Directors

Harry Hyman ⁴

Managing Director

Appointed February 1996. Mr Hyman is Managing Director of Nexus Group Holdings Limited, the holding company for a group of companies engaged in the provision of independent advice and financial services to organisations operating in the public and private sectors with particular emphasis on health and property, and of which Nexus PHP Management Limited is a subsidiary. He is also a non-executive director of a number of other companies including General Medical Clinics PLC.

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Alun Jones ^{1 2 3}

Non-Executive Director and Senior Independent Director

Appointed 1 May, 2007. Chairman of the Audit , Management Engagement and Nomination Committees. A Chartered Accountant, he retired from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in 2006, where he had been a partner since 1981. His experience included acting as a senior audit partner, responsible for a number of public companies, with relevant experience in the property and medical sectors. He was also an elected member of the UK and global Supervisory Boards of Price Waterhouse and subsequently Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP UK Firm. He has been a member of the Financial Reporting Review Panel since 1 January 2006.

Martin Gilbert

Non-Executive Director

Appointed May 1996. Mr Gilbert is chief executive of Aberdeen Asset Management PLC. Operating subsidiaries of Aberdeen Asset Management PLC are interested in 7.75% of the total voting rights of Primary Health Properties PLC. He is also chairman of FirstGroup PLC, Chaucer PLC and a director of a number of investment trusts.

William Hemmings

(alternate to Martin Gilbert)

Appointed by Martin Gilbert as his alternate director in March 2000. Mr Hemmings is Head of Investment Companies at Aberdeen Asset Managers Limited. He has responsibility for closed end investment trusts and companies.

Dr. Ian Rutter O.B.E. ^{1 2 3}

Non-Executive Director

Appointed to the Board and the Audit Committee on 22 September 2005. He has been a General Practitioner for 24 years with the Westcliffe Practice in Shipley, Yorkshire previously First Wave and Total Purchasing Practice. Until January 2006, he was Chief Executive of North Bradford PCT, a Three Star Trust having previously won the Prime Minister's Award for excellence and which won the PCT of the Year in 2006. He is a former Clinical Advisor in the Policy & Strategy Directorate of the Department of Health and at present National Deputy Clinical Director for Primary Care. Former Joint Chief Executive Officer of Airedale PCT and North Bradford PCT, he has also worked as an associate of the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit and has worked at a senior level within the Department of Health and on committees such as Payment by Results. Dr Rutter retains an ongoing clinical commitment and was made O.B.E. for Services to Medicine in January 2000 in recognition of his contribution to general practice and numerous national organisations.