Mytime Active has appointed James Watkins as the new director of Health Services. Watkins has a background in healthcare across the NHS and independent sectors and was previously the chief executive of the social enterprise Community Dental Services.

He has spent 20 years in senior health care leadership roles, including at the leading mental healthcare charity, St Andrew's Healthcare, where he was responsible for the successful development of five new multi-million pound hospitals on time and to budget, securing board approval for more than £100m of funding for these new hospital units.

He holds an MBA from the University of Warwick Business School.

Watkins' role at Mytime, a social enterprise, will be to provide strategic leadership to the Mytime Health division, ensuring safe and effective delivery of services to clients and service commissioners.

He will also oversee a regional growth strategy for Mytime Health?s range of programmes aimed at boosting the wellbeing of local communities.

Watkins said: "Mytime Health has the skills, innovation and ambition to expand its offering to communities beyond its current reach."