Westfield Health acquires UK Healthcare

Adam Saville
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Health and wellbeing specialist teams up with health cash plan provider.

Westfield Health has continued its expansion following its relocation to new headquarters in Sheffield by forming a strategic partnership with Bolton & District Hospital Saturday Council (BDHSC), a Bolton-based health cash plan provider. BDHSC, which was set up in 1877 and trades as UK Healthcare, is a not-for-profit health provider with a nationwide corporate and consumer customer base, with an annual turnover of £4m. UK Healthcare CEO, Stephen Pugh, said: "We've had a very successful few years of significant growth, so much so that we have been accelerating towards being subject to ...

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