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Caresolve Care sector consultancy Caresolve has appointed Maxine Parry as a new regional director, responsible for overseeing the day-to-day management of the company.
Parry was previously a senior consultant at the Warrington-based company, which she joined in in 2016.
Caresolve was established in 2011 and provides strategic and operational support to care home operators and their investors. The company also works closely with local authorities, the Care Quality Commission, insolvency practitioners, banks, sales agents and solicitors. It also undertakes management contracts for investors and providers, as well as having experience in achieving the turnaround of many care homes.
Castleoak Later living and care development company Castleoak has made two board-level appointments.
Kate Still has been appointed as chief operations officer, focusing on the business’s performance and organisational development, responsible for all non-financial aspects, including people; customer satisfaction; communications; supply chain management; and health, safety and environmental management.
Still was previously chief operations officer at Citizen Housing with responsibility for 850 staff, 30,000 properties and revenue of more than £150 million. She has worked with some of the UK’s largest social housing companies and was previously national housing director at Sanctuary Group.
With a background spanning finance, housing maintenance, social enterprise, local government and management consultancy, Still has over 20 years’ experience as a business strategist and operations leader with a focus on innovation, continuous improvement and transformational change.
Lisa Gledhill also joined Castleoak as managing director, developments with responsibility for the company’s development business and joint ventures.
Gledhill has more than 25 years’ experience as a development and construction leader and a background spanning real estate, infrastructure and property development, investment, construction and consultancy. She started her career with Arup, spending her first 10 years in technical, digital and project management roles. After gaining financial qualifications, she moved to Laing O’Rourke and then to Lendlease, working in investment, construction and development roles, latterly leading major mixed-use redevelopment schemes in London and Singapore.
She is the non-executive director and chair at EdCity Development, a not-for-profit development which aims to create an education and charity hub in White City, London. Gledhill is also a chartered engineer.
EY EY has appointed Sylvester Oppong as head of healthcare services M&A in its life sciences and healthcare corporate finance team in the UK.
He will be responsible for originating and executing transactions across the UK healthcare sector at EY, and leveraging the firm’s global reach to introduce international opportunities to clients.
Oppong will work within EY’s corporate finance team led by Fraser Greenshields and alongside David Scourfield in the life sciences and healthcare corporate finance team. Scourfield and Oppong’s team advises entrepreneurs, management teams, corporates (including founder-managed businesses) and private equity firms within the life sciences and healthcare sectors.
Oppong was previously head of healthcare M&A and a corporate finance partner at Smith Square Partners. He has more than 16 years’ corporate finance experience with a focus on the healthcare services sector during the past 10 years.
GK Strategy Strategic research and communications agency and due diligence provider GK Strategy has appointed former Conservative MP and health minister Alistair Burt and ex-Financial Conduct Authority chair John Griffith-Jones as strategic advisors.
The pair have been appointed to bolster GK’s political, policy and regulatory offer to the private equity sector. They join the former Liberal Democrat education and treasury minister David Laws and Labour’s former care minister Phil Hope on the agency’s advisory team.
Burt served as minister of state for care at the Department of Health, overseeing primary and community care and mental health. He has held several ministerial roles over a 33year career as an MP, including at the Foreign Office, the Department for International Development and the Department for Social Security. He left the government and stepped down from Parliament last year.
Griffith-Jones was the inaugural chair of the FCA from 2013 to 2018. He was previously UK chairman and senior partner at KPMG.
GK advises investors and management teams on both sell-side and buy-side in a transaction process, and has provided political due diligence and environmental, social and corporate governance advice on more than 325 deals worth over $15 billion across a range of sectors. GK also works with investorbacked businesses and public providers on their communications strategies and engagement with policy-makers, providing support in the political and regulatory environment to mitigate risk and create value. ▶
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Sylvester Oppong, EY
Alistair Burt, GK Strategy
John Griffith-Jones, GK Strategy
▶ HealthHero
Holistic digital healthcare provider HealthHero has appointed Aseem Sadana as chief operating officer
Sadana has a range of leadership experience in the technology sector including strategy consulting, entrepreneurship, and scaling up an enterprise cloud software business. He was previously group chief operating officer at
IMImobile, a publicly listed enterprise cloud software business.
HealthHero has also appointed Dr Jonathan
Hill as adviser on medical affairs. Hill is a physician and cardiologist who has pioneered many new treatments during his 25 years working in the NHS and for the private sector.
The company appointed Professor Sam
Shah as adviser, NHS. Shah is the founder and director of the Faculty of Future Health at Ulster
University, and was previously director of digital development for NHS England and NHSX. He has worked across the UK health system in primary care, public health, acute services, education and training, and digital transformation. He is a digital health advisor to a number of health and technology companies spanning a range of industries including telecommunications, assessment of apps, scaling new technology into the NHS and workforce solutions. He has worked on a number of initiatives including the flagship project to digitalise urgent care in the NHS.
Heathcotes Group Chesterfield-based care provider, Heathcotes Group, has appointed Tim Elliott as regional manager for its supported living services in Yorkshire and Humberside.
Heathcotes Group provides specialist care for adults with learning disabilities and complex mental health needs.
Elliott joined Heathcotes’ supported living management team in February last year and has been involved in the regional development of the company’s supported living for service users who no longer require full-time residential care.
Elliott is experienced in working with adults with learning disabilities and mental health needs, and managed supported living and community support services in previous positions at The Wilf Ward Family Trust and the Avalon Group. In his new role, he will oversee operations in support of four general managers across five services in Wakefield, Bradford, Grimsby, Rotherham and Leeds. The accommodation enables individuals to make a progressive step down from a hospital or residential setting to a self-contained environment with 24/7 support available.
L.E.K. Consulting Global management consulting firm L.E.K. Consulting has appointed Dr Adrienne Rivlin as a partner in its healthcare practice, based in London.
Rivlin previously led KPMG’s healthcare and life sciences strategy team. She advises private and public sector organisations across the pharmaceutical, biotech, medical devices and consumer healthcare sectors. She supports clients with commercial challenges, including corporate and portfolio strategy development; product launchs; pricing and market access; clinical governance structures and processes; and commercial and regulatory due diligence.
Before her 10-year career in consulting, Rivlin was a researcher, public policy consultant and tutor at the University of Oxford. During this time, she worked with the Home Office, the Ministry of Justice and Department of Health to research and review health policy in prisons. She has also authored numerous articles in academic journals on key issues impacting the global healthcare and life sciences sectors.
Spire Healthcare Private hospital provider Spire Healthcare has appointed Dr Catherine Cale as group medical director, effective 26 October, following the decision to retire by the current interim medical director, Fergus Macpherson.
Cale has served on boards as medical director in three organisations, each in different parts of the health sector, most recently with Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in London. She worked alongside Professor Tim Briggs as clinical ambassador for the Getting It Right First Time initiative in London until February 2019 and maintains strong links with the programme. Cale trained in paediatric immunology and infectious diseases and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathology.
Spire also appointed Gillian Fairfield as group general counsel on 1 September. Fairfield is a senior lawyer with more than 20 years’ experience in corporate law, regulatory, finance, and governance who has worked with listed companies across a number of sectors. She was previously a partner in the corporate division of international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills and was a non-executive director and committee member of Lonmin, a FTSE-listed public company.
Aseem Sadana, HealthHero
Dr Jonathan Hill, HealthHero
Professor Sam Shah, HealthHero
▶In addition, Spire has appointed Professor
Clifford Shearman as an independent nonexecutive director with effect from 1 October. He will also join the clinical governance and safety committee from 1 January 2021.
This appointment will increase the number of
Spire board members with clinical experience to four. Shearman was a consultant vascular surgeon for 26 years and is currently vice-president of the Royal College of Surgeons. He is also nonexecutive director at the Royal Bournemouth and
Christchurch NHS Foundation Trust.
St Andrew’s Healthcare St Andrew’s Healthcare, a UK charity providing specialist mental healthcare for patients with complex, challenging mental health needs, has appointed former health minister Paul Burstow as its new chair after Peter Carter said he would step down from the role due to ongoing shielding requirements.
Burstow was the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Sutton and Cheam from 1997 to 2015 and has insight into mental health and social care, having served as care minister during the Coalition government. He is a professor of mental health public policy at the University of Birmingham, and chair of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation, as well as the chair of the Social Care Institute for Excellence. Your.MD Global self-care platform Your.MD, creator of the Healthily app, has promoted Jonathon Carr-Brown, founder of NHS Choices, to chief operations officer.
Carr-Brown joined Your.MD from NHS Choices in 2015 as head of partnerships, before becoming director of operations in 2019. He founded and launched NHS Choices (now referred to as the NHS website), in 2007, growing the site from three million visits a month to 48 million in four years. Prior to that he was speechwriter to then Labour secretary of state of health Patricia Hewitt, health correspondent for The Sunday Times and political editor of the Independent on Sunday. n
Tim Elliott, Heathcotes Group Dr Adrienne Rivlin, L.E.K. Consulting
Jonathon Carr-Brown, Your.MD
