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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, announces that Wendy Lawrence has agreed with the Board that she will step down from her role as Chief Executive Officer and will leave the Board with immediate effect.
The Board intends to initiate a formal search process to identify a new Chief Executive Officer as soon as possible and will update the market in due course. Until such time as a new Chief Executive Officer is appointed, Professor Prasad Godbole, Totally's current Chief Operating Officer has been appointed interim Chief Executive Officer of the Company with immediate effect. Professor Prasad Godbole will report directly to Simon Stilwell, Chairman of the Company, but will not be appointed to the board at the present time.
Simon Stilwell, Chair of Totally, commented:
"I would like to thank Wendy for her contribution to Totally plc over the last 12 years. In that time the business has grown considerably both organically and by acquisition and successfully expanded its offering to be one of the leading independent healthcare providers today."
Wendy Lawrence, commented:
"I'd like to thank those whom have supported me during my tenure as CEO at Totally, we have certainly made some major progress over the years. I wish Totally well and am already looking forward to the next chapter in my career."
Further information
The following information is disclosed pursuant to Rule 17 and Schedule Two paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules for Companies in relation to Prasad Purushottam Godbole, age 59:
Current Directorships
Yorkshire Childrens Services Limited
Pioneer Healthcare International Limited
Former Directorships
Pioneer Healthcare Limited
Healthsense Solutions Limited
Prasad Godbole has confirmed there is no further information to be disclosed pursuant to paragraph (g) of Schedule 2 of the AIM rules.
For further information please contact:
| Totally plc Simon Stilwell, Chair
| 020 3866 3330 |
| Canaccord Genuity Limited (Nominated Adviser & Corporate Broker) Bobbie Hilliam / Harry Rees
| 020 7523 8000 |
Notes to editors
About Totally
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.
Totally helps healthcare commissioners and hospitals ensure patients can access the most appropriate care quickly and efficiently by delivering quality urgent care services, elective care services including insourcing, outsourcing and elective care delivered via 'Any Qualified provider', as well as community dermatology clinics; and therapy servicing including first contact practitioner and a full physiotherapy and podiatry offering. Our corporate customer services also play a role in reducing reliance on healthcare by promoting healthy lifestyles and physical and mental health.
Healthcare services
Urgent Care: Totally's urgent care services are delivered under the Totally Urgent Care brand, by Vocare and Greenbrook Healthcare. Both businesses have a strong heritage.
Elective care: Totally's elective care services are delivered by Pioneer Healthcare, About Health and Premier Physical Healthcare.
· Pioneer Healthcare was established in 2007 and 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 offer services through insourcing and outsourcing agreements and through its Any Qualified Provider status.
· 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 was established in 2007 and provides physiotherapy and podiatry services to NHS patients, often within a community GP practice, and to the prison service.
Corporate Wellbeing Services
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 62 gyms on behalf of its corporate customers, with more than 13,000 members.
For more information visit www.totallyplc.com
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