MEAD MEDICAL SERVICES LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-05-29 (this month)
Last made up 2025-05-15
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£366K
+377% vs 2024
Net assets
£587K
+10,876.3% vs 2024
Employees
345
-4.2% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£787K
+374.1% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Health Care median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £10,998,055 | £12,198,431 | |
| Operating profit | -£290,954 | £781,328 | |
| Profit before tax | -£287,239 | £787,454 | |
| Net profit | -£281,400 | £581,884 | |
| Cash | £76,686 | £365,768 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £172,858 | £779,506 | |
| Net assets | £5,350 | £587,234 | |
| Equity | £5,350 | £587,234 | |
| Average employees | 360 | 345 | |
| Wages | £6,886,980 | £7,108,317 | |
| Directors' remuneration | £0 | £0 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
-
Turnover
+10.9%
£10,998,055 £12,198,431
-
Cash
+377%
£76,686 £365,768
-
Net assets
+10,876.3%
£5,350 £587,234
-
Employees
-4.2%
360 345
-
Operating profit
+368.5%
-£290,954 £781,328
-
Profit before tax
+374.1%
-£287,239 £787,454
-
Wages
+3.2%
£6,886,980 £7,108,317
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -2.6% | 6.4% | |
| Net margin | -2.6% | 4.8% | |
| Return on capital employed | -168.3% | 100.2% | |
| Current ratio | 0.33x | 0.78x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Name history
Renamed 2 times since incorporation
- MEAD MEDICAL SERVICES LIMITED 1991-01-21 → present
- MEADOWLARK LIMITED 1987-05-28 → 1991-01-21
- AVHALL LIMITED 1987-02-26 → 1987-05-28
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- BDO LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“On this basis, the directors believe that they have a reasonable expectation that the company will have adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Accordingly, the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis.”
Significant events
- “The Group Board of Mead Medical Holdings Limited has successfully taken measures to maintain the capital reserve funds of the Mead Care Group as well as to sustain and build on the cash-flow position. This approach is ongoing, and the outcomes have resulted in Mead Medical Services Limited (MMSL) the Operating Company returning to pre-pandemic profitability.”
- “The Group supported an application to the Home Office for a Sponsorship Licence enabling the recruitment and retention of migrant workers already working in the UK in the care sector. This has cut down substantially on the agency spend, as well as reducing the recruitment and training costs being permanent staff.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 4 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SHEPHERD & WEDDERBURN SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2000-09-01 | — | — |
| BEST, Michael Robert | Director | 2001-03-21 | Aug 1947 | British |
| GARDNER, Aileen Elizabeth | Director | 2000-07-12 | Jun 1953 | British |
| MEAD, David Edwin, Dr | Director | — | Nov 1945 | British |
Show 4 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| R & R URQUHART | Corporate Secretary | — | 1997-05-08 |
| THE COMMERCIAL LAW PRACTICE | Corporate Secretary | 1997-05-08 | 2000-09-01 |
| MEAD, Elizabeth Chalwin | Director | — | 2003-03-13 |
| OSWALD, James Walter | Director | 1997-10-25 | 2007-08-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mead Medical Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2017-04-03 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 160 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-05-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-12-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2024-05-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2023-05-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-12-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2022-06-08 | CH04 | officers | Change corporate secretary company with change date | |
| 2022-04-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-04-01 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2021-12-06 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2021-04-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2021-04-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2020-04-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-09-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2019-04-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2018-12-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2018-10-17 | CH04 | officers | Change corporate secretary company with change date | |
| 2018-04-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2018-01-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.