Harmoni was a provider of outsourced healthcare services including
Out-of-hours services,
NHS 111, prisoner healthcare and IT services. It provided NHS services to more than eight million people in the UK.
It was created by a merger of
ECI healthcare investment's WCI Group’s IT services division and the Harmoni GP cooperative. It was the most successful out-of-hours provider in winning the Government’s
NHS 111 contracts in 2012.
It was sold in 2012 by
ECI Partners to
Care UK for about £50 million.
The company claimed that it made no profit out of the out-of-hours market. The Chair of Camden's Health Scrutiny Panel said the company won the Out-of-hours contract for Camden not on quality, but on price. They described the service as a
loss-leader
A loss leader (also leader) is a pricing strategy where a product is sold at a price below its market cost to stimulate other sales of more profitable goods or services. With this sales promotion/marketing strategy, a "leader" is any popular articl ...
. It lost the contract for Hackney to the
GP co-operative, City and Hackney Urgent Healthcare Social Enterprise in October 2013.
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Private providers of NHS services
Health care companies of the United Kingdom
2012 mergers and acquisitions