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SCC continues our expansion across Australia
SPECIALIST DIAGNOSTIC SERVICES PTY LTD (SDS PATHOLOGY)
One of Australia’s leading providers of private medical laboratory and pathology services,
SDS (the pathology division of Healius) has world-class laboratory facilities
and a nationwide presence. SDS operates a diverse and geographically dispersed business
ranging from exclusively servicing some of Australia’s largest and most complex private
and public hospitals to small and remote Australian Aboriginal communities. They have a number
of highly specialized practices dedicated to niche human and veterinary pathology.
The #1 provider of pathology services to public hospitals nationally and the #1 provider of pathology
services to the Australian government, SDS has 7,970 employees across Australia and commands
a 36.7% share of the Australian pathology market. They have 2,267 collection centers and 109 labs.
Every day, they test 77,000 patients (408,000 tests daily) and have more than 2,000 unique tests
in their catalogue; one in three tests in Australia is conducted in their labs. They support more than
30,000 referring doctors nationwide, and their couriers travel 40 million kilometers annually
to deliver specimens and results.