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 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.
[5] Spiral Health CIC ceased trading 31st January 2019[6]