Vanguard Healthcare, which operates the UK national fleet of mobile operating theatres, has been acquired by its management from Nuffield Health, the UK’s largest healthcare charity.
Vanguard Healthcare MBO will drive company forward
The original founders of the business have re-joined the management in order to strengthen and support the team. Vanguard’s business provides equipped mobile healthcare facilities with staff to healthcare providers throughout the UK and Ireland. The fleet now includes mobile operating theatres, day surgery units, endoscopy suites, recovery wards and clinics. In November last year, the 100,000th NHS procedure was carried out on board a Vanguard mobile. Vanguard Healthcare was acquired by Nuffield Health in 2004 and has benefited from significant investment, enabling the fleet to increase to 36 – the largest such fleet in the world. “The MBO will enable the company to explore additional areas of commercial activity, including international markets,” said chief executive Ian Gillespie. “Our core market will remain our partnership with the NHS where we continue to have a very strong order book.”
