Spiral Health was a Community Interest Company based in Blackpool formed in 2012 by nurses from Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. [1]
It ran two care homes in Bispham, Blackpool, where there are 28 beds, and Preston, where there were 64 beds, which were also used for rehabilitation and a physiotherapy at home programme. It was praised for its high levels of staff engagement. There were 121 staff. [2]
It was said to create £17.5m worth of financial value each year. It provided 17,628 rehabilitation bed nights in 2014/5 for 1,171 patients, and is said to have saved more than £7 million in the cost of A&E attendances. [3]
It won the title of Lancashire’s Social Enterprise of the Year in November 2014. [4]
It took over the Little Sisters of the Poor nursing home in Preston in 2017. [5]
Spiral Health CIC ceased trading 31st January 2019 [6]
Spiral Health was a Community Interest Company based in Blackpool formed in 2012 by nurses from Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. [1]
It ran two care homes in Bispham, Blackpool, where there are 28 beds, and Preston, where there were 64 beds, which were also used for rehabilitation and a physiotherapy at home programme. It was praised for its high levels of staff engagement. There were 121 staff. [2]
It was said to create £17.5m worth of financial value each year. It provided 17,628 rehabilitation bed nights in 2014/5 for 1,171 patients, and is said to have saved more than £7 million in the cost of A&E attendances. [3]
It won the title of Lancashire’s Social Enterprise of the Year in November 2014. [4]
It took over the Little Sisters of the Poor nursing home in Preston in 2017. [5]
Spiral Health CIC ceased trading 31st January 2019 [6]