Nuffield Health appoints KP Doyle as Chief Executive of Nuffield Proactive Health and Cannons
Nuffield Health, the UK’s largest healthcare charity, has appointed KP Doyle as Chief Executive of the combined operations of Nuffield Proactive Health and Cannons Health & Fitness.
Cannons is one of the best-known health club groups on the high street, with over 52 commercial clubs and 14 local authority sites under contract. Nuffield Proactive Health is the UK's leading expert in employee health, vitality and wellness, providing services to over 3,000 corporate clients and 200,000 employees annually.
The two businesses are already under shared management and will be united under the Nuffield Health brand later this year.
KP Doyle was a founder director of Sona Group, which was bought by Nuffield Health in 2005. He was formerly Chief Financial Officer of Nuffield Proactive Health and played a major role in the acquisition of Cannons at the end of 2007.
KP takes over the role of Chief Executive from Chris Jessop.
KP has been instrumental in laying the foundations of the future combined business. He integrated health screening, primary care and physiotherapy services into Nuffield Proactive Health and put in place consistent clinical governance, quality assurance and operational processes.
Nuffield Health was unveiled as the new name for Nuffield Hospitals earlier in the summer, following the acquisition of Cannons.
The new name reflects the group’s ambition to unite services to improve and maintain health, to help people to understand their personal health risks and to provide excellent diagnosis and treatment when it’s needed.
“Until now there has been very little connection between health and fitness services on the one hand, and diagnosis and treatment of problems on the other,” said KP Doyle. “Nobody has been able to give the public a joined-up approach to proactively managing their health. We’re aiming to change that.
“As a not for profit organisation we have a unique opportunity to take a new and exciting approach to healthcare, creating services which are rooted in what consumers tell us they need and how they want to take control over their health. We can deliver that on the high street or the workplace, so it’s easier for people to get involved.”
Nuffield Health’s combined fitness and wellbeing businesses include:
• 52 health clubs, currently trading as Cannons
• 11 leisure centres and other facilities run for local authorities, mainly under the Courtney’s brand
• More than 100 client-site health and fitness facilities providing services for employees of large and medium-sized businesses
• 4 medical centres, providing health & wellbeing assessments
• More than 400 accredited physiotherapy clinics in the national Fusion network
For more information please contact Steve Marinker, Citigate Dewe Rogerson
0207 282 2841 / 07779 031 936
1. Nuffield Health is a charity that provides services for better health
• We help people to get healthy and stay healthy, to identify and manage their individual health risks, and we provide sophisticated diagnosis and treatment for any problems that occur.
• People can access our services through a national network of facilities from hospitals to health clubs. We also support the NHS and other healthcare providers with a unique fleet of mobile theatres and diagnostic units.
• Nuffield Health is a charity, combining our social values with the best disciplines of business to maximise our benefit to the public. As a charity, our success is defined by our ability to improve people’s health. As a business, our success is driven by our customers’ satisfaction.
• We are independent of government and have no shareholders, so we can think for the long term and reinvest all financial surplus we make for our customers’ benefit.
• Established in 1957, we have served millions of people for over 50 years. But we know that every customer is unique, and we treat them that way.
• Nuffield Health is the UK’s largest healthcare charity, with a turnover of £506million in 2007.
• In 2007 we helped to improve the health of over 750,000 people.
• We employ 11,000 staff, including over 4,000 clinical staff. We support the practice of over 6,000 consultants covering a full range of specialities and treatments.
• We deliver services from over 200 facilities including Nuffield Health Hospitals, Cannons Health Clubs, Courtney’s Sports & Leisure Centres, specialist health assessment centres and fitness and wellbeing facilities embedded in over 100 client company sites.
