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To: RNS
Date: 1 February 2022
Company: Target Healthcare REIT plc
LEI: 213800RXPY9WULUSBC04
Subject: Directorate Change
Directorate Change
The Board of Directors of Target Healthcare REIT plc is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Amanda Thompsell as an independent non-executive Director of the Company with effect from 1 February 2022.
Dr Thompsell trained and originally practised as a GP before switching to working in old age hospital medicine, and then retraining in old age psychiatry. She has significant clinical experience of all aspects of caring for older people and has held a number of clinical and national leadership roles allowing her to develop a comprehensive knowledge of the care home sector. This included 17 years at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, where she led a multidisciplinary team supporting care homes for seven years and was the clinical lead for long-stay older people's mental health unit for a further five years.
Dr Thompsell is the National Specialist Advisor: Older People's Mental Health at NHS England, a member of the advisory board to the Journal of Dementia Care and a Medical Member of the First Tier Tribunal at the UK Ministry of Justice. She is also the previous chair of the Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
There is no information required to be disclosed pursuant to paragraph 9.6.13 R of the Listing Rules in relation to this appointment.
All Enquiries:
Kenneth MacKenzie, Gordon Bland
Target Fund Managers Limited
01786 845 912