Vocare is a provider of Out-of-hours services to the NHS in England based in Newcastle upon Tyne.
[1] It was converted from a community benefit society to a private company limited by shares in December 2016.
[2] It was announced in 2017 that a £48m contract for Out-of-hours service GP and 111 services in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly had been awarded to a consortium of Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, Kernow Health Community Interest Company and Vocare.
The company was the highest entry in the North East’s Top 200 list of largest companies 2016 [5] and is the largest provider of GP out-of-hours and urgent care services in the region, having grown from a turnover of circa £10m in 2008 to around £77m in 2017.
John Harrison was the Chief Executive until the acquisition in 2017, at which point Andy Gregory became Managing Director.