Ed bateman


Primary Health’s Dr Ed ruffles feathers

Primary Health Care’s tough approach to health care services has the firm’s staff and customers spitting chips, writes Andrew Crook

Bateman plays his $500m card and scuttles Symbion merger

There was much drama at the extraordinary meeting of Symbion Health shareholders this morning when the mercurial Ed Bateman from Primary Healthcare sent his proxy along to tell the meeting he was going to use his 20% stake to scupper the merger with Heathscope. And that’s what he did, reports Stephen Mayne.