Medica : Barbara Moorhouse appointed as Non-Executive Director

Barbara Moorhouse will serve as Senior Independent Director and Chair of the Audit Committee

Barbara Moorhouse will join the Board of Medica Group PLC as a Non-Executive Director on 1 July 2021. Barbara will serve as the Senior Independent Director and Chair of the Audit Committee. Steve Whittern, Senior Independent Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Audit Committee, will stand down from the Board ahead of the Annual General Meeting on 16 June 2021.

Barbara has extensive business and management experience in the private, public and regulated sectors. In the private sector Barbara has held a series of strategic, commercial and finance roles, including being Chief Finance Officer for two international listed IT companies - Kewill Systems plc and Scala Business Solutions NV, Group Finance Director at Morgan Sindall plc, and Regulatory Director at South West Water. In the public sector, she has been Director General at the Ministry of Justice and the Department for Transport and Chief Operating Officer at Westminster City Council. Barbara has been a Trustee and Chair of the Audit Committee for Guy's and St Thomas' Charity and a Non-Executive Director of the NHS West Hampshire Clinical Commissioning Group. She is Non-Executive Director at Balfour Beatty plc, Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Audit Committee at Aptitude Software Group plc and Chair of the Rail Safety and Standards Board. Barbara is currently Non-Executive Director at Agility Trains (East) Ltd, but is stepping down in June 2021 month having been on the board since 2015.