Our History

For over forty five years, we have been providing a clean, safe and welcoming environment for healthcare and treatment.

The site was originally a Pilkington family home. It was officially opened as a hospital by Brigadier Sir Douglas Crawford on 23rd November 1979 and admitted the first patients in January 1980.

The freeholds of Fairfield and Crank House were purchased by The Guy Pilkington Memorial Home Limited in 1986.

The site has grown from its original twelve purpose-built bedrooms and one theatre to a hospital which has 2 main theatres and a treatment room with 28 bedrooms and 10 outpatient consultation rooms.

In April 2025, Circle Health Group, the UK’s largest private hospital operator completed the acquisition of Fairfield Independent Hospital with the intention to continue to build on the hospital’s impressive record of delivering secondary care treatment to patients across St Helens, Merseyside and further afield.