About us
More streamlined care, better outcomes
We believe healthcare should be simpler, faster, and built around patients. That’s why we create joined-up pathways that improve access, reduce delays, and deliver the right care in the right place.
Our Unique Model
With our innovative healthcare model, we’re seamlessly connecting self-paying and NHS patients to the care they need. Our innovative one-stop model brings together diagnostics, consultations, and treatment in a single pathway, reducing delays and improving outcomes. Delivered in community settings, our approach is faster, more accessible, and designed around patients. We work in partnership to provide the right care, in the right place, first time.
Our Values
Our values aiming HIGH, are as relevant today as they’ve always been. They bring us to life, as individuals and as an organisation.
Our Services
NHS Services
We deliver NHS-commissioned services that work around people’s lives. From diagnostics to treatment, our community-based services are accessible, efficient and focused on outcomes.
Self-pay Services
We offer safe, expert minor surgery for self-paying patients – with one-stop clinics, clear pricing, and a supportive experience that makes treatment simple, convenient, and reassuring from start to finish.
Our aims
We aim to improve access to high-quality care
At Cohese Healthcare, we aim to improve access to high-quality care by delivering services closer to home, faster and more efficiently. We work in partnership with the NHS, commissioners, and communities to create joined-up pathways that put patients first. Our goal is to provide more choice, better outcomes, and real value for both individuals and the healthcare system.
Benefits
Here at Cohese Healthcare, we understand that there isn’t one way to fix healthcare and better meet the complex, evolving needs of patients and communities. With our lauded innovative one stop model, we’re simplifying, speeding-up, and personalising access to specialist treatment closer to people’s homes.
- One stop shop
- Top consultants
- We come to you
Our People
Our clinical teams include expert consultants, healthcare assistants, sonographers, and nurses, all bringing a high level of skill and specialist knowledge. We’re extremely proud of the care they deliver and the impact they have in local communities.
Board of Directors
Non Executive Director
Mike Bishop
Non Executive Chair
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Executive Director
John Campbell
Chief Executive Officer
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Non Executive Director
Sam Creavin
Non Executive Director
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Executive Director
Joy Milliken
Director of Service Delivery
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Non Executive Director
Lawrie Kidd
Non Executive Director
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Trish Jay
Senior Independent Director
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Executive Director
James Fuerstenberg
Director of Finance and Resources
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Mike Bishop
Non Executive Chair
Appointment: January 2018
I have spent over 35 years in the audit profession, working with Boards of companies of all sizes to help them understand the financial aspects of their decision making. More recently, I have been working in an International context, helping to shape and execute strategy for an accounting network within Europe, Middle East and Africa. What I have learned is that most things are possible if issues are well thought through and if you take people with you.
I was the appointed auditor to a number of organisations in the NHS in the mid 1990’s and whilst the organisational structure of the NHS has changed, many of its key issues are very familiar!
John Campbell
Chief Executive Officer
Appointment: June 2021
John has over 30 years experience of working in health and social care, majority of which has been at Executive Director and Deputy CEO level. Much of his career has been within the NHS in a variety of settings including: acute, community, children’s, mental health, learning disabilities, specialist and forensic services and social care. He has also worked in the third sector and in the housing sector.
John has a track record in leading large scale change and transformation to both develop new, and improve existing services. Known as an enabling and empowering transformational leader, he has an authentic style that brings out the best in colleagues and creates high performing and engaged teams.
He has a Masters degree in Healthcare Policy and Management from the University of Birmingham, and qualifications from the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) and Managing Successful Programmes (MSP).
He is particularly passionate about personalised care approaches and the development of services that proactively engage seldom heard groups and to play his part in reducing health inequalities. He believes that working together in partnership to create joint solutions can make a massive difference to people’s lives.
John likes spending time with his family, supports his home nation of Ireland in Rugby Union and is an avid Kidderminster Harriers football fan.
Sam Creavin
Non Executive Director
Appointment: April 2024
Dr Sam Creavin is a General Practitioner (GP) and NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer based in the UK. was born in East Sussex near the sea and completed undergraduate training in the West Midlands. He practices at a semi-rural surgery in Thornbury, South Gloucestershire, where he has been a GP partner since 2015 and senior partner since 2021. He also continues to work in the out-of-hours GP setting. Dr Creavin also works at the University of Bristol, focusing on research related to dementia diagnosis and primary care diagnostics; his PhD examined diagnostic approaches to dementia in general practice. He also serves as a member of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Diagnostics Advisory Committee.
He lives with his wife, daughter, and twin sons. He is a cycling enthusiast and is outdoors whatever the weather.
Joy Milliken
Director of Service Delivery
Appointment: Sept 2023
Originally from Northern Ireland, Joy trained as a Registered Nurse in Belfast in 1990 and has worked in hospital, community, hospice and private care settings in various parts of the UK and New Zealand.
Joy has a BA Hons in Management and Business Studies and a MSc in Nursing, in additional to training and qualifications from the Institute of Directors.
With a background in oncology and palliative care, her roles have included direct patient care, operational and strategic leadership across NHS, private and charitable organisations, including Clinical Director and Deputy CEO roles.
Joy is driven by the ability to deliver safe and effective patient centred services through innovative approaches and a skilled, compassionate workforce. She strongly supports collaborative working to achieve the best outcomes for patients in all settings.
Joy and her husband live in Somerset and have two grown up sons. She is a lover of music, travel and books, is a keen cook and strives to walk in the beautiful South West countryside as much as possible.
Lawrie Kidd
Non Executive Director
Appointment: April 2024
Lawrie is a Consultant Anaesthetist working in Gloucestershire and living in Bristol. His main clinical interests centre around the perioperative care of complex and frail patients, with a particular interest in Vascular and Regional Anaesthesia. He has an active research portfolio with particular research interests in emergency airway management and perioperative decision making.
Lawrie is the Freedom to Speak Up Guardian at Cohese Healthcare.
With ongoing industry experience working within the Health/Medtech sector, Lawrie combines frontline clinical expertise with a strong background in pathway redesign and deep understanding of healthcare technology. With a strong research and quality improvement background in his medical capacity, he leverages this to ensure pathway transformation is clinically assured, safe and robust – meeting the needs of all stakeholders in the process.
Outside of work, Lawrie lives with his wife and 2 young daughters and seems to spend the majority of his time outside of work taking them to dance lessons and birthday parties.
Trish Jay
Senior Independent Director
Appointment: September 2023
Trish is a recently retired Registered Nurse, who has worked in the NHS and Charity sector for over 40 years, undertaking Executive Nurse and Operations Director roles. Since retirement from fulltime work, she undertakes health and social care consultancy projects as well as maintaining her passion for supporting staff development through coaching and mentoring. She is a Trustee and Vice Chair for Barnwood Trust, a Gloucestershire based charity focussed upon changing conditions for disabled people and people with mental health conditions.
In her career, Trish has focussed upon the development and delivery of local neighbourhood health and social care provision, as she strongly advocates that this approach enables person centred care with improved accessibility of services, appropriate support from family and friends as well as realised benefits from integration with community voluntary services.
James Fuerstenberg
Director of Finance and Resources
Appointment: August 2022
James started in healthcare in 2010 joining the award-winning NHS Graduate Management Training programme specialising in Finance. He has spent much of his career in the NHS and has worked in various acute hospitals as well as regulatory bodies. Most recently he worked in the private sector as a Finance Director for Spire Healthcare covering both Bristol and Cardiff hospitals.