How it started
History
The business was launched as The Medical Property Investment Fund in 2003 and became listed on the London Stock Exchange in that year. The name was changed to Assura Group in 2006. In 2008 the company bought new premises for expansion in Halton. Assura sold its Assura Medical division to Virgin Group in 2010, which rebranded it as Virgin Care.
It acquired AH Medical, another primary healthcare business, in 2011. It named Graham Roberts, a former finance director of British Land Company, as chief cxecutive in March 2012. In June 2012 it decided to convert to Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) status.
The company was the subject of an initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange in January 2015.
In July 2016, Assura announced that its chief executive Graham Roberts had died of cancer. The company appointed its financial director, Jonathan Murphy, as its interim chief executive and he was confirmed on a permanent basis in February 2017.
At the beginning of 2021, the company acquired Apollo Capital Projects, increasing its pipeline by an initial eight schemes and expanding the company's offering to the NHS.
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