Gamble of the week: Healthcare minnow punching above its weight

This small biotech company should benefit from NHS outsourcing - and could prove a tempting takeover target for a larger suitor, says Paul Hill.

One of the biggest challenges facing governments around the world is providing top-notch medicine for their expanding and ageing populations without blowing a big hole in their debt-reduction targets. America for one spends a whopping 17% of GDP on healthcare, compared to Britain's more modest 9%.

One solution is to copy what the manufacturing sector has been doing for decades: implementing new technologies, automating processes and driving down costs by outsourcing to specialists.

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Paul gained a degree in electrical engineering and went on to qualify as a chartered management accountant. He has extensive corporate finance and investment experience and is a member of the Securities Institute.

Over the past 16 years Paul has held top-level financial management and M&A roles for blue-chip companies such as O2, GKN and Unilever. He is now director of his own capital investment and consultancy firm, PMH Capital Limited.

Paul is an expert at analysing companies in new, fast-growing markets, and is an extremely shrewd stock-picker.