Barchester: who owns it, who runs it and what the accounts show

Barchester Healthcare is a care provider running care homes in Britain that offer residential, nursing and dementia care, along with independent hospitals providing mental health services. Its income comes from fees for residents' care, paid either privately by residents and their families or by local authorities and the NHS for publicly funded places. Its homes are registered with and inspected by the relevant care regulators, such as the Care Quality Commission in England. It is privately owned.

In brief: care homes · residential, nursing and dementia care · private and publicly funded fees · privately owned

The Companies House register records Mr Chaim Shimon Deutsch as the person with significant control of Barchester Healthcare Limited, company number 02792285.

The register names an individual, not a company, as its controller.

The Companies House register lists 4 current officers for Barchester Healthcare Limited.

Barchester Healthcare Limited reported turnover of £978m in the year to December 2025. That was up 1.1% on £967m the year before.

It reported 16,791 employees. The year before it reported 17,200.

It filed a pre-tax loss of £32m for the year, against a pre-tax profit of £55m the year before.

Staff costs came to £559m. That is an average of £33,000 a head. It ended the year with £6m at the bank and net assets of £30m. It paid dividends of £208m.

Barchester Healthcare Limited has registered 17 charges at Companies House, of which 1 is still outstanding. A charge is security a lender takes over a company's assets; one is satisfied when the lending behind it is repaid or released.