This page is the root page
for the Australian section. It was completely rewritten in
2006 and now provides a broad overview of the
corporatisation of health and aged care in Australia. There
are links to pages which address different sections of the
health system in Australia. Warnings and Policy
Statements I travelled to
the USA in 1993 to obtain documents about National
Medical Enterprises (now called Tenet healthcare).
These documents provided a profound insight into
how the market operated in health care. I soon
realised that the problems were not isolated to
this company but were systemic to the corporate
marketplace. I have tried to make this point and
warn Australia of the dangers since then. Others
have also done so. Governments have had an
ideological health care agenda which has caused
them to disregarded all warnings. Extracts
from "Remission Impossible" : Ron Williams (1992)
The
Hon Michael Wooldridge : Speech to the Australian
Medical Association - May
1996 Dr.
Weedon welcomes Dr. Wooldridge - May
1996 Corporatisation in
Australia Over the years I
have written a number of reviews looking broadly at
different aspects of the corporatisation of health
care in Australia. Some have been put on this web
site. As they were written at different times and
for different purposes there is some
overlap. Corporate
Medicine in Australia The
Dominance of the US market and US marketplace
Ideas THE
GREAT DIVIDE IN PERCEPTIONS about the CORPORATE
MARKETPLACE Privatisation
and the public hospital
system Regulation
in Australia The
Corporatisation of Health Care in
Australia DEFICIENCIES
IN FIRB WELCOMING
MULTINATIONALS IN AUSTRALIA : Some
considerations Politics,
Markets, Health and
Democracy The Scan
Scam See also --
The web pages "Corporate Medicine: I told
you so" and "Corporate Medicine - Hospital
licences" in the section about Columbia/HCA
below. They deal with the control of US style
corporate practices in Australia. Funding
and Rationing in
Australia The
Market, Contracts and the
Bush Published
Papers Building
on Values: The Future of Health Care in
Canada
(pdf file) Hazards
in the Corporatisation of Health
Care
(pdf file) Belief
Versus Reality in Reforming Health
Care
(pdf file) Unpublished Australia's
Experience with Health Reform : Are there lessons
for Canadians?
(pdf file) THE CORPORATE
INVASION OF AUSTRALIAN HEALTH
CARE BY MULTINATIONALS FROM THE USA AND
ELSEWHERE That Ron Williams
dire predictions have not come true may be largely
due to the megacorps serious misconduct in the USA.
Australian authorities and their political masters
were repeatedly embarrassed when concerned citizens
drew the major breeches of Australia's probity
requirements to their attention and publicised
corporate misconduct in Australia. Tenet
Healthcare & National Medical
Enterprises Generale
de Sante Internationale
(GSI) Parkway
Holdings, a Singapore and Malaysian group also
bid for Tenet's hospitals, and was later tipped as
a purchaser of Mayne Nickless. The Tan family
businesses and other Malaysian groups had an
interest in Alpha Healthcare and also in Gribble's
Pathology. Columbia/HCA
(now renamed HCA) Managed care -
Aetna, was involved in some activity in New
Zealand. The Australian AMA were energetically
battling managed care in Australia and had the
matter in hand. I did not get too involved in the
internal politics. Kaiser was snooping around South
Australia. There is some information about Aetna
and Kaiser on the managed
care pages
I wrote in 2003. There is more about Kaiser on the
1997 "I
told you so"
page above and on a 1997 page
of press clippings. AXA Sun
Healthcare Political
Blindness Laboratory
Companies - HEALTHSOUTH
entered Australia in 1997. It had enjoyed
unprecedented success and dominated rehabilitation
in the USA. It appeared to have an unblemished
track record. Success in the competitive health
care corporate marketplace is simply not achieved
in this way. I was suspicious but could do nothing.
In 2003 it was revealed that its success was built
on a US $4 billion fraud which commenced soon after
it was founded in 1986. The Australian subsidiary
participated in one part of this fraud. Australian
authorities have been kept fully informed since the
scandal broke over a year ago but have taken no
action to constrain the company or to warm the
public. Pharmacology
giants - Vista
Healthcare and its National Medical Enterprises
(NME) Heritage Citigroup An article
"Hazards in the Corporatisation of Health
Care" which I wrote was published in New
Doctor in March 2004 <available at
http://www.drs.org.au/>.
It summarises Australia's disturbing record with
multinationals and describes the Citigroup
purchase. TRADE
AGREEMENTS AND AUSTRALIA Australian Hospital
Companies Enthusiasm for
market medicine gripped Australia in the 1980's but
there were early failures, followed by recovery in
the early 1990s. Most of the 1990s were a difficult
period. The market expected to reap large profits
as a consequence of the strong support given to
private insurance and privatised care by the
coalition of liberal and national when it was
elected in 1996. This did not eventuate until 2000
and during the 1990s only some companies made
money. Australian
Hospital
Companies It examines the
consequence of progressive consolidation
of the market until only two large and
very powerful corporations remained For the
larger companies Mayne Health, Alpha
Healthcare, Healthscope, and Ramsay Health
Care see separate panels lower
down. The
American Influence : HCA and
AMI Ian
McGoldrick & Companies : Consolidated
Health Care (CHC), Health and Life Care
(HLC), Superclinics, Supercare, &
more Markalnga
Trust & Australian Medical Enterprises
(AME) James
Hardie & Health Care
Corporation Australian
Hospital
Care Moran
Health Care :
Hospitals Benchmark
Group Nova
Health Insurers
Owning
Hospitals Hospitals
of Australia
HOA) Affinity
Health OTHER
SMALL HOSPITAL
GROUPS Tom
Wenkart and Macquarie
Health For the
larger companies Mayne Health, Alpha
Healthcare, Healthscope, and Ramsay Health
Care see below Until 2003 Mayne was by
far the largest corporate owner of
hospitals in Australia.
It
has been iat the centre of almost every
health care controversy in Australia with
the possible exception of the attempt to
Americanise our healtrh system. Its
conduct illustrates corporate behaviour -
particularly behaviour under
pressure. This
page provides links to the Mayne pages. It
summarises the Mayne story describing how
this wealthy trucking giant switched to
hospitals when exposure of its unsavoury
collusive practices and trucking fraud
rendered trucking no longer
profitable. The
story is told of its struggle to make a
profit from hospitals and the ultimate
revolt of doctors against its
practices. It
eventually sold its hospitals to a
consortium led by a Citigroup subsidiary
and turned itself into a mainly
pharmaceutical company. It
continued to perform poorly and in
November 2005 broke up into a local
company Simbion and an international
company Mayne Pharma. Citigroup
is a US multinational financial
conglomerate with a dreadful track record
for deceiving its customers. Mayne
Nickless 1886 to 1994 - The Early
years The
Collusion and Price Fixing
Scandal The
Dalziel and Catchlove Years 1995
to
2000 Peter
Smedley - The new Doctor on the
Block The
Smedley years June 2000 to Dec
2001 The
Mayne Health Care
Story MAYNE
CRASHES : 2002 and
2003 Mayne
Health becomes Affinity
Health The
Companies Buying Mayne
Health Mayne
Finally Breaks
Up Mayne
Diagnostics and General
Practice Efforts
to Restrict Mayne
Nickless
(Created
June 2004. Completely rewritten Sept 2006 last entry
10/07)
Ron Williams studied the US Medical System and
then politics and economic thinking in Australia.
He was among the first to understand the overall
threat. His dire warnings about the pending US
corporatisation of our health system fell on deaf
ears and his book was hardly read.
Although the labour government had moved
strongly towards privatisation in the early 1990s
it was Dr. Michael Wooldrige, minister for health,
in the Coalition government elected in 1996 who
staked his future on the commodification and
competitive corporatisation of health care. His
aggressive responses to criticism and his
willingness to scheme were his undoing and led to
his ultimate resignation. This is his speech to the
Australian Medical Association explaining his
policies.
Dr. Weedon, president of the Australian AMA
made his dissenting views very clear when he
introduced Dr. Wooldridge prior to his policy
speech. This is his introduction.
I wrote this review in late 1997. It analyses
the application of economic rationalist ideas to
health care comparing what had happened in the USA
with what was happening in Australia. Because
values, trust and integrity are more critical in
health and aged care than any other sector of
society health is at the eye of a wider social
battle between community values and economic
ideology. Like it or not those who work in health
care have been drafted into this war. Their future
depends on it and so perhaps does the prospect of a
society in which economic self-interest is
harnessed by the values and norms of a civil
society of reflective interacting
individuals.
This page was written some time in early 2000
after the chairman of Australia's National
Competition Council (NCC), Graeme Samuel's speech
to the world bank calling for urgent global health
care reform using economic levers. This page
discredits the claims that we are different to the
USA and that these things could not happen
here.
This page looks at market failure in the USA.
It examnes the great divide between the perceptions
of market advocates when contrasted with the way
health professionals, patients and most citizens
perceive and experence the market system in health
care. It goes on to list the red flags which should
alert citizens and regulators in Australia to the
possibility of dysfunction. I wrote this page in
2004 when Primary Health induced the University of
Wollongong to take a page off the web
site.
This page written in 2002 to analyse the
privatisation of public hospitals and colocation
traced the application of market theory and
corporatisation leading up to these processes.
See same page under the privatisation section
below.
This page also written in early 2000 examines
the way in which regulations, which protect
citizens from unsuitable, even criminal corporate
health care corporations, have been undermined in
the corporate interest in Australia. It tells the
story of multiple regulatory failures and the
unsuccessful struggle to get regulators to
regulate.
This page written later in 2000 describes the
Australian government's multiple attempts to
introduce a corporate health care market into
Australia. The strategies used and the depths to
which they sank to accomplish this are
described.
A
criticism of the deficiencies and loopholes in the
FIRB process written early 1998 after the
deficiencies had been exploited to bring Sun
Healthcare into Australia. The problems created for
state regulators and the refusal of federal
governments to do anything about it are
reviewed.
This late 2000 page examines some issues
surrounding overseas ownership of health care in
Australia and some of the social processes and
problems. It needs some editing!
This 2004 web page explores the links and
relationships between political ideology,
politicians, the marketplace, ideas about
democracy, and health care. It describes and
contrasts the role of these factors in the USA and
in
Australia.
This is summarised on the Scan
Scam page.
There is more detail on the Mayne page dealing with
conflicts
of interest.
Radiology was one of the areas of medical practice
turned into a corporate business by government
policy. Doctors were turned into businessmen acting
for their companies, yet the minister of health,
Dr. Wooldridge treated them like disinterested
doctors who would put responsibility to the
community first - something he had destroyed. The
scandal involved Dr. Wooldridge, Mayne Nickless'
Barry Catchlove (the chairman of the HIC), and the
radiologists in the purchase of costly scanners. It
cost Catchlove his post and Wooldridge his
political credibility. The doctors whom they blamed
were largely exonerated.
This page written in early 2000 is a flight of
fancy. It looks at Australia's funding system and
for the purpose of the argument accepts that in
spite of our claimed wealth the rationing of
expensive care is inevitable. It considers the
likely consequences of "rationing for corporate
profit" then creates an idealised future where
citizens decide on health care funding and where
scarce resources are stretched fairly for maximum
benefit rather than shareholders
wallets.
When Graham Samuel, chairman of our National
Competition Council (NCC), in a speech
to the world bank
early in 2000 urgently pressed the bank and
developing nations to adopt a complex competitive
market based health care model I was apoplectic and
gave birth to a litter
of criticisms most
of which appeared on this web site. A large part of
my working life in medicine had been spent in
Africa. To highlight the absurdity of this for
Australian readers I looked at the potential for
such a competitive corporate marketplace for the
dispersed bush residents of Australia and for its
Aboriginal communities. Even Australia's most
extreme economic ideologists had not suggested
anything so
ridiculous for them!
This paper by Wendy Armstrong (from Canada) and
myself examines the report of the Romanow Royal
Commission into health care in Canada and draws
implications for Australia. It was published in the
March 2003 edition of
the
Health
Issues Journal.
A pdf
version
of th paper is here.
A paper of mine "Hazards in the Corporatisation
of Health Care" was published in the Autumn
2004 edition of "New Doctor" <http://www.drs.org.au/>..
It is about corporate medicine in Australia and the
Citigroup led purchase of Mayne
hospitals.
A paper "Belief Versus Reality in Reforming
Health Care"contrasting for-profit with
not-for-profit health care and the implications for
Australia was published in the August 2005 edition
of "Health
Issues".
In 2004 I was asked to speak to an invited group at
a meeting organised by the Consumers' Association
of Canada (Alberta Chapter) and the Seniors' Action
and Liaison Team (SALT). I prepared this as a
background paper. The tittle was not really
appropriate as the thrust of my argument was as
much on the USA as on Australia. What I was trying
to do was to link the dysfunction in health care to
the prevailing ideology in the western world today
and to suggest that health care was where the first
steps could be taken towards a more balanced
society.
Links to the many pages describing their US conduct
are given on the US
section
of the site map. I give here only links to the
central pages of the companies attempting to enter
Australia, and to those sections dealing
specifically with their time in
Australia.
I first became aware of corporate misconduct
when I started making inquiries about National
Medical Enterprises' (NME but later renamed Tenet
Healthcare) operations in Singapore where I had an
unpleasant experience. I decided to take action.
When NME entered Australia in December 1991 it was
in the midst of a US scandal . It departed
Australia in 1996 under a cloud after paying about
$1 billion in fraud settlements in the
USA.
GSI, the largest European hospital owner was
one of the bidders for Tenet's Australian hospitals
in 1995. I played a role with others in unearthing
problems in their UK operations and publicising
them. They dropped out of the bidding
In February 1997 Columbia/HCA, the largest hospital
megacorp in the world announced plans to invest $1
billion in Australia. A scandal was breaking in the
USA at the time. Together with others I gathered
information and lodged objections with the Foreign
Investment and Review Board (FIRB). When the FBI
raided its hospitals in March 1997Columbia/HCA
withdrew from Australia. This was the first step in
the US $1.7 fraud scandal which engulfed the
company. Pages describing this can be accessed from
the US
part of the site
map.
"Implications of the entry of Columbia/HCA into
Australia", the document describing their conduct
at that time and attacking their entry into
Australia was completed in March 1997 only the day
before Columbia withdrew from Australia. Pages from
it can still be accessed from Columbia/HCA's
central page but it is dated. One section of this
Corporate
Medicine in
Australia
comments on the situation here in 1997 and a page
entitled Mayne
Nickless in
Australia
describes Mayne's similar business
practices.
This French multinational insurer took control of
Mutual health insurers in the southern states and
privatised them. It joined with Mayne and the
minister for health in attempting to introduce
managed care style contracts in Australia.
Hospitals succombed but doctors refused. Its
Austraiian health insurance operations were later
acquired by BUPA
Sun Healthcare was a US aged care and step down
care giant which had enjoyed meteoric growth in the
USA. When it entered Australia in 1997 there were
already serious concerns about fraud and about
standards of care in its facilities. It bought into
Alpha Healthcare in Australia and also a bought a
number of hospitals from Moran Healthcare. The
deceptive manner in which it was brought into
Australia, and Dr. Wooldridge's role were of
particular interest. Once again I collected
information, lodged objections and pressed the
issues. The main pages relevant to Australia can be
accessed from Alpha Healthcare below. Sun sold its
Australian holdings after it entered bankruptcy in
the USA in 1999 - and in Australia.
When Sun Healthcare entered Australia in 1997 I
wrote a short piece pointing out that in each
instance politicians had been supplied with vast
amounts of information about multinationals
entering Australia. No one could claim ignorance,
yet despite repeated embarrassment they continued
to bring in US multinationals.
SmithKline Beecham operated laboratories in the USA
and Australia. In 1999 it sold all its laboratories
to Quest Diagnostics. Quest was the laboratory arm
of Corning which had recently been spun off as a
separate company. Both SmithKline and Corning were
central culprits in the fraud exposed by operation
labscam in the 1990s. Hundreds of millions of
dollars in fines were paid. An objection to Quest's
entry to run laboratories in Australia was
ignored.
Most of the multinational pharmaceutical giants
operate in Australia. Many have been
involved
in extensive fraud
in the USA and internationally. In the pursuit of
profits the industry has adopted a number of
socially and humanitarian distasteful
business practices.
In Australia they have made every effort to
undermine
the successful PBS
system
and to push drug prices up using international
trade agreements.
Vista
Healthcare was formed in Singapore in 1996 by Chase
Manhattan bank and the core of Tenet/NME's
international division. It expanded rapidly across
Asia. These people who had been pressured out of
Australia in 1995, because of their conduct, very
quietly bought back into Australian hospitals in
1999. BUPA bought Vista in
2001.(written
in 2000 updated 2005)
After Sun Healthcare and the scan scam Dr.
Wooldridge departed and there was a period of
embarrassed freedom from healthcare multinationals.
However when Mayne Nickless' hospitals were in
trouble they sold internationally again in
preference to a local consortium. Mayne hospitals
were sold in 2003 to a group of venture capitalists
led by CVC Asia Pacific. That this was a part of
Citigroup was concealed from doctors and the
Australian public but not internationally. A
correspondent informed me. Citigroup was at the
time embroiled as a central culprit in the massive
Wall Street fraud scandals. Citigroup's US
misconduct can be accessed from the
US
section of the site
map.
(written 2004)
It is clear that governments have adopted a policy
of to corporatise health in Australia but have not
had the political courage to express this publicly.
US groups supported by their government have sought
to include
health in world trade
agreements
and also in 2004 in bilateral trade agreements
between Australia and the USA. In October 1999 the
Australkain
Doctor's Fund
and the National
Association of Practising Psychiatrists
responded
to pressures on the WTO process with press
releases
"NO
NEED FOR AUSTRALIA TO JOIN INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT
ON HEALTH CARE
SERVICES"
and
"What International Health Care Agreement Will
Do For Sufferers Of Mental Illness".
This web page discusses the background and
the factors influencing the development of
the competitive corporate hospital market
in Australia. It briefly describes the
story of the majority of companies that
have operated hospitals for profit in
Australia and links to pages decribing
each in greater detail.
(Written
10/2005)
The two US hospital multinationals,
HCA and AMI operated in Australia between
1978 and 1991. While neither was
successful they had a profound influence
on political and business thinking. They
laid the foundations for the
corporatisation of health care in
Australia.
(Written
10/2005 Last entry
)
Following a string of failed surgical
proceedures in the 1980s controversial Dr
Ian McGoldrick was barred from practising
medicine although this did not stop him
from doing so. He was associated with two
hospital companies during the 1980's that
were each briefly the largest in
Australia. He contributed to the demise of
both and was involved in a string of other
questionable corporate endeavours.
Everything he touched turned to tears for
those his charisma won over.
(Written 10/2005 Last entry
)
Markalinga Trust was founded by a
group of investors and listed on the
market in 1985. It overspent and was in
trouble by 1991. The fraud plagued US
company, National Medical Enterprises
(NME), bought a controlling holding and it
became Australian Medical Enterprises
(AME). As the scandal in the USA unfolded
NME's probity was challenged by concerned
citizens. NME was forced out of Australia
in 1996 after a complex saga in which
authorities were repeatedly
embarrassed.
(Written 10/2005 Last entry
)
James Hardie the large Australian
multinational at the centre of the
Asbestosis scandal became enthusiastic
about profits from health in the 1980s
investing in American Medical
International, founding Health Care
Corporation (HCC) and investing in health
in the USA. It did not prosper and
struggled to get out of health care
selling HCC into Alpha Healthcare and then
struggling to get out of Alpha without
losing too much money.
(Written 10/2005 Last entry
)
This page describes the steady rise of
Australian Hospital Care (AHC) between
1979 and 1998 to become the second largest
for profit hospital owner in Australia.
Eighteen months after a very successful
float in 1996 market pressures imposed
their rigour on a company that believed
the illusions of the ideology but did not
understand its nature. Losses and
miscalculations left it in a parlous
state. It quickly succumbed to a takeover
in 2000.
(Written 6/2005 Last entry
9/2005)
Moran Health Care is currently a
private for profit operator of nursing
homes. It has also invested
enthusiastically in hospitals and was a
strong advocate for private care with
political connections. Doug Moran is best
known for his failed Taj Mahal style
medical parks targeting wealthy
foreigners, but he had many other business
interests in Australia and
internationally.
(Written 10/2005 Last entry
10/2007)Two
other pages "The Nursing Home
Empire" and "The Moran Family
Story" are listed under the
aged
care
section
below
This page examines Benchmark, a
private for profit hospital company owned
and run by one man. It wanted to list on
the stock market but never did electing
instead to sell itself in 2004. It is an
Australian example of a subgroup in the
for profit system. Unlike publicly listed
companies hospitals in this category
sometimes work well but they are also at
greater risk of abuse.
(Written 5/2005 Last entry
10/2005)
This page examines the upbeat claims made
by this company Nova Health when it
floated in 2002. The page documents its
collapse, resuscitation and finally
takeover by Healthscope in 2005.
(Written 5/2005 Last entry
)
During the 1980s and 1990s many
medical insurers owned and operated
hospitals. When a managed care system
based on competition between hospitals for
contracts with insurers was introduced
this created an impossible conflict of
interest. By the end of the 1990s they had
all sold their hospitals.
(Written 10/2005 Last entry
)
Hospitals of Australia Trust was
floated in 1986 and Mayne Nickless bought
a 29% interest. Mayne increased its
interest, took over management and in 1992
bought out other share holders forming
HCoA. HOA had prospered and grown
(Written 10/2005 Last entry
)
When a group of venture capitalists
led by CVC Asia Pacific, part of the fraud
prone Citigroup, purchased Mayne's
hospitals these were renamed Affinity
Health. Eighteen months later the bulk of
the hospitals were sold to Ramsay Health
Care. Affinity kept 20 hospitals and still
runs them in
2005.
(Written 1/2004 Last entry
8/2005)
A number of smaller groups have
operated over the years and this page
looks at some of them. Only one or two
still operate and the most successful is a
doctor led group called Independent
Private Hospitals of Australia.
Tom
Wenkart, a colleague of Goldridge and the
infamous Edelsten founded Macquarie
Health, a complex set of companies built
around a large pathology business but
including hospitals, medical clinics and a
medical technology business. Like the
other two doctors he indulged in
unacceptable practices, ran into trouble
with the tax office and became
bankrupt..
Access
Page
and
its subsidiary Health Care of Australia
(HCoA) which became Mayne
Health
(Written
1997 Last entry 11/2005)
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Mayne's story prior to the
plea to collusive practices and
fraud in 1994. The development of
a culture of ruthlessness, fraud
and dishonesty and the origin of
its approach to health care.
(Written
Nov 2001 Last entry Aug
2004)
Mayne's behaviour leading up
to the 1994 prosecution for
collusive practices in trucking,
its guilty plea, its fine, and
its aggressive
response.
(Written
Nov 2001 Last entry Mar
2002)
The decision to sell off
trucking and other businesses and
switch to health care as the
company's main business and
theatre for growth. The promise
of profits which never
materialised culminating in
Catchlove and Dalziel's
departures in 2000
(Written
Nov 2001 Last entry Aug
2004)
An analysis of Smedley, the
corporate Mr. Fixit, and his
business practices - what he
brought to Mayne when he came
from Colonial to replace Dalziel
in 2000.
(Written
Nov 2001 Last entry Aug
2004)
The page describes the hope
and surge in share prices as
Smedley embarked on a program of
marketplace restructuring, cost
cutting, and rapid expansion by
takeovers of hospital and drug
companies. Doctors in contrast
felt that care was being
compromised and walked away from
the hospitals causing financial
collapse and Smedley's demise in
2002.
(Written
Nov 2001 Last entry Aug
2004)
The page describes Mayne's
foray into hospitals, its
relationship with doctors and the
issue of patient care versus
profit.
(Written
Mar 2002 Last entry Aug
2004)
This page describes how
Smedley's character and policies
brought Mayne to its knees and
the role which the medical
profession played in this. Mayne
has now been broken up and seems
to be continuing to fragment.
(Written
Aug 2004)
The purchase of Mayne
hospitals by a group of Venture
Capitalist led by CVC Asia
Pacific, a subsidiary of
Citigroup, in a management buyout
- an examination of this process
and its implications.
It records the sale of Affinity
hospitals in 2005
(Written
Jan 2004 Last entry Oct
2005)Affinity
Health Hospital
Licenses
This web page documents
the difficulties Affinity
Health had in securing
licences for its hospitals in
NSW and the implications of
this for the takeover of the
nursing home operator DCA in
2006.
(Written
Sep 2006 Last entry Mar
2007)
An examination of what
happened when these venture
capitalists purchased Mayne
hospitals and the hiding of
information. A review of these
companies and their past
activities. .
(Written
Jan 2004 Last entry Aug
2004)
This web page documents
Mayne's inept management and
steady decline during 2004 and
2005, and its break up into local
and international companies in
November 2005. It also documents
the end of the tarnished Mayne
name as a local operator although
it still tarnishes the
international operation. This new
international drug company is
seen as a likely takeover target.
(Written
Nov 2005)
This web page briefly tells
the story of Mayne's radiology,
diagnostic laboratory and general
practice businesses which
generally underperformed
competitors.
(Written
Nov 2005)
A brief description of my own
attempts over the years to curb
Mayne Nickless and its practices.
The two older pages below have