Vocare awarded significant contract extensions

 

 

 

14 May 2020

 

Totally plc

 

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

 

Vocare awarded multiple significant contract extensions and further Group COVID-19 update

 

Totally plc (AIM: TLY), a leading provider of a range of healthcare services across the UK and Ireland, is pleased to announce a number of extensions to existing contracts across England, worth a total of c. £19.55 million.

 

Whilst the NHS focuses on responding to the COVID-19 crisis these contract extensions, awarded to Vocare Limited ("Vocare"), Totally's wholly owned subsidiary and one of the UK's leading national specialist providers of urgent care services, will ensure the continued provision of services to patients beyond March 2021 and include options for further 12 month extensions.

 

Under the terms of the extensions, Vocare will continue to provide vital GP Out of Hours, NHS 111 and Integrated Urgent Care Services to several NHS Commissioners across the breadth of England, including South West London, Staffordshire and Vale of York.

 

In partnership with the NHS, Vocare and Greenbrook Healthcare: Totally's Urgent Care division, remain committed and focused on enhancing out of hours services and urgent care treatment, helping to relieve the pressures faced by the health services, especially at the current time.

 

COVID-19 update

 

As previously announced Totally continues to focus its efforts on supporting the NHS in the proactive response to COVID-19 through the provision of services from its Urgent Care division. Today, the Group also announces that, in line with recent Government guidance and as the NHS works towards moving into the next phase of its plan of resuming non-essential and elective procedures, it has mobilised its Planned Care and Insourcing divisions to ensure they are ready to recommence operations and support the NHS as soon as these services restart across the UK.

 

Wendy Lawrence, CEO of Totally plc, said: "The COVID-19 pandemic we are currently facing has highlighted the importance of supporting the NHS through the provision of high quality, responsive services for patients. We are delighted to announce this range of contract extensions which will enable us to continue supporting the needs of the numerous communities we currently serve, whilst further strengthening our partnership with the NHS.

 

"At this exceptional time our priority remains the delivery of frontline services across the UK and ensuring we work closely with the NHS as the COVID-19 situation evolves and we move into the next stages. We will continue to support the NHS and our patients through not only our Urgent Care division, as we have been to date, but also now through the re-establishment of operations via our Planned Care and Insourcing divisions across the UK and Ireland."

 

For further information please contact:

 

Totally plc	020 3866 3335
Wendy Lawrence, Chief Executive Bob Holt, Chairman
Allenby Capital Limited (Nominated Adviser & Joint Corporate Broker)	020 3328 5656
Nick Athanas Liz Kirchner
Canaccord Genuity Limited (Joint Corporate Broker)	020 7523 8000
Bobbie Hilliam Alex Aylen
Yellow Jersey PR	020 3004 9512
Georgia Colkin Joe Burgess Henry Wilkinson

 

 

Notes to Editors

Totally plc is a leading healthcare service provider in the UK and Ireland, working in partnership with the NHS and other providers to deliver healthcare services through its divisions of Urgent Care, Planned Care and Insourcing.

 

Totally 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.

 

Urgent Care

Totally offers a full range of urgent care services via its subsidiaries, Vocare and Greenbrook Healthcare, two of the largest urgent care providers in the UK, including:

·    NHS 111 services

·    Clinical Assessment services

·    GP Out-of-Hours services

·    Urgent Treatment Centres

 

www.vocare.org.uk 

www.greenbrook.nhs.uk 

 

Planned Care

Totally delivers planned care services, which include community based Out-Patient Services, Referral Management Services, Physiotherapy and Podiatry Services. It provides these through its planned care subsidiaries, About Health, Premier Physical Healthcare and Optimum Physiotherapy.

 

www.abouthealthgroup.com  

www.premierphysicalhealthcare.co.uk 

www.optimum-hcs.com   

 

Insourcing

Launched in October 2019, Totally Healthcare provides bespoke insourcing solutions across multiple specialities to trusts and hospitals in the UK and Ireland, reducing waiting lists by utilising their spare capacity outside of normal working hours and weekends.

 

www.totallyhealthcarelimited.com

 

More information on Totally plc can be found the following link: www.totallyplc.com.