{"entity":{"id":"uk-hpb-specialist-centres","kind":"collection","name":"UK specialist HPB cancer centres","aka":["NHS hepato-pancreato-biliary cancer centres","HPB specialist centres (NPaCA Table 7)"],"tldr":"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.","asOf":"2026-09-24","links":[{"label":"Pancreatic Cancer UK: your local specialist centre","url":"https://www.pancreaticcancer.org.uk/information-and-support/your-care/your-local-pancreatic-cancer-specialist-centre/"},{"label":"NPaCA 2025 methodology supplement (Table 7)","url":"https://www.natcan.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/NPaCA-SotN-2025-Methodology-Supplement.pdf"},{"label":"NHS England service specification 2260","url":"https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/2260-hpb-liver-service-specification.pdf"},{"label":"AMMF: centres with CCA expertise","url":"https://ammf.org.uk/second-opinions-and-liver-disease-centres/"}],"tags":["hpb","nhs","uk","centres"],"related":[],"cancers":["gallbladder","biliary-tract-cancer","cholangiocarcinoma","pancreatic","hcc"],"sections":["surgery"],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["royal-free-hospital","kings-college-hospital-london","imperial-cancer-centre","uclh","addenbrookes-cambridge","birmingham-cancer-centre","leeds-cancer-centre","newcastle-cancer-centre","manchester-royal-infirmary","liverpool-hpb-centre","southampton-cancer","oxford-cancer","nottingham-cancer-centre","leicester-cancer-research-centre","weston-park-sheffield","bristol-haematology-oncology-centre","derriford-plymouth","glasgow-royal-infirmary","royal-infirmary-edinburgh","morriston-swansea","university-hospital-wales-cardiff","belfast-trust-hpb","ammf"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"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.","maintainer":"Pancreatic Cancer UK (list, updated November 2025); 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