Our £100 million care partnership programme is upgrading and replacing former local authority care homes in two counties, with our joint venture care partners, The Orders of St John Care Trust.

Oxfordshire Care Homes

Since acquiring 19 residential care homes from Oxfordshire County Council in 2001, we have:

• Completed five new care homes, the latest being the £6.2 million Isis Care and Retirement Centre in Oxford
• Started construction of new accommodation with 80 care beds and 20 extra care sheltered flats
• Designed two further schemes to provide 120 care beds and 20 extra care sheltered flats

At Chipping Norton we will build an extended facility, including a GP surgery and community hospital facilities for the local Primary Care Trust.

Gloucestershire Care Homes

In 2005, bpha acquired, through a second joint venture with The Orders of St John, Gloucestershire’s 22 care homes. We are planning the first four replacement homes and will start building the first in 2007.

As with Oxfordshire, the new schemes will shift some provision away from traditional residential care beds, towards nursing and dementia care beds and extra care sheltered housing.