# UK specialist HPB cancer centres

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## TL;DR

Where HPB cancer surgery happens in the UK: about two dozen specialist centres, each with a weekly specialist MDT that takes every treatment decision for gallbladder and bile duct cancer in its region.

## Summary

NHS England commissions specialist HPB cancer surgery under service specification 2260 (September 2024), which requires a catchment of at least two million people, 150 liver operations a year for cancer and a weekly specialist MDT. The National Pancreatic Cancer Audit identifies the English centres by trust code (Table 7 of its 2025 methodology supplement, sourced from Pancreatic Cancer UK's centre list); Pancreatic Cancer UK also names the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish centres and AMMF keeps a parallel list of centres with cholangiocarcinoma expertise. This collection links the centres that have OnCo records; the UK and NHS page for gallbladder cancer lists the rest by name.

## Fields

- Kind: Collection
- Last checked: 2026-09-24
- Also known as: NHS hepato-pancreato-biliary cancer centres; HPB specialist centres (NPaCA Table 7)
- Tags: hpb; nhs; uk; centres
- URL: https://www.pancreaticcancer.org.uk/information-and-support/your-care/your-local-pancreatic-cancer-specialist-centre/
- Holds: The NHS trusts and health boards that run specialist hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB) cancer surgery and the specialist MDT for liver, bile duct, gallbladder and pancreatic cancers: 23 English trusts (the National Pancreatic Cancer Audit's Table 7, sourced from Pancreatic Cancer UK), the Scottish regional surgical centres, the South Wales centre and the Belfast Trust.

## Sources

- Pancreatic Cancer UK: your local specialist centre: https://www.pancreaticcancer.org.uk/information-and-support/your-care/your-local-pancreatic-cancer-specialist-centre/
- NPaCA 2025 methodology supplement (Table 7): https://www.natcan.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/NPaCA-SotN-2025-Methodology-Supplement.pdf
- NHS England service specification 2260: https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/2260-hpb-liver-service-specification.pdf
- AMMF: centres with CCA expertise: https://ammf.org.uk/second-opinions-and-liver-disease-centres/

## Connected records

- cancers: [Biliary tract cancer (all types)](https://onco.cc/cancers/biliary-tract-cancer/), [Biliary tract cancer (cholangiocarcinoma)](https://onco.cc/cancers/cholangiocarcinoma/), [Gallbladder cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/gallbladder/), [Hepatocellular carcinoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/hcc/), [Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/pancreatic/)
- fronts: [Surgery & Interventional](https://onco.cc/fronts/surgery/)
- institutions: [Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals](https://onco.cc/institutions/addenbrookes-cambridge/), [AMMF, the Cholangiocarcinoma Charity](https://onco.cc/institutions/ammf/), [Belfast Health and Social Care Trust HPB service](https://onco.cc/institutions/belfast-trust-hpb/), [Bristol Haematology and Oncology Centre](https://onco.cc/institutions/bristol-haematology-oncology-centre/), [Derriford Hospital, University Hospitals Plymouth](https://onco.cc/institutions/derriford-plymouth/), [Glasgow Royal Infirmary](https://onco.cc/institutions/glasgow-royal-infirmary/), [Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust / Imperial College London Cancer Research](https://onco.cc/institutions/imperial-cancer-centre/), [King's College Hospital, London](https://onco.cc/institutions/kings-college-hospital-london/), [Leeds Cancer Centre, St James's University Hospital](https://onco.cc/institutions/leeds-cancer-centre/), [Leicester Cancer Research Centre / University Hospitals of Leicester](https://onco.cc/institutions/leicester-cancer-research-centre/), [Liverpool University Hospitals HPB centre (Aintree)](https://onco.cc/institutions/liverpool-hpb-centre/), [Manchester Royal Infirmary HPB Unit](https://onco.cc/institutions/manchester-royal-infirmary/), [Morriston Hospital, Swansea](https://onco.cc/institutions/morriston-swansea/), [Newcastle Cancer Centre / Northern Centre for Cancer Care](https://onco.cc/institutions/newcastle-cancer-centre/), [Nottingham University Hospitals Cancer Centre (City Hospital)](https://onco.cc/institutions/nottingham-cancer-centre/), [Oxford Cancer (Oxford University Hospitals and University of Oxford)](https://onco.cc/institutions/oxford-cancer/), [Royal Free Hospital, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust](https://onco.cc/institutions/royal-free-hospital/), [Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh](https://onco.cc/institutions/royal-infirmary-edinburgh/), [University College London Hospitals / UCL Cancer Institute](https://onco.cc/institutions/uclh/), [University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff](https://onco.cc/institutions/university-hospital-wales-cardiff/), [University Hospital Southampton / Centre for Cancer Immunology](https://onco.cc/institutions/southampton-cancer/), [University Hospitals Birmingham / University of Birmingham Cancer Research Centre](https://onco.cc/institutions/birmingham-cancer-centre/), [Weston Park Cancer Centre, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals](https://onco.cc/institutions/weston-park-sheffield/)

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