Notice of General Meeting

Monday 6 June 2011

Southern Cross Healthcare Group PLC

('Southern Cross', 'the Company' or 'the Group')

Notification of General Meeting

Southern Cross Healthcare Group has sent to its shareholders, a notice of general meeting to be held pursuant to section 656 of the Companies Act 2006 and associated proxy forms. Copies of the notice of meeting are available on its corporate website http://investors.schealthcare.co.uk/. In addition, attention is drawn to the Company's Interim Results for the 6 months ended 31 March 2011 which were published on 19 May 2011 and are also available at http://investors.schealthcare.co.uk/.

The general meeting will be held at 1 Finsbury Avenue, London, EC2M 2PP on 12 July 2011 at 10.30 a.m. At the general meeting, the directors will provide shareholders with an update on the financial position of Southern Cross and its subsidiary undertakings (the "Group").

Copies of the notice of meeting have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism, and will shortly be available for inspection at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do.

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About Southern Cross

Southern Cross is, in terms of number of beds, the largest UK provider of care home services for the elderly and a major provider of specialist services for people with physical and/or learning disabilities. The Group's care homes for the elderly operate under two distinct brands: Southern Cross Healthcare and Ashbourne Senior Living. Both brands provide a range of social and personal care services and nursing care services for elderly people with physical frailties and differing forms of dementia. The Group's specialist services operate under the Active Care Partnerships brand and provide long-term care services for people with physical and/or learning disabilities and for younger people with complex forms of challenging behaviour.

Southern Cross is focused on providing high quality care in well invested facilities, seeking to be the home of choice in each local community in which it operates. The Group provides care services for most of the local authorities in the UK which, together with the NHS, represent circa 78% of the Group's revenues. Its care home portfolio is largely purpose-built with a high percentage of single occupancy rooms and rooms with ensuite bathrooms.