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Occupancy-led marketing
SEO, paid and content built around catchment — measured in enquiries-to-move-ins, not impressions.
Social care communications
Where care
makes the news.
We put the care sector in the nationals, building the reputations that families trust and funders respect.
Start the conversation→BBC · Mirror ·The Independent
220+pieces landed
The promise
We understand CQC, the workforce crisis, local-authority commissioning and what occupancy actually depends on.
60+
Care providers represented
98%
Average occupancy across managed estates
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Hostile media stories landed on managed crises
On the record
The coverage does the talking
A live feed of where our work has been showing up: real placements, real titles, real reach.
604M reach
ENGLAND
Monkey business at Leamington Spa care home birthday party
83.7M readers
UK NEWS
Penguins visit care home to give OAPs a dose of pet therapy
25M reach
SOCIAL AFFAIRS
Unpaid leave 'huge step forward for millions of carers'
Syndicated
SOCIAL AFFAIRS
Unpaid leave 'huge step forward for millions of carers'
New from Bridgehead
Care home marketing you can run yourself
bamboo is our care home marketing software. It writes your Google and Meta campaigns from your CQC profile, hosts the landing pages, logs every enquiry and ranks you weekly against every comparable home nearby. Free to start.
01Win enquiries
Campaigns · Landing pages · Enquiry tracking
02Beat local rivals
Presence Score · Competitors · Media coverage
03Protect your name
Reviews · Reputation audit · Coverage books
04Get talked about
Press releases · Media database · Newsletter
05Be found
SEO audit · Answer engines · Care calendar
Capabilities
What a care engagement actually covers
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CQC and policy comms
Inspection narrative, factual-accuracy responses and engagement with DHSC, ADASS and APPGs.
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Sector reputation
Op-eds and thought leadership in Caring Times, HealthInvestor, Care Industry News and the nationals.
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Crisis and safeguarding
Clinically-informed crisis comms for serious-incident reviews and safeguarding alerts.
Selected work
Campaigns like yours,
in the press that matters
Who we work with
The organisations sitting around our boardroom table
Our specialisms
How we work in care
Care home marketing
The marketing that fills beds and defends fees for care operators.
Care home marketing plan
A working, one-page plan your whole team can run.
Digital marketing for care homes
Local search, profile and website that win the enquiry online.
Background reading
FAQs
What people ask us first
No — we deliberately scale from family-owned single homes (4-bed and up) to FTSE-backed groups. The mechanics differ; the principles don't.
Yes. We support providers through inspection challenges, factual-accuracy responses and the reputational rebuild that follows. We work in lockstep with your quality team.
Yes. Workforce is the binding constraint on this sector — we run dedicated carer-recruitment campaigns covering local SEO, paid social and employer brand.
For care homes
Clinical frameworks for care homes
Founded by our team
Headland Care Consulting: condition-specific care frameworks
Founded by Dr Sheel Mehta, a practising NHS Clinical Oncology Consultant, and William Walter. Headland designs condition-specific care frameworks for UK care homes, built by NHS consultants and delivered by your team.
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