Sonic Healthcare is one of the world's largest medical diagnostics companies. Our independently operated practices provide pathology and radiology services to medical practitioners, hospitals, community health services and their collective patients.

We owe our continued success to our commitment to:

  • the doctors who request pathology and radiology services of us
  • our patients
  • our staff members, and their technical and operational excellence.

All Sonic Healthcare practices share certain fundamental characteristics:

OUR PRACTICES ARE MEDICALLY LED

  • Our core business is supplying diagnostic medical services (pathology and radiology) to medical practitioners.
  • We employ over 470 specialist pathologists and radiologists and many hundreds of medical scientists and technicians.
  • We believe that our colleagues are best served by practices led by those familiar with the needs of the medical community.

Therefore we pursue a policy of direction by medical personnel, from Board level to the day-to-day management of our practices.

OUR PATIENTS ARE OUR FOREMOST CONCERN

  • The principal aim of our business is to assist in the care of our patients.
  • We provide convenient facilities with an emphasis on privacy and personalised, prompt care.
  • We will go 'the extra mile'.

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WE ARE 'PEOPLE' PRACTICES

  • Our referring doctors have individual needs and we aim to tailor our service accordingly.
  • We invite direct contact from doctors, and pride ourselves on our responsiveness and the accessibility of our pathologists and radiologists.
  • We believe that the happiness and professional wellbeing of our staff are crucial to the continued growth and success of our practices. Our staff are our most valuable asset.
  • Sonic Healthcare employs over 15,000 people in its operations in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, USA and Germany.

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WE ARE A PART OF OUR LOCAL COMMUNITIES

  • Our employees derive satisfaction from supporting health care within their own communities.
  • They are able to bring to their communities the corporate-wide resources of Sonic Healthcare.
  • And they return to Sonic Healthcare local perspectives and priorities, imparting a special character to each of our practices.
  • Sonic Healthcare is structured to encourage this diversity.

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WE ARE ETHICAL PRACTICES

  • We are committed to maintaining our uncompromising ethical standards in the areas of both business management and medical practice.
  • This is communicated to all staff members through our Sonic Healthcare Values and the Sonic Healthcare Code of Ethics.
  • Our Medical Practice Committees express the professional and ethical voice of pathologists and radiologists across Sonic Healthcare.

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WE ARE CONSTANTLY IMPROVING OUR OPERATIONAL EXPERTISE

  • Sonic Healthcare invests in the very latest 'state-of-the-art' medical technology.
  • We continually pioneer applications and work practices which help make us a cutting edge company.
  • We harness the diversity and creativity within Sonic Healthcare, to identify 'best practice' procedures, and adopt them throughout the group.
  • Regular attendance by our staff at international meetings enables us to benchmark and hone our diagnostic and operational procedures.

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WE PROVIDE PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP WITHIN OUR SPECIALTIES

  • Many Sonic Healthcare radiologists and pathologists are world leaders within their sub-specialties.
  • Our medical staff contribute actively to professional and academic affairs.
  • Sonic Healthcare aims to maintain its position as 'employer of choice' for the leading medical talent in the fields of pathology and radiology.
  • We are developing a unique corporate-wide 'Sonic Healthcare Standard' of diagnostic excellence with input from our professional staff members.

 
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