Our history

We become the first FTSE250 B Corp. We celebrate 20 years in business and set out on our 2030 strategy. We launch our refreshed ESG strategy ‘The Bigger Picture’ which is underpinned by our three key pillars Healthy Environment (E), Healthy Communities (S) and Healthy Business (G). Ensuring that social impact and sustainability is at the heart of everything we do. We complete our 100th development in Prestbury and expand our portfolio across both Ireland and private markets, including a £500 million acquisition of 14 private hospitals.

 We secure planning permission for the landmark Northumbria Health and Care Academy at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, fund the new West Midlands Ambulance Service hub in Sandwell - the biggest of its kind in the country - and acquire Coldharbour Works in Brixton, a refurbished former corn merchant's premises which now houses renal, neuroscience and liver research, clinical coding and research innovation work for King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. We complete our net zero design guide to shape future schemes.  

As the COVID-19 pandemic rages, our full portfolio and skills are offered to support the NHS response with vacant space for respiratory care, land for staff car parking and temporary reconfigurations put into action and just under one in ten of our buildings are designated as vaccination centres. We achieve a national first for the property sector with the launch of our landmark £300m social bond. The Assura Community Fund is created and we publish our social impact strategy.

Government accepts most of Sir Robert’s recommendations, including the need for £10bn of investment across the NHS estate, with around £3bn coming from private capital.

Assura is assigned an Investment Grade rating of A- (stable outlook) by Fitch Ratings Ltd and raises £300m via a 10 year 3% unsecured listed bond.

The GP Forward View is published, highlighting the role of fit-for-purpose premises in the future of primary care

Assura plc becomes our ultimate holding company. The NHS’ Five Year Forward View is published, stating that the future "no longer sees expertise locked into often outdated buildings," and promising the expansion of funding to upgrade primary care infrastructure

The Health and Social Care Act comes into force, creating clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) with oversight of GP premises decisions. Blackpool Civic Trust awards Moor Park Health and Leisure Centre, complete with its innovative SUDS drainage system, its 2012 New Building title

Assura Medical division is sold to VirginCare. Freshney Green Primary Care Centre in Grimsby is named ‘Primary Care Development of the Year’ by HealthInvestor magazine

We open Waters Green Medical Centre, Macclesfield, which serves the largest combined patient list size in England at over 60,000 patients

Our former parent company, “The Medical Property Investment Fund Limited” is listed and we invest in our first 19 primary care buildings, including Wide Way Medical Centre – now the site of one of our biggest extensions to an existing medical centre