Care Home / Nursing: business succession in the UK

Name: Care Home / Nursing business succession in the UK
Creator: ExitRadar
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9,661 UK care home / nursing companies — 33.5% — have a director aged 60 or over.

1.0 points above the all-trades average of 32.5%.

Companies measured28,826

Director aged 60+9,661

Exposure rate33.5%

Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology

28,826

Companies measured

9,661

With a director 60+

3,773

With a director 70+

33.5%

Exposure rate

Of the 9,661 with a director over 60, 991 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Care Home / Nursing by region

Region	Companies	60+	Rate
Northern Ireland	338	180	53.3%
Scotland	691	312	45.2%
North East	514	230	44.7%
Wales	886	390	44%
South West	1,909	752	39.4%
South East	3,670	1,277	34.8%
London	8,249	2,795	33.9%
East of England	2,266	736	32.5%
Yorkshire & The Humber	1,912	620	32.4%
North West	3,020	948	31.4%
West Midlands	3,146	859	27.3%
East Midlands	2,196	548	25%

Combinations with fewer than 250 measured companies are not listed separately. They are still counted in every total on this page.

Next step

This page counts director ages across the whole register. If you are looking to buy rather than to research, our Healthcare pages go further: we score each company on business quality and exit timing, and shortlist the ones worth approaching.

See UK Healthcare →

Part of the UK Business Succession Index.

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ExitRadar, "Care Home / Nursing: business succession in the UK", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/health-care-home/

Need a cut that is not published here — a different trade grouping, a finer geography, or the underlying distribution? Get in touch and we will usually provide it. Methodology.

Method. Figures cover the 3,475,770 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director — 93.8% of the 3,706,712 companies on the active register. A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over — not the board average, which would hide a 70-year-old founder sitting alongside younger co-directors. The business-quality figure covers only the subset our model assesses — see the methodology for why that is far smaller than the number with filed accounts. Data as at 13 August 2026; updated quarterly, next update October 2026. Full methodology.