International Medical Management (IMM), the healthcare and emergency medical support specialist, has invested £200,000 in establishing its first UK clinic in Aberdeen, creating nine new jobs.
IMM has operated internationally for the past 10 years, supporting clients such as Acergy, Entrepose, Premier Oil, Sonacergy, Trinity International Services and Petronas. Its services are delivered by 13 doctors, four paramedics and two administrative staff.
The Aberdeen operation will have nine staff including three doctors led by senior occupational health physician Dr Elizabeth Wright, who was medical director to one of the energy sector's major healthcare providers from 2003 to 2011 before establishing her own consultancy.
Dr Wright is a Fellow of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians, London, and a chartered member of the Institute of Safety and Health.
The operation, based at Alliance House on Bon Accord Square and offering four consulting rooms, will provide offshore medical services, corporate health and wellbeing sessions, and healthcare consultancy.
Dr Jean Francois Foucher, director of IMM, said: "There has long been a need for additional corporate medical care provision in Aberdeen, to increase the resource available to the energy sector, public and private sector organisations.
"Establishing our UK headquarters in the oil capital of Europe allows us to deliver support to existing Aberdeen-based clients with the potential to open a second clinic in Aberdeen a key part of our growth plan."
IMM was founded in 2004 and its services include health and safety training and medical and environmental audits.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article