| Industry | healthcare |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Brentford, London, UK |
| Key people | Peter Gershon, Chairman Stephen Collier, Chief Executive |
| Revenue | £855m (2010)[1] |
| Parent | Netcare |
| Subsidiaries | BMI Healthcare, CARE Fertility |
| Website | www.generalhealthcare.co.uk |
General Healthcare Group PLC (GHG) is a British healthcare company. It owns BMI Healthcare, the UKs largest private hospital group, and is the major shareholder of CARE Fertility. BMI runs around 70 hospitals nationwide.
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The name "General Healthcare Group" dates to 1993, when AMI, a US for-profit hospital provider which had expanded into the UK in the 1970s, renamed itself BMI Healthcare, creating GHG as its corporate group name. AMI had been floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1988, and acquired by Generale de Santé (a subsidiary of Generale des Eaux) in 1990.[2]
In 1997 both Generale de Santé and GHG were acquired by private equity group Cinven, with BMI's international activities transferred to Generale de Santé, leaving BMI Healthcare active only in the UK. In 1998 Amicus Healthcare Group was acquired from Compass Group and merged into GHG. Cinven sold GHG to another private equity group in 2000, and a consortium led by South African healthcare group Netcare acquired the company in 2006.[2]
In 2008 BMI purchased nine hospitals from Nuffield Health to build on their existing BMI Healthcare business.[2]
BMI hospitals include
Chaucer Hospital Canterbury