Just floated this morning on plus markets and looks very reasonably priced. 1.5 million raised at 35p per share. Market cap just over 6 million. Companys profitable and trades on a forward P/E to May 2008 of circa 10.7. Management team look sound and growth should be on the agenda. One to tuck away I feel. Well worth further consideration.

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GENERAL MEDICAL CLINICS PLC

General Medical Clinics Plc ("GenMed") provides primary medical care in the
City specialising in general practice, health screening services, occupational
health programmes, physiotherapy, and nurse-led functions such as travel
vaccinations.

Operating three private clinics, in 2005 it won a five year contract from the
Department of Health ("DH") to operate the first privately run NHS Walk-in
Centre in London paying a stable monthly income stream plus payments per
patient seen.

GenMed's core product provides private GP services including the Company Doctor
Scheme with corporate organisations paying a fixed fee per employee covering
unlimited consultations with a doctor or nurse.

The Scheme's stable source of annual income is enhanced by self-pay membership
programmes and self-pay walk-in services.

GenMed intends to bid for new contracts for services to the DH within the M25
region.

Company website........
http://www.genmed.org.uk

Link to plus market...

http://www.plusmarketsgroup.com/details.shtml?ISIN=GB00B1LD2D14

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General Medical Clinics plc - Directorate shareholding distribution


GENERAL MEDICAL CLINICS PLC

DIRECTORATE SHAREHOLDING

CHIEF EXECUTIVE DISTRIBUTES SHAREHOLDING TO STAFF


General Medical Clinics PLC (PLUS: GMCP) ("GenMed") an established provider of
primary care in the City of London which was admitted to trading on PLUS on 29
December 2006, announces that Jerry Appleyard, Chief Executive has transferred
7000 ordinary shares, being his entire holding for nil consideration. The
shares have been gifted to staff across GenMed on an equal basis to provide
them with a personal interest in the business.

Following the above transactions the interests of the directors now total
3,531,903 shares representing 21.27% of the issued share capital of the
Company.


JERRY APPLEYARD, CHIEF EXECUTIVE, COMMENTED:

"I believe that all staff should hold shares in the company and not just the
directors. By allowing staff to hold shares there is a personal incentive to
focus on the future of the company."

16 March 2007

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Hey, good news...looks like Patricia Hewitt can't cope with the current NHS. What a wonderful idea. I will be able to buy my milk,, vegetables and have a quick prostatectomy at Tescos, and gain extra points. It;s so good to know Patricia that the NHS is safe in your hands.



From The Sunday Times - March 18, 2007

Retail giants set to run GP clinics by David Cracknell and Sarah-Kate Templeton

TONY BLAIR is to invite retail chains including Tesco, Virgin and Boots to bid to run GP surgeries on behalf of the NHS with contracts worth 225m over five years. GPs will be encouraged to run clinics at breakfast time and in the early evening in poor areas where conventional family doctors have been reluctant to practise.

Blairs announcement, to be made tomorrow, is intended to ensure Gordon Brown carries on his reforms of the NHS after Blair leaves Downing Street.

The prime minister will respond to Tory claims that he has left the NHS in crisis by publishing his ideas for progressive reform of public services. He will allow GPs to link up with pharmacies and supermarket drug counters by sharing electronic patient records.

In an indication that he is signed up to the scheme, the chancellor will announce measures to expand the use of community pharmacies for routine treatments and tests.

Tomorrow Blair will publish the first of six policy review papers, on public services, in an effort to shift the emphasis away from producers to consumers.

Patricia Hewitt, the health secretary, will name the first towns to take part in the new programme. Extra family practices, walk-in centres and minor injuries units will be opened in Har-tlepool, Durham, Mansfield and Great Yarmouth. Other areas will join the programme in the coming months.

Contracts for the new services will run for an initial five years, with the possibility of extension.

Although there is no national shortage of GPs, there are many underdoctored areas in England and Wales. The four areas involved in the first wave have significantly fewer GPs per person than the national average of 57.9 GPs per 100,000 people.

The programme aims to attract a broad range of providers, from existing entrepreneurial GPs to social enterprises and FTSE-100 companies. Some extra GPs and nurses will be recruited for up to 30 health blackspots to tackle local shortages of doctors.

David Cameron will also focus on the NHS in a speech to the Conservative partys spring forum in Nottingham today. He is expected to say: It used to be said that Labour were the party of the NHS. Not any more. Labour are the party that is undermining the health service.

Theres a simple reason why. Its not because they dont care. But it is because of their values and philosophy: Labours mania for controlling and directing things from the centre; Labours pessimism about human nature; Labours belief that if people arent told what to do, theyll do the wrong thing. Labour just dont trust people. nThousands of doctors staged marches in London and Glas-gow yesterday to protest at reforms to the system of medical training.

They accuse the government of trying to disempower and degrade the profession.

Could certainly be an opportunity here for GMCP.