The specialist healthcare division of RMT Accountants & Business Advisors has made a triple appointment as it brings in more resources to manage growing client demand and expected future growth
Adam Gilroy, Esther Adesina and Lydia Dawes have all joined Gosforth-based RMT Healthcare and are now working with a range of medical and healthcare businesses to help them manage their income streams and financial processes as efficiently as possible. Adam was previously an emergency care physician and has spent the last 12 years working in hospital A&E departments and walk-in centres across the North East while also running his own video production company as a side venture. Esther, who has taken up a new tax senior role with RMT Healthcare, originally qualified as both a solicitor and barrister in her native Nigeria before moving to England to study for a Masters degree in international tax law at Bournemouth University. On graduation, she switched tracks to begin a career in the accountancy sector, working with two leading firms in south west England before moving to the North East to be closer to her family, and is a member of both the Association of Taxation Technicians and the Chartered Institute of Taxation. After completing a Mathematics degree at Newcastle University, Lydia began her career with an accountancy practice in the south of the region while working towards gaining chartered status by completing her professional qualifications. Having also moved back to Tyneside to be closer to her family, Lydia had been looking for a career opening to help her gain experience in a specific sector. Adam Gilroy says: “Healthcare businesses can derive their income from a wide range of areas other than the direct patient care services they offer, such as medico-legal work, medical reporting, physiotherapy and radiology, and there are financial and contract issues to deal with around all of them. “When I decided it was time for a career change, I wanted to find something where I could use both my medical knowledge and the financial experience I’d picked up running my own businesses, and the specialist healthcare services that RMT provide fit the bill extremely well. “Both my medical background and my experience of running my own business give me the insight needed to help healthcare providers structure themselves in the best possible ways, and to see clearly how their financial performance reflects and impacts on the services they provide.” Esther Adesina adds: “The taxation knowledge I’ve accumulated through both my legal and accountancy career so far has helped me lay strong foundations on which to base the next stage of my career. “There are a lot of interesting new things to learn about taxation in a healthcare setting and I’m really enjoying getting to know both the sector and my new colleagues.” Lydia Dawes says: “The work I’ve done so far has given me a solid general grounding in finance and accountancy, and I wanted my next move to help me develop some more specialised knowledge. “I’ve always been interested in the medical and healthcare sectors, and joining RMT Healthcare will give me the chance to build relationships with clients that are right at the heart of it.” RMT Healthcare is acknowledged one of the UK’s leading specialist medical and healthcare accountancy practices and already the largest dedicated specialist team outside London, which acts for well over 1,000 medical professionals both within and outside the North East. It has seen significant growth over the last year as it has helped an increasing number of clients manage the financial implications and requirements of dealing with the pandemic. Maxine Pott, director at RMT Healthcare, adds: “The continuing safe provision of clinical services has obviously been a real challenge for many healthcare businesses this year and our team has been working extremely hard to ensure they can stay fully focused on their day-to-day duties while we keep their finances in proper order. “Demand for our services has grown substantially this year and we’ve been bringing in additional resources to ensure we can help clients stay on top of the financial side of their operations in the most demanding of circumstances. “Our new recruits each bring an impressive range of skills and experience with them, and with an expectation that our healthcare business will continue to grow next year, we’re very pleased to have them onboard.” “Having someone with Adam’s combination of clinical and financial knowledge on board is a huge benefit to our team and our clients, and his insight will be extremely valuable as we continue to develop our business.” RMT Accountants provides the full range of financial and business advisory services through its accountancy, specialist tax, medical and healthcare, corporate finance and recovery and insolvency teams, and works with UK companies of all sizes both within and outside the North East, as well as with a range of international clients.
