03 Profile
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Hansard to 13 November 2026 · 31,544 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
All voices01 Voice · Sector leader · Care home closures & provider failure
Eddy McDowall: no photograph is held, so the sector leader plate is shown instead.
Sector leader
Eddy McDowall
Chief executive, Oxfordshire Association of Care Providers
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Quoted in the press, across 1 topic since 18 Jun 2026
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Eddy McDowall: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- Chief executive, Oxfordshire Association of Care Providers
- Press coverage
- Quoted in the press
- Most recently quoted
- 18 Jun 2026
04 The signal · where Eddy McDowall sits on care home closures & provider failure
Quoted
Quoted in the press on care home closures & provider failure.
Placed by press coverage on this topic only, not across all topics.
Professor Martin Green OBESector leaderChief Executive, Care EnglandLeading
Mario Kreft MBESector leaderOwner, Pendine Park Care Organisation (retired as Chair of Care Forum Wales and the Wales Care Awards in September 2026)Leading- Catriona EglintonRegulatorDeputy Director of Adult Social Care (Kent), Care Quality Commission (CQC)Leading
- Craig WoollamSector leaderhead of healthcare at Savills
- Kuljit GrewalSector leaderChief Executive, Oakwood Care Group
- Eddy McDowallSector leaderChief executive, Oxfordshire Association of Care Providers
- Neil CoxSector leaderCQC's deputy director for adult social care in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
- Christopher MillwardClinicianDoctor; co-owner of Belmere Care Group
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05 On the record · press
What Eddy McDowall has said
By outlet · bar length shows relative volume
- bbc.com
Where Eddy McDowall has been quoted
- NHS payment delays; Care provider close to collapsebbc.com · 18 Jun 2026
How we found the articles that name Eddy McDowall: we searched news for these terms.
- care home closure
- provider failure
- residential care closure
- care home insolvency
- care home fees
- care home places
- care market
- market sustainability
Also searched with “care home closure” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for Care home closures & provider failure
Verbatim
“We're asking the ICB to take on the financial risk for that £44m, which if we calculate that as part of the ICB overall budget of £6bn, it adds up to 0.73%”
Related media coverage
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Chief executives, directors and spokespeople of trade bodies, representative associations and charities speaking for the sector. Citations are counted by an automated scan of UK press coverage and may be incomplete. Roles, biographies and contact details are researched and human-reviewed before they appear here; anything not yet reviewed is simply absent rather than shown unverified. This profile was last updated on 12 Nov 2026. See the methodology for how this page is built, or email contact@bridgeheadcommunications.com to correct anything on it.