Icon Care cancer care provider expands to UK
Australia’s largest integrated provider ofcancer care, Icon Group, backed by private equity firm EQT, is expanding its services into the UK after penning a new deal with Nuffield Health, the nation’s biggest healthcare charity.
The organisations are working to develop the first phase of the partnership, with a focus on the delivery of radiotherapy.
Icon has a growing business in New Zealand and Asia, in Singapore, China, and Hong Kong, but this marks its first move into the UK.
Icon Group, run by CEO Mark Middleton, has expanded services to the UK.
Icon chief executive Mark Middleton sees scope to offer its oncology services in about half of the 36 Nuffield hospitals, and believes there is room to eventually partner with England’s stretched National Health Service, as part of “a very broad UK rollout plan”.
“COVID has had a significant impact on cancer care worldwide, but also in the UK. We think that we can partner with Nuffield initially, and take Icon’s Australian expertise and be part of a solution to help the UK more broadly,” Mr Middleton told The Australian Financial Review.
“I’m really interested in working closely with government as well and being a partner to someone like the NHS and seeing how we can be part of the solution. We’ve done it in Australia, and we’d love to be part of the conversation in the UK.”
Mr Middleton said the partnership would prioritise personalised treatment plans and cutting-edge treatments to deliver the highest standards of care and improved outcome for patients. Nuffield is a not-for-profit hospital group that operates a network of hospitals, 114 fitness and wellbeing centres, medical centres and workplace wellbeing facilities.
Icon already works with Australia’s largest private
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