Directorate Changes (2435G)

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RNS Number : 2435G

Healthcare Locums PLC

10 May 2011

Healthcare Locums Plc

Directorate Changes

Appointment of Chief Executive Officer

Further Executive Board Appointments

Healthcare Locums plc ("HCL" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that it has appointed three Executive Directors to the Board, all with immediate effect.

Stephen Burke is appointed as Group Chief Executive Officer. Mr Burke has approximately 30 years experience of working in international recruitment companies, since 2001 at senior Board level. Mr Burke was previously Managing Director of Michael Page UK and a main Board Director of Michael Page International plc ("Michael Page"). He joined Michael Page in the early 1980s shortly after graduation, and spent the following 24 years with the group, during which time he worked across many of its business units as a divisional Managing Director, both in the UK and in Europe. He was responsible for significant growth in each of the business units and was appointed to the Michael Page Board in 2001 as one of four Executive Directors. He played a central role in the group's full listing in 2001 and subsequent position in the FTSE 250. Mr Burke left Michael Page in 2005 to develop his career as a Non-Executive Director on the boards of both listed and private companies. He has most recently been a Non-Executive Board Director for Matchtech Group, the AIM listed technical and professional services recruitment company, a post he has held since 2006.

In addition, Colin Whipp is appointed to the Board as Interim Chief Financial Officer and Chief Restructuring Officer. Mr Whipp, a Chartered Accountant, has played a significant role in advising HCL since March and is taking up his interim role while both he and the Company consider options for a permanent appointment in due course. Mr Whipp has extensive senior experience in multinational companies in the health sector and has worked in a number of turnaround situations in the public and private sectors.

The final Board appointment is that of Andrew McRae, who continues as Managing Director of Healthcare Australia Holdings Pty Ltd ("HCA"). Mr McRae was instrumental in overseeing the successful integration into HCL of HCA, which was acquired in December 2010. Formerly Managing Director of international operations at Hays Plc, and an Executive Director of HCL, Mr. McRae is a Chartered Accountant and has worked in the human capital sector for the last 16 years and in the specialist recruitment sector for the last six years.

The Board of HCL believes that the creation of an entirely new, strong, well regarded and experienced management team is an important milestone in the progress being made in stabilising the business since its statement of 25 January 2011 and the suspension of its shares from trading on AIM. The Board of HCL now comprises three Executive Directors and two Non-Executive Directors.

In addition the Board states that it is in the final stages of appointing an additional independent Non-Executive Director and will update the market in due course.

It is the Board's present intention to announce a comprehensive update to shareholders by the end of June 2011, which will include the 2010 financial results, details on current trading and the outcome of the ongoing investigations into accounting irregularities. The Board's priority is to ensure that the suspension of the Company's shares from trading on AIM is lifted as soon as possible.

Commenting on the appointments, Peter Sullivan, Non-Executive Chairman of HCL, said:

"We are delighted that Stephen has joined the Company, and also that we have further strengthened the Board with the additional expertise and executive appointments of Colin and Andrew. Stephen, Colin and Andrew are experts in their field and have already shown a very clear commitment to the future of the Company. This commitment, together with their combined experience, will be invaluable to the Company as we strive to return to a stable and successful operating Company, and build on our position as a leading international healthcare staffing business."

For further information contact:

Pelham Bell Pottinger 020 7861 3232

David Rydell/Emma Kent/Duncan Mayall

Fairfax I.S. PLC, Nomad and joint broker 020 7598 5368

Simon Bennett/Ewan Leggat/Laura Littley

Further disclosures regarding the newly appointed directors as required by the AIM Rules for Companies:

Stephen Philip Burke (age 51)

The current directorships held by Stephen Burke are as follows:

 
 Matchtech Group PLC 
 SKB Partners LLP

Past directorships held by Stephen Burke in the last five years:

 
 Genitrix Ltd 
 Liberty Fund 1 LP

Andrew James McRae (age 53)

The current directorships held by Andrew McRae are as follows:

 
 EG Solutions Plc 
 HCL International Pty Limited 
 HCL Australia Holdings Pty Limited 
 Healthcare Australia Holdings Pty Limited 
 Acclaim Recruitment Pty Ltd 
 Ackland Trial Pty Ltd 
 ASEPS Pty Ltd 
 Australian Nursing Solutions Pty Ltd 
 Bell Health Pty Ltd 
 Care Services Administration Pty Ltd 
 Di Snare -Fawkner Dom Care Pty Ltd 
 Goongee Pty Ltd 
 Health Employment Pty Ltd 
 Healthcare Australia Pty Ltd 
 Home Support Pty Ltd 
 Malvern Payroll Management Services Pty Ltd 
 NT Medic Pty Ltd 
 Nursing Agency Australia Pty Ltd 
 Private Care Pty Ltd 
 Pacific Nursing Solutions Pty Ltd 
 PNS (QLD) Pty Ltd 
 PNS (VIC) Pty Ltd 
 PNS(Staffing Synergy)Pty Ltd 
 PNS(PCC)Pty Ltd 
 PNS (Home Care) Pty Ltd 
 PNS Finance Pty Limited 
 Select Health Services Pty Ltd T/A WANA 
 Stanhope Healthcare Services Pty Ltd 
 Stanhope Healthcare Services (SA) Pty Ltd 
 The Green Nurses Pty Ltd 
 Wylyn Pty Ltd 
 XTAQ Limited

Past directorships held by Andrew McRae in the last five years:

 
 Auctionair Limited 
 Hays Overseas Holdings Limited 
 Hays International Holdings Limited 
 Hays Healthcare Limited 
 Hays Social Care Limited 
 Hays Specialist Recruitment (Holdings) Limited 
 Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited 
 Hays Personnel (Managed Solutions) Limited 
 Hays Finance Technology Limited 
 Hays Pharma Consulting Limited 
 Hays Pharma Limited 
 James Harvard International Group Limited 
 Hays Personnel Payroll Services Limited 
 Hays SRA Limited 
 Hays ZMB Limited 
 Exco Pharma Limited (Dissolved 2007) 
 Exco Scientific Limited (Dissolved 2008) 
 Healthcare Locums plc 
 Allied Health Professionals Limited 
 BBL (Europe) Limited 
 BBL (Medical) Limited 
 BBL Medical Recruitment Limited 
 BBL Recruitment Limited 
 Blue Group International Holdings Limited 
 Blue Group International Limited 
 BlueCare Recruitment Limited 
 BlueTec Recruitment Limited 
 BML Medical Recruitment Limited 
 Career Plus Options Limited 
 DocShop Limited 
 Elite Recruitment Specialists Limited 
 Eurosite Limited 
 Fairstaff Agency Limited 
 HCL Dubai Limited 
 HCL GPS Limited 
 HCL Healthcare Limited 
 JCJ Group Limited 
 JCJ HMR Limited 
 JCJ Holdings Limited

Colin Peter Whipp (age 58)

The current directorships held by Colin Whipp are as follows:

 
 Amersham Business Management Ltd 
 Clare Perkins Designs Ltd 
 Frank Smythson Ltd 
 Leaseway Vehicle Rental Limited (in administration 
  - see details below) 
 William Clark & Sons Holdings Limited

Past directorships held by Colin Whipp in the last five years:

 
 Amersham Health Management (Dissolved)

Colin Whipp was appointed as a director of Leaseway Vehicle Rental Limited by its lenders, Lloyds Banking Group in August 2010. Colin's appointment was following the discovery of a material falsification of accounts at Leaseway Vehicle Rental Limited which lead to the company being placed into administration.

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