Editing East Midlands (section)

===Health care===
{{See also|List of pharmaceutical manufacturers in the United Kingdom}}
[[File:Boots the Chemist - D10 building - geograph.org.uk - 678655.jpg|thumb|220px|left| Sir [[Owen Williams (engineer)|Owen Williams]] D10 building at Boots]]
[[Boots UK]] is based in [[Lenton, Nottingham|Lenton]] in Nottingham, with 2,500 UK stores, where [[Stewart Adams (chemist)|Stewart Adams]] developed [[Ibuprofen]] in the 1960s on Rutland Road in West Bridgford, and [[Vision Express]] are nearby, next to the A52. Boots was the biggest chemist chain in the world; now [[A.S. Watson Group]] is the world's biggest health retail company. [[Crookes Healthcare]], formerly Boots and now [[Reckitt Benckiser]], make [[Strepsils]] and Optrex on the enormous Boots site, and [[Boots Contract Manufacturing]] (BCM) make products for other firms; it makes [[Benylin]] for [[McNeil Consumer Healthcare|McNeil]]. On the [[ng2 business park]], [[Specsavers]] have their corporate eyecare and [[contact lens]] division. Three out of the four main UK [[optician]]s are sited in Nottingham. The [[Magnetic resonance imaging|MRI scanner]] was developed at the [[University of Nottingham]] by Sir [[Peter Mansfield]]; MRI scanners were developed mainly by GEC Medical, once invented; MRI harnesses [[nuclear magnetic resonance]] (NMR) of the [[Hydrogen atom|hydrogen nucleus]]; [[Raymond Vahan Damadian]] of USA also claims the MRI invention.{{citation needed|date=February 2024}}

[[Queen's Medical Centre]] (QMC) is one of the largest [[teaching hospital]]s in Europe, and the largest hospital in the UK. The CT scanner ([[X-ray computed tomography]]) was invented by Newark's Sir [[Godfrey Hounsfield]]. Both inventions received [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prizes for Medicine]] (2003 for MRI and 1979 for CT). Glenfield Hospital (which comes under the UHL NHS Trust) is one of England's main hospitals for coronary care and respiratory diseases; it has a strong international reputation for medical research in cardiac and respiratory health and carried out the world's first percutaneous coronary intervention procedure on a two-year-old child in August 2012 with the largest ECMO unit in the UK.{{citation needed|date=February 2024}}

[[East Midlands Ambulance Service|EMAS]] is based in [[Bilborough]] on the A6002 near junction 26 of the M1. There are three (charity-funded) [[Air ambulances in the United Kingdom|air ambulance services]]: the western one is based at [[East Midlands Airport|EMA]], the [[Lincolnshire & Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance|eastern one]] is based at RAF Waddington, and the [[The Air Ambulance Service|southern one]] (shared with [[Warwickshire]]) is at [[Coventry Airport]]. [[NHS East Midlands]] is at [[Sandiacre]] next to junction 25 of the M1. [[3M Health Care]] (former [[Riker Laboratories]]) has a factory in the north of Loughborough on the [[A6 road (England)|A6]], with its head office on the [[A60 road|A60]] next to the [[Loughborough railway station|railway station]].

[[BioCity Nottingham]] is an important centre for [[State of the art|cutting-edge]] bioscience companies. [[Slimming World]], who help people lose weight, is in [[Pinxton]], near [[Alfreton]] off the A38; on the other side of the railway [[NHS Supply Chain]] was formed in 2006 on the Cotes Park Industrial Estate in [[Somercotes]]; nearby [[Diversey, Inc.|Diversey]] UK (former JohnsonDiversey) has a manufacturing plant, and is based at the A43/A4500 junction at [[Weston Favell]]. Dalatek Plastics make pharmaceutical containers off the B6022 on the Maun Valley Ind Park at Sutton in Ashfield next to the [[Robin Hood Line|railway]].{{citation needed|date=February 2024}}

Brunel Healthcare (former Peter Black, [[Perrigo]] then NeutraHealth), owned by [[Elder Pharmaceuticals]], in Swadlincote makes [[Dietary supplement|food supplement]]s. Off the A60 at [[Carlton in Lindrick]] north of Worksop, Robinson Healthcare makes first aid equipment. [[Patterson Companies|Patterson Medical]] UK (including [[sorbothane]] insoles) are in Huthwaite, Notts, and [[Fresenius Medical Care]] UK (provides most of the NHS's kidney [[Kidney dialysis|dialysis]]) are there too.{{citation needed|date=September 2018}}