REACH: non-regulatory announcement

26 April 2023

Totally plc

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

Totally wins further new contract for urology services in Ireland

Totally plc (AIM: TLY), a leading provider of frontline healthcare services, corporate fitness and wellbeing services across the UK and Ireland, announces it has won a further new insourcing contract for the delivery of urology services for the Saolta University Health Care Group (the "Saolta Group") in Ireland.

The additional contract, valued at c.£1.5m, will support an endoscopy waiting list initiative targeting the reduction of waiting lists through the delivery of diagnostic colonoscopy, gastroscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy procedures between May 2023 and December 2023. All procedures will be delivered during weekends when hospital facilities are not otherwise in use, maximising the potential number of patients that can be seen within the existing hospital infrastructure. 

More than 690,223 people were on waiting lists in Ireland at the end of December 2022¹, with almost 70% waiting longer than the Sláintecare maximum wait times². 

This further new contract follows the announcement of a contract to deliver endoscopies (flexible cystoscopies) for the Saolta Group, valued at c.£650k, earlier this month. The Saolta Group provides acute and specialist hospital services to the West and North West of Ireland in six hospitals across seven sites in Galway, Mayo, Roscommon, Sligo, Leitrim, Donegal and adjoining counties.

Wendy Lawrence, Chief Executive Officer of Totally, said:

"No patient should have to wait excessively for diagnosis and treatment of conditions which, under normal circumstances, would be routine. Totally provides additional healthcare capacity to ensure that operating theatres and existing hospital infrastructure can be maximised to support as many patients as possible.

"This further contract with the Saolta Group shows the significant opportunity for quality insourcing providers to help tackle this significant healthcare challenge."

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Notes to editors

¹ Waiting list numbers for Ireland were published on the Irish Government website in March 2023

² As published in the Committee on the Future of Healthcare Sláintecare Report, May 2017, available from the Irish Government website

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 Healthcare

Pioneer Healthcare was established in 2007 and has grown under the direction of three senior NHS consultants. Pioneer delivers a wide range of acute 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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