HCL hit by more top departures

 

Another board member has quit crisis-torn Healthcare Locums as the medical staffing company battles to regain some stability.

Non-executive director Alasdair Liddell, who has been on the board since HCL floated in November 2005, yesterday announced he was leaving.

Chairman Peter Sullivan said Liddell had made clear his intention to step down after a transition period.

Entrepreneur Kate Bleasdale, who founded HCL when she won a £2.2m sexual discrimination case against her former employer Match Group, was dismissed following an internal probe.

A row between Bleasdale and then chairman Alan Walker saw him resign and later replaced by Sullivan, the former boss of Standard Chartered bank in Hong Kong.