Corporate care groups now hold over half the market In a year of mergers and acquisitions which have resulted in considerable reshuffling in the UK’

Hammering home the rising prominence of large scale care groups, the country’s top ten providers operate 97,000 places between them – some 24% of independent bed stock. This group includes the stock exchange quoted market leader Southern Cross Healthcare which, with almost 33,000 beds in 630 facilities, currently holds an 8% share of the market….