Medical Practice / GP Surgery: business succession in the UK

Name: Medical Practice / GP Surgery business succession in the UK
Creator: ExitRadar
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6,655 UK medical practice / GP surgery companies — 22.7% — have a director aged 60 or over.

9.8 points below the all-trades average of 32.5%.

Companies measured29,306

Director aged 60+6,655

Exposure rate22.7%

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

29,306

Companies measured

6,655

With a director 60+

1,427

With a director 70+

22.7%

Exposure rate

Of the 6,655 with a director over 60, 354 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Medical Practice / GP Surgery by region

Region	Companies	60+	Rate
Wales	705	201	28.5%
Northern Ireland	365	102	27.9%
South East	3,410	905	26.5%
Scotland	790	194	24.6%
South West	1,421	345	24.3%
London	8,059	1,909	23.7%
East Midlands	1,980	442	22.3%
North East	701	152	21.7%
North West	3,961	831	21%
West Midlands	2,889	596	20.6%
Yorkshire & The Humber	2,307	457	19.8%
East of England	2,705	521	19.3%

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, "Medical Practice / GP Surgery: business succession in the UK", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/health-medical/

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.