collins MBA. 18 Week operates as an insourcing provider to the healthcare industry through the NHS Shared business framework ensuring additional clinical capacity to meet increasing clinical demand.

Insourcing refers to providing a trust or organization with a dedicated clinical team to work closely with an internal team when they have spare capacity, typically on weekends. 18 Week’s specialties include new patients’ services, virtual clinics, follow-up patients and perform a comprehensive range of day cases and some inpatient procedures like endoscopy, and radiology along with expertise in clinical areas like general surgery, ophthalmology, trauma and orthopedics, oral and maxillofacial surgery, gynecology, etc. The company offers 7-day service, 365 days a year. As of August 2022, it has worked with over 80 Trusts and Health Authorities in the UK, including partner networks with the Department of Health, NHS England, NHS Improvement, Number 10, HM Treasury, etc.

18 week generates revenue by charging a proportion of the revenue that 18 week's client (like hospitals, clinics, etc) receives from the CCG for the clinical services provided.