Nick Heywood-Smith is a registered physiotherapist and CEO of Wellness & Lifestyles Australia (W&L), a business that he developed with his wife Nikki that specialises in aged care and provides mobile allied health services to clients and facilities across Australia.

1. Nick Heywood-Smith completed his Bachelor of Applied Science in
Physiotherapy from the University of South Australia in November 1998
at the age of 21. Since completing his degree he has worked in a variety
of health care settings around the world including five different countries.
His work overseas has included working for the National Health Service
(NHS) throughout Great Britain in both inpatient and outpatient settings;
owning and operating a private massage and rehabilitation business in
Kitzbuhel, Austria over two winter ski seasons;
consultancy physiotherapy work in public and private facilities in Vancouver and Banff, Canada, and private
physiotherapy services provided to Ed Homer, a double below knee amputee, during a summit attempt of Mt Everest
in 2001 in Tibet.
Following five years overseas, Nick and his wife Nikki started Wellness & Lifestyles Australia from the 2nd bedroom
of a unit they were living in in Glenelg North. It began with a single physiotherapist (Nick) providing mobile allied
health services to aged care facilities and a part-time marketing consultant (Nikki). It has now grown to a company
with over 160 therapists and staff with the full scope of allied health services including physiotherapy, podiatry,
speech pathology, occupational therapy, dietetics, and educational training.
W&L is a market leader in the provision of mobile allied health services to facilities in throughout Australia and
service over 13,000 aged care beds. Its current clients consist of aged care facilities, the intellectually and
physically disabled, community health services, day therapy centres, home care package providers, public and
regional hospitals and private clients in their homes. It is W&L’s vision to become the benchmark for aged care
therapy services and education in Australia, supplying ‘best in class’ services that surpass need.
W&L is an accredited provider of allied health services to the Southern Adelaide Health Service, the Transition
Care Program and Disability SA. They have been finalists in the Telstra Business Awards in 2008 and 2009, in
InBusiness Magazine’s Fast Movers for 2007, 2008 and 2009 and recently achieved the BRW’s Fastest 100 list for
2009. Nick was also awarded the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur Of The Year in the Young category for the central
region, Australia.
Nick sits on the Young Variety Group (Variety Children’s Charity) as a committee member and is passionate about
helping people thru healthcare and education.
Nick’s interests include water and mountain sports, travel and his daughters Mia, Indie and Sage.
If your aged care dietitian is not providing services in this way, then contact W&L to make a booking on 8331
3000.

2. Get To Know Nick were just starting they did not hire
anyone. He was the only
Heywood-Smith physiotherapist who provides allied
health services to different aged
Building your own business is a tough facilities in their locality. Nikki on the
job. It will only be busy if you have to other hand, serves as their company’s
help you with it. Wellness & Lifestyles marketing consultant. It is her
or W&L is the business of Nick responsibility to promote and seek
Heywood-Smith and his wife Nikki. It clients who will be willing to hire
specializes in providing allied health them. After years of existence and
services to individual clients and hard work, the firm has grown to one
other health facilities in the country. one-hundred sixty therapists and
Nick was a dedicated student who employees who do service for
finished his Bachelor’s Degree for podiatry, dietetics, speech pathology,
Applied Science in Physiotherapy in educational training, and
the year 1998. He went around the occupational therapy.
world to explore his options and W&L is now the market’s leading care
worked in different sites in five provider for all over the country
countries. He rendered his service particularly to more than ten
with the NHS or the National Health thousand aged patients. Their clients
Service before he finally owned and are mostly physically and mentally
run some rehabilitation centers. He challenged aged individuals,
works as a consultant for hospitals, private clients, community
physiotherapy work in both public and rural services, and specialized
and private facilities. One perk of his therapy clinics.
job is he got to work with the famous One of the goals of the company is to
Ed Homer who was a double knee be the best in education and
amputee who tried to climb the therapeutic services supplier. There
highest peak in the world in the year are different facilities that employ
2001. workers that are inefficient when it
After five years of working in various comes to documentation, assisting
countries, he had acquired skills and residents to move, pain
knowledge to build his own empire. management, and rehabilitative
Together with his lovely wife Nikki, procedures. The company that they
they started their business venture should get should be like W&L. This
which is W&L in one of the rooms of firm is committed in supplying
their very own residence. When they workers that are well trained and
If your aged care dietitian is not providing services in this way, then contact W&L to make a booking on 8331
3000.

3. efficient with the job that will be allied health services to the qualified
assigned to them. beneficiaries. Their organization is
If you want to rise in the competitive known as W&L or Wellness and
world of wellness, Nick Heywood- Lifestyle that supports senior citizens
Smith and W&L can help you by to bring their good health back and to
providing physiotherapist and other help them live a normal and a happy
health assistants who will aid you to life.
reach your goals for your patients To give you a background of Nick, he
and to maximize your budget to be finished his Bachelor’s Degree for
able to provide the best service to Applied Science in Physiotherapy in
individuals who depend on you. 1998. He loves to travel around the
world and do charity works most
especially to the aged individuals who
Nick Heywood-Smith and are lack of medical attention and
His Rewarding Job financial assistance. He is very
generous not only to his family and
Taking care of aged people is a very friends but as well to the people who
challenging job. Determination, skills, need help. He worked first in the NHS
and passion are the things you need or the National Health Service prior
in order to fulfill your duty. Assisting to running his own healthcare
senior citizens in their health and organization.
financial problems is such a He has a big contribution in the field
rewarding job to do. ACFI, or also of healthcare because of the
known as Aged Care Funding programs such ACFI that he created.
Instrument, is a system created by He is currently practicing his course
the government wherein the as a physiotherapist as a consultant
objective is to help sick and old both in public and private sectors. A
citizens by providing them financial lot of people have known him for his
assistance. Wellness and Lifestyle excellence, dedication, and passion in
Australia, a business owned by Nick rendering rewarding services to those
Heywood-Smith is also geared to help who need healthcare assistance and
promote the wellbeing of the elderly financial support. He manages
as well as younger people. funding program that helps aged
They put up this business to help patients in dealing with their
people in terms of financial and expenses for the medications and
healthcare services. They offer other necessary needs.
programs that focus on providing
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3000.

4. Nick worked for almost five years in in the country and is striving hard to
various countries providing services provide superb services to clients.
which are related to his profession. Practicing this profession has made
He never ceases to look for bigger him realize the importance of what
opportunities that would enable him he does. He knows that not everyone
to help more aged individuals that’s has the time or the capability to go to
why he often travel in different hospitals and other health facilities to
countries to practice his profession, be treated. This is the reason why
show his concern, and to inspire when the opportunity presented
patients regardless of their race. He itself, Nick made an ingenious move
spends most of his life traveling and to start a company that offers mobile
doing rewarding jobs with hard work, allied services that aims to help
dedication, professionalism. individuals who cannot go to
Nick Heywood-Smith is not just a hospitals. His company intends to
pure businessman who is after for give assistance to people located in
profits. He is considered as an expert secluded areas and the ones who find
entrepreneur with a big heart. He it hard to move because of their
also provides work for nursing situation.
graduates and other healthcare Nick’s company is known as the W&L
related courses to help not only otherwise known as Wellness and
patients but skilled and dedicated Lifestyle. This all started with a single
workers as well. physiotherapist and since then, it has
grown into a renowned company in
Nick Heywood-Smith: The the country. The company he runs
Drive That Started It All offers various services including
educational training, occupational
therapy, physiotherapy, as well as
Nick Heywood-Smith is a professional
speech pathology. Indeed, a lot of
Physiotherapist and has devoted
people have been provided with fast,
himself in helping people through his
efficient, and reliable assistance all
profession. This man has completed
because of Nick’s ingenious idea to
his profession at the age of twenty-
provide mobile allied health services.
one and since then used his expertise
The company has helped over 13,000
in helping individuals by working in a
individuals from different countries
variety of health care facilities in five
and is continuing to provide huge
different countries. He’s the CEO of
assistance until today.
one of the fastest growing companies
If your aged care dietitian is not providing services in this way, then contact W&L to make a booking on 8331
3000.

5. Skill alone doesn’t help a person
become successful. Determination is
the root which blooms several
important qualities vital to success in
business. His determination to lend
help to people is the cornerstone to
his success. Nick’s endeavors would
have been in vain if not for his
fortitude to lend trustworthy
services.
The company he started has gained a
lot of recognition not only in his
home country but in other places as
well. He doesn’t just help people to
satisfy his personal interests. He finds
satisfaction in helping others and that
is what makes him a great individual.
He has been featured in several
television stations and newspapers.
He has also started a charitable
foundation which ensures that all the
money and goods donated heads
straight to the poor. Nick Heywood-
Smith is truly an admirable person
and that says a lot about the
company he started.
If your aged care dietitian is not providing services in this way, then contact W&L to make a booking on 8331
3000.