48
Registered care homes
Care home operator
Willowbrook Healthcare Limited
48 registered care homes, about 4,308 beds across 17 counties in England. Portfolio, ratings and the finance an acquisition or refinance would use.
Written and reviewed by Matt Lenzie Founder & Principal Broker · 25 years arranging care home finance · Reviewed June 2026
4,308
Registered beds
17
Counties covered
88%
Rated Good or Outstanding
Willowbrook Healthcare Limited operates 48 CQC-registered care homes with about 4,308 beds across 17 counties in England, a substantial regional group. Around 88% of its rated homes are rated Good or Outstanding. For an acquirer, lender or investor the group's covenant rests on that trading base and bed stock, and its CQC rating profile is the clearest read on operational quality across the portfolio.
Financing a group like Willowbrook Healthcare Limited
We arrange finance relevant to a group of this scale: portfolio acquisition and whole-company funding, refinancing of an existing facility, development capital for new beds, and sale-and-leaseback to release freehold value while the operator keeps trading. Whether you are acquiring Willowbrook Healthcare Limited, competing with it locally, or benchmarking covenant and rating profile before lending, the portfolio below is the operating footprint a credit decision reads.
Finance we arrange for operators
CQC rating profile
| Outstanding | 3 |
| Good | 35 |
| Requires improvement | 5 |
| Not yet rated | 5 |
Geographic spread
Where Willowbrook Healthcare Limited operates
The group's footprint by county, the operating geography a lender or acquirer underwrites.
| County | Homes | Beds | Towns |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surrey | 9 | 851 | 7 |
| Greater London | 6 | 577 | 6 |
| West Midlands | 5 | 345 | 3 |
| Hampshire | 4 | 357 | 4 |
| Hertfordshire | 3 | 276 | 3 |
| Kent | 3 | 318 | 2 |
| Northamptonshire | 3 | 263 | 3 |
| Berkshire | 2 | 209 | 2 |
| Buckinghamshire | 2 | 180 | 2 |
| Cambridgeshire | 2 | 146 | 2 |
| Dorset | 2 | 218 | 1 |
| Essex | 2 | 185 | 2 |
| Derbyshire | 1 | 63 | 1 |
| Leicestershire | 1 | 60 | 1 |
| Norfolk | 1 | 77 | 1 |
| Sussex | 1 | 107 | 1 |
| Warwickshire | 1 | 76 | 1 |
Portfolio
Willowbrook Healthcare Limited care homes
Every registered home in the group, largest by bed count first.
Source: Care Quality Commission care directory, 03 June 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Registration and bed data only; not affiliated with or endorsed by Willowbrook Healthcare Limited.
Acquiring, refinancing or competing with Willowbrook Healthcare Limited?
Send us the deal or the home and we will come back with a view on fundability and likely terms within one working day.