Supra regional centres provide specialised services ranging from heart and liver transplants, craniofacial services, to eye and bone cancer treatments. Some services have more than one centre and each centre serves a population larger than any single Health Authority.

Supra Regional Services and Hospitals: 1996/7:

Choriocarcinoma:

• Weston Park Hospital, Sheffield

• Charing Cross Hospital, London

Craniofacial:

• Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London

• Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford

• Children's Hospital, Birmingham

Endoprosthetic Bone Replacement for Primary Bone Tumours:

• Royal National Orthopaedic and Middlesex Hospitals, London

• Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham

Heart Transplantation:

• Harefield Hospital (in association with the Royal Brompton Hospital)

• Northern General Hosptial, Sheffield

• Papworth Hospital, Cambridge

• Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester

• Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London

• St George's Hospital, London

• Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham

• Freeman Hospital, Newcastle

Liver Transplantation:

• St James's University Hospital, Leeds

• Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham

• King's College Hospital, London

• Royal Free Hospital, London

• Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge

• Freeman Hospital, Newcastle

Paediatric Liver Services:

• King's College Hospital, London

• Children's Hospital, Birmingham

Severe Combined Immunodeficiency and Related Disorders:

• Newcastle General Hospital

• Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London

Retinoblastoma:

• St Bartholomew's Hospital, London