2006
PA acquires the assets of London International Healthcare, extending its international healthcare management consulting business
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02 June 2006
PA Consulting Group, the leading management, systems and technology consulting firm, announced today a major addition to its capability in international healthcare management consulting.
PA has acquired London International Healthcare Ltd (LIH), an international healthcare consultancy with a significant 10-year track record of working with governments, aid agencies and private sector clients in over 20 countries in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
This acquisition will develop PA's capability and profile in international healthcare and will enable PA to leverage its UK health work in other OECD countries and offer international health management consultancy to aid agencies operating in emerging markets.
LIH's Managing Director, Howard Lyons, joins PA in the Infrastructure and development services practice and will lead the development of PA's international healthcare management business. Howard brings over 30 years' experience of healthcare management, working in more than 60 countries for public and private sector clients including projects funded by the World Bank, UN and European Union, as well as numerous National Health Service hospitals and health authorities.
Howard Lyons, head of International Healthcare management consulting at PA, commented:
"I am delighted to be joining PA at a time when international healthcare consulting is in the ascendancy. Never has the term 'global village' been more applicable to health as countries not only exchange personnel but are also keen to learn from each other on technology, systems, policies and practices. I'm looking forward to building on PA's strengths, working through their 35 offices worldwide and leveraging our existing experience to grow the business in some exciting new markets."
Ken Rubin, head of Infrastructure and development services at PA, said:
"PA's healthcare capability already spans technology development and delivery, consulting services for life science companies, through to supporting the health sector on healthcare delivery and reform. With LIH's track record and Howard's experience, PA can now also offer international healthcare management - both to OECD and to developing countries. I and everyone in PA's Health sector team are looking forward enormously to working with Howard."
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Notes to editors
1. International healthcare market
The market for international healthcare management is huge. It is actually two distinct global markets: one focusing on health in OECD countries, the other on developing countries via the international aid agencies. It encompasses health sector reform, health policy development and regulation, hospital re-structuring, performance improvement, clinical services re-design, IT benefits realisation, PPPs, leadership development, management training, market analysis, business development and market entry strategies. In developing countries, the emphasis is on making best use of scarce resources and mitigating the impact of the most devastating diseases such as HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria.
2 . PA Consulting Group
PA Consulting Group is a leading management, systems and technology consulting firm. Operating worldwide in more than 35 countries, PA draws on the knowledge and experience of 3,000 people, whose skills extend from the initial generation of ideas, insights, solutions and new technology, all the way through to detailed implementation.
From the development of innovative strategies and solutions right through to their successful delivery, all of our work and support is based on deep sector insight and expertise. We work across the private and public sectors, with particular strengths in financial services, energy, life sciences and healthcare, government and public services, manufacturing, defence, and telecommunications. We help our clients to design optimum strategies for growth, deliver effective IT that improves business performance, mobilise human resources, deliver complex programmes and major business transformations, and develop breakthrough products and processes through our unique applied technology capability.
As an employee-owned company, with no audit arm nor exclusive alliances with third-party vendors or service providers, we are answerable only to ourselves and our clients. This independence means the advice we give to clients, and the work we deliver, are based only on what is best for our clients’ business. We will, however, work in non-exclusive alliances on specific programmes when it is in the best interests of our clients.
PA’s independent, benefits-driven approach is founded on our strength in innovation, our responsiveness to our clients’ needs, and our unyielding focus on delivery:
Innovation. Innovation comes in a variety of forms - in how customers' needs are identified and satisfied, in business models, in motivating and aligning staff, in the use of technology, and many more. PA has an unsurpassed track record in innovation, from developing pharmaceutical anti-counterfeiting measures and wireless technologies, to helping launch an innovative online bank, to development work that is helping alleviate poverty and boost the economies of developing countries.
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Delivery. At PA, delivering client value is ingrained in our culture. We focus on detailed implementation, with a renowned track record of delivering innovative solutions that achieve lasting change. At PA, we see projects right through to the finishing line - and beyond - delivering significant and measurable value to our clients.
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