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Westminster Healthcare is to be acquired by Barchester for £525m, creating a combined chain of 160 care homes with about 8,000 staff. 20-Oct-2004 Westminster Healthcare, the operator of 88 freehold nursing homes, is to be auctioned by 3i for about £450m. 19-Aug-2004 Westminster Healthcare, the operator of about 90 nursing homes, has undergone a £267m management buy-out backed by 3i. 02-May-2002 Westminster Healthcare is to sell the Priory chain of 29 health clinics to Doughty Hanson for £290m. 29-Apr-2002 Westminster Healthcare is in discussions with a number of companies about plans to sell the Priory chain of private health clinics for at least £300m. 18-Mar-2002 Westminster Healthcare is planning to create a further 160 jobs at its new £3m headquarters in Inverness over the next two years. 23-Nov-2000 Westminster Healthcare is to set up a £3m headquarters for its Senior Living Division at the Beechwood Business Park in Inverness, with the creation of 80 new jobs. 20-Mar-2000 Westminster Healthcare has acquired Priory Healthcare for £100m, and plans to use the Priory brand to offer corporate services such as stress management programmes. 01-Feb-2000 Westminster Healthcare, the nursing homes group, has agreed a £214m takeover bid from a new company called Canterbury, which is backed by Goldman Sachs. 23-Mar-1999 Westminster Healthcare, the nursing homes company, has issued a profits warning due to delays in integrating acquisitions. 15-May-1998 Peverel is acquiring OM, the residential property joint venture between Westminster Healthcare of the UK and Holiday Retirement Corp of the US, for £8.1m. 19-Mar-1998 Westminster Healthcare has acquired Magnetic Resonance Imaging for £3.5m, in order to strengthen its diagnostics division in the south east. 13-Feb-1998 Westminster Healthcare is to sell and lease back 10 nursing homes to Atlantic Healthcare Finance in a £17.5m deal, and some of the proceeds will be used to buy new businesses. 10-Feb-1998 Westminster Healthcare has sold 12 nursing homes to Tamaris for £20m, and Tamaris will sell and lease them back to a new investment trust set up by Westminster and Holiday Retirement Corp of the US. 16-Dec-1997 Westminster Healthcare is acquiring Libra Health Care for £22.8m, and is selling Libra's New Hall Hospital, which specialises in plastic surgery, to Community Hospitals for £8m. 23-Sep-1997 Westminster Healthcare is aiming to focus on higher-margin operations such as rehabilitation centres and assisted living apartments, funded by the sale of about 10% of its nursing homes. 15-Aug-1997 Westminster Healthcare has acquired PPP Healthcare's 11 nursing centres for £23m, in a deal which will see Westminster becoming the primary supplier of long-term care for PPP's medical insurance customers. 05-Jun-1997 Westminster Healthcare has failed in its attempt to acquire Goldsborough for £70m. 17-Jul-1996 Westminster Healthcare has made a £75m takeover bid for Goldsborough Healthcare, the nursing home operator that has expanded into homecare and acute care hospitals. 18-Jun-1996 Westminster Healthcare aims to get half of its turnover from non-nursing home operations within five years. 09-Feb-1996 Westminster Healthcare has acquired the Highbank Hospital Group, which runs two brain injury centres in Bury, for £6.46m. 02-Dec-1995 Westminster Healthcare is acquiring Peverel, the retirement home management company, in a joint venture with Holiday Retirement Corp of the US. 23-Nov-1995
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