Noel Tracey to Head Up Gray Healthcare Recovery Team

LIVERPOOL, February 2 - Gray Healthcare has appointed former director of operations of Cambian
healthcare Noel Tracey to lead its expanding Community Recovery Team, as
Clinical Director.

Noel has more than 15 years' experience of senior management in mental
health in both the NHS and the private sector. In his previous role as
director of operations at Cambian Healthcare, covering 12 psychiatric
rehabilitation hospitals, he created and implemented a stress vulnerability
model that was a key factor in optimising the performance of nursing teams
across the group. As strategic forensic services manager for Pennine Care NHS
Trust he led the development of specialist services and the return of service
users to their home area. He led a multi-disciplinary team covering 5 NHS
hospitals and 1 prison, providing NHS inreach with a rehab philosophy across
all levels of security.

Noel Tracey will lead the recovery team at Gray Healthcare, and will work
closely with chief executive Jonathan Gray to implement the company's unique
Structured Recovery Model. "I feel this will be my most challenging role yet
in my 22 years in mental health but my most rewarding, enabling service users
with complex and challenging mental health needs to return back to the
community instead of staying in inpatient services for longer periods of time
than necessary" says Noel.

"By placing service users into their own homes, we are promoting social
inclusion for those who need monitoring and ongoing support as they migrate
from secure hospitals and other inpatient facilities to community
integration. Gray Healthcare has developed a radical new approach to patient
recovery within environments that are closer to an independent way of life.
This offers a better outcome for each service user, with a secure and
sustainable future, and solves a growing problem for the NHS."

"Gray Healthcare links in with Community Mental Health teams, and has
developed its structured recovery model in collaboration with all the
stakeholders to provide a bespoke support and treatment package that is
tailored to meet the needs and safety of the individual, providing up to 24hr
support. This is an innovative solution to recovery policy, allowing patients
to move to a long-term environment of least restriction in their own home,
but surrounded by a highly qualified multi-disciplinary team trained around
risk management and identification of early warning signs."

Demand from PCTs for places on Gray Healthcare's Structured Recovery
Program is already high. Chief Executive Jonathan Gray explained "Noel is
joining us at a very exciting moment. We now have a community recovery model
that offers great benefits for service users in the least restrictive
environment, for the PCTs and for the NHS. Noel's skills and experience will
enable us to develop our model at the right pace and to promote a recovery
strategy.

"Noel Tracy is a highly respected clinician, and I am confident that we
will see a new trend in integrated care developing. Gray Healthcare has
pioneered this approach and we will stay at the forefront of community
psychiatric rehabilitation care in the United Kingdom."

For further information about Gray Healthcare and its services please go
to: www.grayhealthcare.co.uk

Contact: Kate Parkinson / +44(0)151-255-2830 / kate.parkinson at grayhealthcare.com