Company Profile
Founded by two medical practitioners in 2003, Centric Health has grown rapidly into a diversified international healthcare services company providing medical recruitment, primary care and diagnostic imaging services in Ireland, the UK and Australia.
Our mission is to ‘Strive to keep people healthy in their own community’ by providing a range of innovative and accessible healthcare services in local communities. By investing in primary care services, we passionately believe that offering patients more choice will potentially alleviate some of the burden on our overstretched hospital system.
Centric Health now employs over 300 staff within Ireland, the UK and Australia.
Major Milestones
2003: Using the foundation of the Medical Recruitment Company Locumotion, Centric Health (or The Well) was established as a Primary Care Company.
April 2003: First clinic called ‘The Well’ opens in the Beacon Consultants Clinic in Sandyford, Dublin to provide a comprehensive health screening service. Since its opening in April 2003, The Well has completed over 20,000 executive medicals.
The opening of The Well is followed by the opening of the occupational health practice ‘The Well at Work’ to deal more effectively with the increasing occupational medical needs of The Well’s growing corporate customer base.
February 2005: First GP practice opens on the Navan Road in Dublin. Phoenix Medical is now one of eight GP practices operated by Centric Health. These practices are based on Centric bringing together a number of GP’s into a single location based on a professional partnership structure. These eight practices not only provide GP services but have added a range of additional ‘one stop shop’ services for patients including physiotherapy, counseling, podiatry, audiology and diagnostic ultrasound.
April 2005: Centric enters into a joint arrangement with Vhi Healthcare to operate urgent care clinics in Ireland. The concept behind urgent care was to provide the public with an alternative to attending their A&E with relatively minor injuries and illnesses. Centric opened its first Vhi SwiftCare Clinic in Dundrum in November 2005 and now operates three further clinics in Dublin City University, Airside Retail Park in Swords and Citygate in Mahon, Cork. To date Vhi SwiftCare has seen over 250,000 patients providing a real alternative for many patients who otherwise would have had no alternative but to attend a public A&E Department.
February 2006: Locumotion is fully incorporated into Centric Health. Founded in 2000, Locumotion is the leading medical recruitment company in Ireland providing GPs to work in practices around Ireland and Australia and also provides NCHD and consultants to HSE and private hospitals throughout Ireland.
June 2008: Completes a merger with Global Diagnostics including its international operations in UK and Australia following a successful joint venture with Global Diagnostics in the Ireland in 2007.