BUSINESS HEALTHCARE LIMITED

Business Healthcare Limited is a provider of occupational healthcare services to the UK industrial sector. BHC was established in 1996 as a specialist occupational health provider. It has a core staff of approximately 60 based mainly in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire and also at regional clinics in Bristol, Birmingham and Normanton in West Yorkshire. It offers a broad range of services to the public and private sectors including pre-employment assessments, in-service medicals, targeted health surve... illance programmes and sickness absence management. Services are tailored to each client’s specific needs and are delivered by a dedicated team of occupational health nurses and occupational physicians on the client’s premises and by using the company's mobile medical units. BHC has large, blue chip clients in the construction, mining, quarrying, manufacturing, engineering, chemical and food sectors, including Caterpillar, Coca Cola, Corus, Honeywell, Siemens, UK Coal and the DTI. The acquisition of BHC takes RPS into a new area of operation and further extends the range of products and services we can offer our clients. Following acquisition BHC will be integrated with our existing health & safety activities enabling it to benefit from both RPS’s client base and management systems. The two executive directors of BHC will be remaining with RPS.More