The Board of CareTech Holdings PLC announced the appointment of a new Non-Executive Director. Professor Moira Livingston has been involved in health and social care for 32 years. Moira spent many years working initially as a Doctor in the field of older-age psychiatry and latterly as a senior clinical leader and manager in the NHS. She has held a number of Director level leadership roles in the healthcare sector. Moira has led national programmes for the Department of Health and was a specialist advisor with the Care Quality Commission. Currently, Moira is the Managing Director of the healthcare consultancy, Dr. Livingston Limited. She is also a Non-Executive Director at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, where she is a member of the Quality Assurance Committee, as well as a Trustee of the charity Dementia Matters where she has been Chair for the last two years and is due to step down on 30 April 2019. Moira's appointment is effective immediately and she will Chair the Group's Care Governance and Safeguarding Committee. The Board also announces that, alongside Moira's appointment and, as indicated at the time of the Cambian acquisition, Mike Adams OBE has become an Executive Director with immediate effect. This will enable him to pursue a strategic role within the Group and to push forward the Purple business model. Purple, where Mike acts as CEO, is a business 60% owned by CareTech. Purple's vision is to transform thinking and ‘change the conversation’ by bringing together disabled people and business, creating sustainable solutions for the benefit of society and to add value to CareTech' growing service user base.