KLEIJNEN Systematic Reviews Ltd, the expanding York-based international healthcare company, is the latest business to move its headquarters to Harrison’s Escrick Business Park.

The firm provides training and consultancy in systematic reviews, health technology assessment, guidelines, research methods, basic statistics and meta-analysis for national institutes and the pharmaceutical industry across Europe, in order to support evidence-based medicine and evidence-based health care.

Set up four years ago, Kleijnen sought larger premises when it outgrew its offices at Westminster Business Centre at York Business Park.

For the moment, the firm employs ten people and a team of freelancers across Europe from Escrick, but chief executive and founder, Dr Jos Kleijnen, expects the numbers to double in the near future.

The extensive parking and easy road access were major factors in Dr Kleijnen’s decision to move to Escrick. He also believed that buying as opposed to renting would deliver significant cost savings.

He said: “With interest rates at their current levels, it made sense to purchase rather than to lease the offices. Effectively, we will have acquired the building within five years, based on paying equivalent rental values. “As a business committed to maintaining its international headquarters in the York area, it was an easy choice,” said Dr Kleijnen, who was formerly a professor and director of research at the University of York.

Kleijnen joins a growing band of successful businesses to relocate to Escrick. Earlier this year Domus Healthcare set up its UK headquarters there. Former bank manager Ruth Dowswell acquired a unit earlier in the year to set up Young Discoverers Nursery at Escrick – another attraction for firms looking to relocate.

Office and industrial units are available freehold or leasehold at Escrick Business Park – with office units and warehousing/industrial units from 1350 sq ft. Agents are Lawrence Hannah on York 01904 659800 or Peter Lund & Partners 0113 280 5840.