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Interview: Data And Connected Insight In Arthroplasty Will Take Corin Beyond COVID

Private UK orthopedic company has its own take on innovation that creates health care value

 
• By Ashley Yeo

Corin has transformed from a niche UK hip resurfacing company into an innovative global player in orthopedics with a portfolio that includes robotics. UK managing director Paul Gibbons explained the group’s approach to business during COVID-19, and its culture of innovation.

Hip replacement

The two-decade journey of Corin Orthopaedics Holdings Limited through the orthopedics market, changing its portfolio and being taken into private equity, latterly under the ownership of Permira, has been nothing if not compelling. Not that the directors of the UK-based hip and knee arthroplasty specialist would have described it that way when the US metal-on-metal hip resurfacing issue in 2011 ended Stryker’s interest in hips, and thereby also its 10-year distribution agreement with Corin.

Corin had to look inwards, coming off the UK stock market, refinancing and assembling a new portfolio of technologies. It...

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