Westminster Healthcare opens door in Chennai for exclusive preview

Westminster Healthcare (a subsidiary of LycaHealth from UK) offered an exclusive preview of its soon to be opened facility in Chennai with the patronage of world renowned actor and icon Rajnikanth and Lyca Group of Companies UK Chairman Subas Allirajah. 

Westminster Healthcare is a new clinically led health care organisation that works on the premise that the way you are treated is as important as the treatment itself.

It ushers patients into a refreshingly luxurious, reassuringly efficient world where high technology and warm service collaborate for their wellbeing. For the first time ever, Westminster Healthcare brings together the science of healthcare and the art of hospitality creating new benchmarks in five-star healthcare in India with a focus on preventive health and rapid access for discerning clients who are time poor. 

Westminster Healthcare works to British standards, protocols and clinical guidelines with integrity, quality and care as our founding elements. All the health records and high end scans will be accessible from any connected device across the world and this will also facilitate formal second opinions from our state of the art UK facilities and world renowned medical experts there. 

Westminster Healthcare is an Indian subsidiary of Lyca Health UK and is investing £15 million in our state-of-the-art day-care. The Westminster team is all geared up to preview our Indian Flagship project in the centre of the city of Chennai with 70,000 sq. ft. of

• Outpatients multispecialty consulting covering Cardiology, Gynaecology, Orthopaedics, Neurosciences, Respiratory medicine, General Surgery, Gastroenterology etc
• Physiotherapy and rehabilitation from Healthcare UK
• Imaging and diagnostics centre
• Dentistry
• Ophthalmology
• Med spa
• Aesthetics/Plastics 
• Personalised and expert health concierge
• 24/7 telemedicine
• Direct access to doctors
• E-health card for global GP access
• Chaperone services for unaccompanied clients
• Access to 2nd opinions from a UK team of doctors. 
• Travel clinic to suggest vaccines 
• Total health reports or 360 degree health assessments

Westminster Healthcare wishes to be a ‘Hub of Knowledge’ for Chennai and beyond for the medical professionals and nurses/technicians in cutting edge medical knowledge and technology. It will also educate the client and users to empower them with the latest so they can access evidence based preventive, primary and secondary level care. It will be launching Philips Westminster’s Training academy as the first centre of intelligence.  

The facility will be opened in June 2017 employing approximately 130 staff members excluding leading Clinicians from Chennai city. The long term vision is to invest about £100 million over the next five years in such centres in cities like Mumbai, Bangaluru, Hyderabad, etc with a tandem goal of also separately establishing a social enterprise where low cost accessible healthcare can be provided in Tier 2 and 3 cities.

The project launch (with the eventual goal of Social Enterprise) brings to culmination a long cherished dream of Prema Subaskaran, Chairperson, who was not able to finish her medical studies due to the situation in Sri Lanka, 

Prema is also the Co-Founder of Gnanam Foundation, an amazing philanthropic organisation, with support from SubaskaranAllirajah the dynamic and visionary Chairman of Lyca group. The Lyca Group has made huge strides in business in the last 12 years and has 21 million customers world-wide in 22 countries with a turnover of Euro 1.6 billion. Its diversified portfolio includes Lyca mobile, Lyca Remit, Lyca Radio, Lyca media, Lyca Productions, Lyca Fly, Lyca money and LycaHealth.