About Westcott Care
Westcott Care is a values-led owner and operator of elderly care homes in England. The Group owns and supports residential and nursing care services delivered through its operating brands, Brancaster and Cinnabar.
Westcott Care has been established as a long-term platform for sustainable, fit-for-the-future care. Its focus is on combining high-quality, person-centred provision with robust governance, professional support services, disciplined investment and responsible capital stewardship. This model is designed to ensure that care homes can thrive operationally while remaining resilient, well-governed and aligned to the needs of residents, families and local communities.
At the heart of Westcott’s strategy is the development of locally embedded Communities of Care. Each home is being supported to operate as a centre of excellence for defined models of care, working in partnership with local health, wellbeing and community services to provide the right support, at the right time, in the right setting.
Westcott Care’s role is to act as owner, steward and enabler. Group-level governance, leadership, finance, estates, digital and operational support functions are designed to free home-level teams to focus on what matters most: delivering compassionate, high-quality care that respects individual purpose, dignity and quality of life.
Westcott Care has been established as a long-term platform for sustainable, fit-for-the-future care. Its focus is on combining high-quality, person-centred provision with robust governance, professional support services, disciplined investment and responsible capital stewardship. This model is designed to ensure that care homes can thrive operationally while remaining resilient, well-governed and aligned to the needs of residents, families and local communities.
At the heart of Westcott’s strategy is the development of locally embedded Communities of Care. Each home is being supported to operate as a centre of excellence for defined models of care, working in partnership with local health, wellbeing and community services to provide the right support, at the right time, in the right setting.
Westcott Care’s role is to act as owner, steward and enabler. Group-level governance, leadership, finance, estates, digital and operational support functions are designed to free home-level teams to focus on what matters most: delivering compassionate, high-quality care that respects individual purpose, dignity and quality of life.
Andrew Whelan
Founder & Executive Chair
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Andrew is a health and social care leader with over 25 years’ experience comprising the ownership, governance, financing and transformation of health and care organisations in the UK and internationally. His career combines senior leadership roles in care delivery with deep experience of investment, capital structuring and organisational change in complex, highly regulated environments.
He began his career as a senior healthcare investment banker at Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan, advising corporates, investors and governments on M&A, financing and strategy across the health and care sector. He later moved into operational and executive roles, including serving as Chief Executive and Board Director of a private equity-backed elderly care home business through a period of transformation and successful exit. |
His decision to move from advisory roles into ownership and operation was shaped by personal experience. Whilst supporting his own grandmother through the care system, Andrew saw first-hand how fragmented, opaque and difficult it could be to navigate, even for a family with medical and social care expertise. That experience sharpened his conviction that the system does not consistently work as it should for the people who rely on it, and reinforced his commitment to building care organisations that combine compassion, clarity, quality and long-term sustainability. Further reflections on this experience and the wider need for system reform are set out in an article published by Future Care Capital: “We must fix our broken care system so families don’t suffer like mine.”
Alongside Westcott Care, Andrew has extensive board-level experience as a Chair, Non-Executive Director and Charity Trustee. He is currently a Trustee and Board Director of Medical Detection Dogs and was the Founding Chair of Future Care Capital, where he led the transformation of a long-established charity into an independent organisation focused on enabling better future health and care through system reform, innovation and investment.
Andrew has also advised the UK Government through Healthcare UK, a joint initiative of the Department of Health and Social Care, the Department for International Trade and NHS England, leading work on inward investment into health and social care and authoring internationally published analysis on ageing societies and elderly care.
His work is grounded in the belief that high-quality care, ethical leadership and commercial sustainability are interdependent, with a focus on building organisations that deliver long-term value for individuals, communities and society.
Alongside Westcott Care, Andrew has extensive board-level experience as a Chair, Non-Executive Director and Charity Trustee. He is currently a Trustee and Board Director of Medical Detection Dogs and was the Founding Chair of Future Care Capital, where he led the transformation of a long-established charity into an independent organisation focused on enabling better future health and care through system reform, innovation and investment.
Andrew has also advised the UK Government through Healthcare UK, a joint initiative of the Department of Health and Social Care, the Department for International Trade and NHS England, leading work on inward investment into health and social care and authoring internationally published analysis on ageing societies and elderly care.
His work is grounded in the belief that high-quality care, ethical leadership and commercial sustainability are interdependent, with a focus on building organisations that deliver long-term value for individuals, communities and society.