“Our mission is simple, to help you find, fund, and protect the care you deserve – while preserving the legacy you’ve built for those you love.”
I founded Shaw Healthcare with one simple belief: the people who deliver care should own the value they create. That’s why Shaw was built as a staff-owned business, giving those on the front line of care the dignity, recognition, and shared ownership they deserve.
Today, Shaw Healthcare is the UK’s largest staff-owned health and social care company, offering care home, community hospital, and domiciliary care services. However, providing care is only part of the challenge. In the UK, arranging and paying for care is notoriously complex. Too many families are left to navigate a confusing system, often at a time of stress or crisis—and far too many are forced to sell their home to fund their care. To change that, I created My Care My Home, offering free, expert advice to help people understand their options and access the care easily.
To change that, I created My Care My Home, offering free, expert advice to help people understand their options and access the care they want. Because care and home ownership are deeply personal It was this experience—seeing how hard people worked to own a home, only to lose it to care fees—that led me to develop The Care and Home Inheritance Plan (CHIP). The CHIP does what successive Governments’ long promised but never delivered Care Cap was meant to do. In contrast to the yet to be delivered Care Cap, the CHIP –
I made sure My Lifetime Care, the organisation behind CHIP, is wholly owned by a registered charity—My Respite Care. That means your care, and your home, remain in the hands of a mission-driven organisation, not a private company.