BHSF expands OH services with Birmingham acquisition

BIRMINGHAM-based health and employee benefits provider, BHSF, has strengthened its position in the marketplace with a new acquisition in its home city.

The firm has acquired The Newhall Medical Practice Ltd in an undisclosed deal. It is the seventh purchase made by BHSF since 2012 and part of a strategy to grow its occupational health division to provide nationwide coverage.
 
Newhall provides high-quality occupational health and other medical services and it also has a private GP service and a travel clinic at its premises in Cornwall Buildings, Newhall Street.  
 
Newhall is headed by its founder, Dr Bryan Fehilly, who will be remaining with the business.
 
BHSF Group Chief Executive, Peter Maskell said: “We are very pleased to have acquired such a successful business which will strengthen our OH proposition and give us greater presence in the marketplace.  

“Initially Newhall will be a subsidiary of BHSF Occupational Health, which is headed by MD Dr Philip McCrea.
 
“We are looking to acquire further suitable businesses in order to achieve a truly nationwide OH service.”

No redundancies are expected to arise in either company as a result of this deal, which the company hopes will actually see jobs created.

BHSF can trace its roots back to the formation of the Birmingham Hospital Saturday Fund in 1873.  In addition to OH, the group consists of a health insurer and an insurance brokerage which offers a range of personal insurances, employee benefits and HR support services to the group’s 3,000 client organisations.  More than 400,000 people are covered under BHSF’s health and personal accident insurances.

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