1 November 2022

Totally plc

("Totally", "the Company" or "the Group")

Directorate Change

Totally plc (AIM: TLY), a leading provider of frontline healthcare services, corporate fitness and wellbeing services across the UK and Ireland, today announces proposed changes to its Board membership. 

Gloria Cooke, Clinical Quality Director, will be retiring and therefore also stepping down from the Board of Totally on 31 December 2022.

Gloria joined the Board of Totally in December 2017 as Clinical Quality Director after a forty-year career in the NHS, initially in both adult and children's nursing, practising for ten years in A&E but ultimately as head of nursing for a large integrated service. During her time with Totally, Gloria has established clinical processes that ensure the continuous improvement of patient care and the services Totally provides.

Wendy Lawrence, CEO of Totally plc, said: "On behalf of the Board, I wish to thank Gloria for her focus and commitment to patient quality care, which has helped us transform how the Group manages clinical quality. Under Gloria's leadership, all of Totally's CQC registered services are rated as good, and she has continually ensured the safety and continued delivery of essential services during one of the most challenging periods in healthcare, the COVID-19 pandemic. We wish her all the best for a happy retirement."

Totally is in the process of appointing a new role of Medical Director to its Board. This position will be an executive-level role appointed from within the organisation. A further update will be provided once the required customary due diligence processes are complete and the appointment is finalised.

Wendy Lawrence continued: "A focus on delivering safe services for patients is at the core of what Totally does each and every day.   The addition of a Medical Director role at Board level ensures the continued delivery of excellent care to the people who access our services and reflects the needs of the larger Group delivering a broader range of services."

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Notes to editors

Totally is a leading provider of healthcare and wellbeing services across the UK and Ireland, working in partnership with the NHS, other healthcare providers and corporate customers to help address the challenges of increased demand for healthcare services.  

The Company is committed to pursuing a progressive buy-and-build consolidation strategy within the fragmented healthcare market and looks to capitalise on the attractive opportunities that its disruptive service model offers to generate value to shareholders.

Totally helps healthcare commissioners and hospitals ensure patients can access the most appropriate care quickly and efficiently by delivering quality urgent care services, such as NHS 111 and urgent treatment centres and elective care services, such as community dermatology clinics and first contact practitioner. Totally also delivers additional clinical capacity through insourcing and outsourcing arrangements to trusts and hospitals tackling growing waiting lists. Our corporate customer services also play a role in reducing reliance on healthcare by promoting healthy lifestyles and physical and mental health.

Totally Urgent Care

Totally Urgent Care is made up of Vocare and Greenbrook Healthcare. Both businesses have a strong heritage. Vocare was established in 1996 as Northern Doctors Urgent Care to provide urgent care services in the North of England and continues to deliver urgent treatment centres and GP Out of Hours services across the North of England as well as national support for NHS 111. Greenbrook was established in 2006 and cares for NHS patients across London and the home-counties through the delivery of urgent treatment centres.

Totally Planned Care

Totally Planned Care is made up of About Health and Premier Physical Healthcare. The businesses are focused on giving patients access to the right care quickly, reducing pressure on other NHS services and, ultimately, reducing waiting lists. About Health has been delivering community-based specialist care with a focus on delivering prompt assessment and treatment across the country since 2008. Premier Physical Healthcare, established in 2007, provides high quality physiotherapy and podiatry to NHS patients, often within a community GP practice, and to the prison service.

Pioneer Health Care

Pioneer Health Care was established in 2007 and has grown under the direction of three senior NHS consultants. Pioneer delivers a wide range of adult services to NHS patients, in partnership with independent healthcare sector private hospitals across England, to help the NHS reduce waiting lists whilst maintaining patient care and quality. Pioneer can offer services through insourcing and outsourcing agreements and through its Any Qualified Provider status. Totally Healthcare, Totally's insourcing business, which was launched in 2019 and previously made up Totally's insourcing division, was incorporated into Pioneer in 2022 following its acquisition.

Energy Fitness Professionals ("EFP")

EFP is a corporate fitness provider established in 1990 to address a gap in the market for workplace fitness, which has grown to offer a range of services covering workplace wellbeing. EFP manages 58 gyms on behalf of its corporate customers, with more than 11,500 members.

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