Job losses as urgent NHS call firm collapses
GettyA healthcare firm, which provided urgent care services in NHS 111 call centres, has gone into administration with the loss of 100 jobs.
Totally, which employed 1,400 people across several sites in the UK, including Stockton-on-Tees and Newcastle, said workers had lost their jobs across the group but did not confirm how many had been affected at each site.
The company has been sold to PHL Group, another healthcare provider to the NHS - with the immediate transfer of 600 of its employees.
Tim Vance, joint administrator at EY-Parthenon, said he was pleased that hundreds of jobs and "critical frontline NHS services" had been safeguarded by the sale.
Derby-based Totally had been struggling since losing the NHS 111 support contract in February.
Mr Vance said: "We are pleased to have agreed the sale of Totally plc which safeguards critical frontline NHS services and includes the retention of over 600 jobs."