• Become a global, integrated healthcare organisation.
• Develop and implement successful solutions to provide quality, affordable healthcare to the people of South Africa and globally by inspiring our people, creating new healthcare horizons and delivering value to all stakeholders.
• Be a leading corporate citizen, proud of our heritage and what we contribute to society.

The South African business

In South Africa, Netcare provides the following services:

• Our private hospital and trauma services comprise 53 owned hospitals and 4 managed hospitals, 3 of which are Public Private Partnerships.  Netcare has 8,713 registered beds, 319 operating theatres and 87 retail and hospital pharmacies. Netcare’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Netcare 911, operates the largest private emergency service in the country with over 7,8 million insured lives and a fleet of over 200 response vehicles and ambulances, and 3 helicopter and 2 fixed-wing air ambulances.
• The Primary Care Division operates medical and dental provider services through Medicross, as well as a managed care organisation that focuses on the low income market, extending healthcare to previously uninsured lives through Prime Cure. This includes a national footprint of 108 Medicross and Prime Cure Medicentres, with 41 retail pharmacies and 12 day-theatres. A group of 590 independent doctors and dentists provide comprehensive primary health services to about 3,5 million patients, funded through private medical aid insurance, managed care capitation premiums or self pay arrangements.
• The Prime Cure managed care organisation manages a current cohort of 254,000 capitated lives across 49 medical scheme options, ranging from primary to full risk options. The managed care business manages a designated provider network of more than 10,000 health service providers which includes 3,877 contracted doctors and dentists.
• The Medicross Provider Group was acquired as a 100% subsidiary by the Netcare Group in 2001, and the Prime Cure Group was acquired by Medicross in 2006.

The UK business

In 2001 Netcare entered the UK market to provide specialised healthcare services on contract to the National Health Services (NHS). In May 2006, Netcare acquired a controlling 50,1% interest in General Healthcare Group (GHG). GHG owns BMI Healthcare (BMI), the largest private acute care hospital provider in the United Kingdom. In August 2006 Netcare UK merged with GHG’s NHS service provider business, Amicus, to operate as a single service provider.

The United Kingdom business provides the following key services:

• Private hospital services through BMI, operating 56 acute care private patient hospitals with 2,907 registered beds, 152 operating theatres and 37 pharmacies.
• NHS services through Netcare UK, an established independent service provider to the NHS, operating surgical centres, ophthalmic units (specialising in cataract operations) and an NHS Walk-in Centre in Leeds.

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