The internal memo,Foakleys which said the company was not intending to announce the restructure to the press, said the shake-up was aimed at simplifying the 3,000-strong health and well-being business. The memo outlined various leadership functions and new roles that have been created, although the company said some people could be “impacted” by the changes, suggesting some redundancies were on the cards.
Paul Saper, chief executive of LCS International Consulting, a healthcare consultancy,fake oakleys said Mr Fletcher – who joined the business in March 2012 – was “like a breath of fresh air” giving Bupa a much-needed reorganisation to deal with market challenges.
For too long, the company has been “wonderfully inefficient”, he said, because staff – operating under the mutual model without the pressure from shareholders – were “risk averse” but paid “fat salaries”.
As a result, the industry has moved on with competition coming from new sources, such as private hospitals, or the NHS,Fake oakleys frogskins which has “upped its game” in cutting waiting lists, reducing people’s desire to take out private medical insurance, he said.