Your Partner In Patient Care
With a staff of 150, active in the market and based at offices in Belfast, Dublin, East Midlands and South West England, HSL is one of the largest privately-owned distributors supplying the health sector with hospital supplies. In addition to supplying market leading technologies and solutions to our customers, HSL’s team provides on-going technical and clinical support to the end-user of our products.
With financial backing from the Foresight Group, a leading independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager with over £2.7 billion of assets under management HSL is led by Dominic Walsh and a widely experienced management team.
With a staff of 150, active in the market and based at offices in Belfast, Dublin, East Midlands and South West England, HSL is one of the largest privately-owned distributors supplying the health sector with hospital supplies.
Chief Executive
Dominic is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer and a highly experienced business leader with experience in engineering, manufacturing and distribution.
Group Chief Financial Officer
Graham, a Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA) joined HSL as Finance Director in 2016 with a wealth of business strategy experience gained as a Corporate Finance Advisor in PwC.
Service Director
HSL’s Service Director since 2016 is Alan Milliken, he is a qualified Engineer and has more than 30 year’s experience in Engineering Management both locally and for International companies.
Chairman
Christopher Langley is a highly experienced CEO, Chairman, and NED with a strong track record in both the retail and healthcare sectors.
Director
James joined Foresight Group in 2007 from Deloitte’s Strategy Consulting team where he advised businesses in the healthcare and technology sectors.
Chief Operating Officer
Mark, a Chartered Member of Institute of Personnel & Development, joined HSL as Chief Operating Officer in 2023, with significant previous Leadership experience in Human Resources and Operational roles.
Hospital Services Limited is a specialist distributor of medical supplies and surgical equipment and consumable products, servicing public and private hospitals across the UK and Ireland.
HSL was incorporated by John Joseph Elliot as an Xray service engineering company.
The business was then taken over by the sons Martin and Edmund Elliot.
HSL appointed as the Shimadzu agent for the whole of Ireland.
HSL named the exclusive Hologic agent across Ireland.
Appointed as Canon distributer in Ireland.
HSL was acquired by Foresight Group with Dominic Walsh leading as Chief Executive.
Appointed as Richard Wolf sole agent across the whole of Ireland.
Ergoviewing was acquired by HSL.
Appointed as distributer for Konica Minolta for Radiology across the UK and Ireland.
Set up of Telehealth division with expansion of the business across Great Britain. Became a reseller partner for Zoom across the Healthcare sector in the UK and Ireland.
Acquired MDi Medical.
Acquired Video South.
Acquired Fleetwood Healthcare.
Acquired Orca Medical.
HSL Celebrating 60+ years in business
Hospital Services Limited, HSL, is committed to serving its customers by supplying quality products and services and aims to be the supplier against who others in the healthcare industry are compared.
The Quality System we have implemented to achieve this is designed to comply with ISO9001. This Quality System has been developed in conjunction with the staff in the company, in consultation with our customers and their needs, and with input and support from our suppliers. All staff are aware of the role they must play in delivering quality products and services and are fully committed to its implementation and development.
Recognising the need to continue to achieve ever higher standards, HSL is committed to providing ongoing training for all our employees to maintain and improve the level of the Quality System and its positive impact on our business and for our customers and suppliers.