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Gordon Cochrane
Chief Executive Officer, Healthcare Homes Group
Gordon Cochrane is Chief Executive of Healthcare Homes Group, the Colchester-based care home operator. A chartered accountant, he led its 2019 buyout.
BIOGRAPHY
Gordon Cochrane is Chief Executive Officer of Healthcare Homes Group, a care home and homecare operator headquartered near Colchester, Essex. The company lists 48 care homes across East Anglia and the south of England, plus Manorcourt Homecare branches in Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk. He has overall responsibility for finance, business development, HR, quality, clinical governance and operations.
Cochrane is a chartered accountant by profession. He worked at Ernst & Young before entering health and social care in 2001 as financial director of a national care operator, according to the company's own biography. He joined Healthcare Homes in October 2016 as Commercial Director. Companies House records him as a director of Healthcare Homes Group Limited and Healthcare Homes Holdings Limited from 30 March 2017.
Healthcare Homes announced his promotion to chief executive in April 2017 (HealthInvestor and Care Home Professional reported it on 11 and 12 May 2017). The founders, David Bates and Graham Lomer, said at the time that they had known him for many years and wanted to concentrate on growth while he ran the existing services. The same announcement brought in Helen Gidlow as group chief operating officer and promoted Matt King to group finance director.
In September 2019 Cochrane, Gidlow and King completed a management buyout of Healthcare Homes Holdings Limited from Bates and Lomer. The founders stayed on as non-executive directors and Philip George remained chairman. The group then ran 37 residential and nursing homes and 13 homecare branches, with more than 3,000 staff.
He has written and spoken on the funding of adult social care. In a feature for Care Management Matters in early 2025 and in a Bournemouth Echo report in December 2024, he argued that government funding for local authorities did not cover the cost of higher employer National Insurance contributions and National Living Wage increases.
About Healthcare Homes Group. Healthcare Homes Group is based in Colchester, Essex, and completed a management buyout from its founders in September 2019. It runs 48 care homes listed on its website, alongside Manorcourt Homecare. See its rank and history
CAREER
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Chief Executive Officer · Healthcare Homes Group NOW
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OCT 2016 – APR 2017
Commercial Director · Healthcare Homes Group
ARTICLES, INTERVIEWS AND APPEARANCES
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Feb 2025
Healthcare Homes CEO highlights the crisis in the Adult Social Care SectorPROFILELinkedIn Pulse (Healthcare Homes)
Company article setting out his view that Budget cost increases, including £2.8bn across the sector, outstrip local authority funding.
Jan 2025
Measuring the impact: Will Labour's budget be the final straw for adult social care?ARTICLECare Management Matters
Feature by Cochrane on the effect of higher National Insurance contributions and National Living Wage rises on care providers. Exact day not confirmed; the page returned 403 to direct fetch.
Dec 2024
Care home chief warns of 'catastrophic consequences'PROFILEBournemouth Echo
He warns that councils face large budget increases without a fee freeze and that providers risk closure.
Sep 2019
Healthcare Homes announces management buyoutPROFILECare Industry News
Announcement of the buyout of Healthcare Homes Holdings Limited by Cochrane, Helen Gidlow and Matt King.
May 2017
Healthcare Homes appoints CEOPROFILECare Home Professional
Report of his appointment as chief executive with a statement from him and from co-founder David Bates.
May 2017
Healthcare Homes Group: Gordon Cochrane, Helen Gidlow, Matt KingPROFILEHealthInvestor
Executive moves report on his promotion to chief executive.
