Board Change

RNS Number : 3473R

Spire Healthcare Group PLC

28 February 2019

 

Spire Healthcare Group plc

("Spire Healthcare")

Board Change

28 February 2019

Spire Healthcare Group plc (LSE: SPI), a leading UK independent hospital group, today announces that Peter Bamford gave notice on 27 February 2019 that he intended to step down as Spire's Deputy Chairman and Senior Independent Director of the Company at the Company's forthcoming AGM in May. His successor will be announced in due course.

Garry Watts, Spire's Chairman, said: "The Board is very grateful to Peter for his contributions to Spire Healthcare since joining the Company in 2017, I personally would like to record my thanks to him for the support he provided to me during my period of ill health in 2017 and we wish him well for the future."

The Company has today made its preliminary announcement of the 2018 full year financial results which also contains guidance for the 2019 full financial year.

For further information please contact:

Spire Healthcare

Cora McCallum, Investor Relations Director

[phone]

Instinctif Partners

Damian Reece

Guy Scarborough

[phone]

Registered Office and Head Office

Spire Healthcare Group plc

3 Dorset Rise

London

EC4Y 8EN

Registered number 09084066

About Spire Healthcare

Spire Healthcare is a leading independent hospital group in the United Kingdom, with 39 private hospitals, 8 clinics and one Specialist Cancer Care Centre across England, Wales and Scotland.

Spire Healthcare delivered tailored, personalised care to approximately 260,083 in-patients and daycase patients in 2018, and is the leading private provider, by volume, of knee and hip operations in the United Kingdom. The Group's well located and scalable hospitals have earned reputations as centres of excellence, delivering successful and award winning clinical outcomes, positioning the Group well with patients, consultants, the NHS, GPs and Private Medical Insurance ("PMI") providers. Spire treats patients through a variety of routes including PMI, Self-pay and the NHS, providing the Group with diversified access to the expected growth opportunities in the UK healthcare market, which faces significant supply challenges as a result of NHS budget constraints and increasing demand from a growing population with longer life expectancy.

To learn more, visit www.spirehealthcare.com.

 

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