Athera Healthcare acquires Newgate Technology

Insight and data-driven health technology provider, Athera Healthcare has announced the acquisition of hospital management systems’ experts, Newgate Technology.  

Founded in 1993, Newgate Technology works across the NHS and private healthcare sector in the UK and Ireland.

It provides a wide range of digital clinical management tools which are used extensively across critical departments within acute care.

From digital solutions to help hospital teams schedule operations, allocate the resource and surgical equipment needed, to tracking patients’ peri and post-operative journeys.

Through to the technology being used within emergency departments to help with case prioritisation and early identification of delays and bottlenecks.

Newgate Technology’s suite of surgical support also extends to specialist software to help track and trace surgical instruments.

We’re delighted to announce this partnership with Newgate Technology,

said Gordon Cooper, CEO of Athera Healthcare.

 Our aim is to bring together the very best health technology innovation and people so we can advance care and spark real, industry-wide change.

To achieve that, you need to provide an ever-evolving suite of digital tools which help to address some of the biggest challenges faced within healthcare. And you don’t get much bigger than record high surgical waiting lists and emergency departments bursting at the seams.

The acquisition comes just weeks after Athera Healthcare unveiled its new brand identity to the market and shared its strategic vision to advance patient care by investing in innovation and acquiring new technologies.

Newgate Technology will now join Athera Healthcare’s existing offering which includes, Athera Insights and traceability and inventory management solution, Athera FingerPrint.

Adam Watson, Newgate Technology’s managing director said:

We’re delighted to join forces with Athera Healthcare. Their passion and dedication for continued digital and data-based innovation within healthcare matches our own. This partnership marks an exciting new chapter for both of us.

This was made possible due to investment from funds managed by Aliter Capital. Greig Brown, Aliter partner said,

The acquisition of Newgate Technology supports Aliter’s strategy of developing a scaled, UK provider of healthcare technology solutions. The team at Aliter is excited to work with Athera in the next phase of its development, especially in the field of data insights for the benefit of population health.

This latest deal is consistent with Aliter’s investment strategy of acquiring and integrating smaller businesses to create sophisticated, professional medium sized operators within fragmented markets. Aliter focuses on using its deep industrial expertise and broad networks to help drive both organic and acquisitive growth, to gain scale and a national footprint.