Netcare

Netcare
Company typePublic limited company
JSE: NTC
IndustryHealthcare
Founded1996
Headquarters
Sandton, Johannesburg
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Key people
Thevendrie Brewer (Chairman)
Dr Richard Friedland (CEO)
RevenueR 21 005 million (2021)[1]
R 3 794 million (2021) [1]
Number of employees
19 915 [1]
ParentNetcare Group Limited
SubsidiariesNetcare Hospitals

Netcare Cancer Care Netcare 911 Netcare Medicross Akeso Clinics National Renal Care Netcare Plus Netcare Education Netcare Diagnostics

ICAS South Africa
WebsiteNetcare

Netcare Limited is a South African private healthcare company. It operates through a number of subsidiaries and employs just over 21 000 people.

The group offers a range of medical services across the healthcare spectrum and operates South Africa’s largest network of private acute care hospitals as well as emergency medical services, primary healthcare, renal dialysis and mental health services.

Netcare provides the following private healthcare facilities and services:

  • Acute care private hospital services available at 51 owned and managed Netcare hospitals, including two public private partnership (PPP) hospitals, with a total of over 10 000 beds. Three of its hospitals have been accredited as Level 1 trauma centres by the Trauma Society of South Africa (TSSA) and are the only Level 1 trauma centres in the private healthcare sector in South Africa
  •  Radiosurgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, through Netcare Cancer Care at nine dedicated centres; as well as haematology and bone marrow transplants at five centres; paediatric oncology at three facilities, and robotic assisted surgery for cancer at three hospitals
  • Primary healthcare services provided through Netcare Medicross at 77 medical and dental centres countrywide
  • Day surgery performed at 15 day hospitals located either within Netcare Medicross.centres or functioning as free-standing facilities
  • Pre-hospital emergency medical services provided through Netcare 911 by emergency care practitioners. Netcare 911’s fleet of emergency vehicles includes road ambulances as well as helicopter and fixed-wing air ambulances, dedicated mobile intensive care units and rescue vehicles
  • Occupational health and employee wellness services provided through Netcare Occupational Health, contracting with employers ranging from multi-national corporates to smaller enterprises, across all industry sectors
  • Mental health and psychiatric services provided through Netcare Akeso at 12 dedicated facilities
  • Affordable private healthcare products offered through NetcarePlus and aimed primarily at individuals and families without medical cover
  • Chronic renal dialysis services offered through National Renal Care (NRC) at 79 dedicated renal dialysis units countrywide


Netcare is also a private trainer of nursing and emergency medical personnel through Netcare Education’s Faculty of Nursing and Ancillary Healthcare (FNAH) and Faculty of Emergency and Critical Care (FEEC). FNAH provides education and training at five campuses and FECC at two campuses.

Netcare embarked on a digitisation programme in 2018.

Netcare is implementing an integrated, fully mobile patient care system – CareOn - as a key part of its digitisation project.

  1. ^ a b c "Annual Results 2019" (PDF). Netcare. Retrieved 6 January 2020.