Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

How long does Ceuta Healthcare Limited take to pay its suppliers?

CRN 02974951 · Health & social care · 11 statutory reports on record · period to 30 Apr 2023

38days

their reported average time to pay suppliers, latest period

Well behindvs a 31-day median across 6,185 recent filers

Self-reported figure from their statutory filing. How this is compiled.

Dated record. The latest report covers a period ending 30 Apr 2023 and the company hasn’t filed since (it may have dropped below the reporting threshold). Treat the figures as historical.

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status: Active
Type: Private Limited Company
Incorporated: 6 Oct 1994
Registered office: 3 FORBURY PLACE, READING, RG1 3JH

0 outstanding charges on the register Accounts due 30 Sept 2026

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Terms vs reality

Stated terms: 30 days. Reported average: 38.

Stated terms30d

+8 days

Reported avg38d

At a glance

The key figures

30d

their stated terms

77%

invoices paid outside terms

-15d

faster over the window

±2d

steady pattern

Vs peers · latest reported averages

fasterslower

Slower than 81% of the 140 large companies reporting in health & social care.

The pattern

Getting faster

Average days to pay across their last 6 statutory reports.

terms 30d

H1 2021H2 2021H1 2022H2 2022H1 2023H1 2023

Where their supplier invoices land · latest period

within 30 days 21% 31–60 days 55% 61+ days 24%

The read · computed from their figures

Ceuta Healthcare Limited has filed 11 statutory payment periods (earliest H2 2018). Their latest report puts the average at 38 days against stated terms of 30 days.

The direction is faster: from 53 to 38 days over the window — about 15 days faster.

In the latest period 77% of invoices were paid outside their agreed terms, and 24% landed 61+ days out.

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

It is Company policy to agree appropriate terms of payment with each supplier, and to pay invoices in line with those terms subject to the timely submission of satisfactory invoices. The majority of our suppliers are on 30 day payment terms with the exception of import duty which is paid immediately.

Dispute resolution

The Company is committed to dealing with its suppliers in a fair, honest and professional manner. We seek to resolve queries as quickly as possible to both parties satisfaction prior to payment being made. The invoice approver will reject an invoice they dispute and will advise the Purchase Ledger department why and the steps needed to resolve the issue. The approver will then contact their supplier to discuss the issue for resolution. Purchase Ledger will follow up outstanding queries each week and escalate to the approvers’ manager if a satisfactory resolution has not been found. When the invoice becomes aged this is escalated to the Finance Manager and then Finance Director for further action.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H1 2023	38	77%	24%	20 Nov 2023
H1 2023	39	61%	10%	5 Jun 2023
H2 2022	41	67%	12%	1 Nov 2022
H1 2022	39	55%	11%	29 Apr 2022
H2 2021	39	50%	11%	29 Oct 2021
H1 2021	53	63%	13%	4 May 2021
H2 2020	45	78%	16%	3 Nov 2020
H1 2020	46	76%	12%	5 May 2020
H2 2019	42	67%	11%	31 Oct 2019
H1 2019	46	75%	15%	2 May 2019
H2 2018	38	61%	11%	29 Oct 2018

Working-capital effect

What a 38-day cycle ties up

Illustrative. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 38-day vs a 30-day payment cycle.

≈ £15,000

of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 38-day cycle — about £3,200 more than the same account would carry at 30-day terms.

Late Payment Act. The Late Payment of Commercial Debts Act lets a supplier charge statutory interest and fixed compensation on invoices paid past agreed terms. Work out what a late invoice is worth → Whether it applies depends on your contract — check with an adviser.

Quick answers

Are they getting slower or faster?

Their reported average has moved about 15 days faster over the window (53 → 38 days).

What's their typical pay point?

Their latest reports average around day 38, moving within about ±2 days. Treat that as a historical reference point, not a promise for a new invoice.

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How UK payment reporting works

What is a Payment Practices Report?

UK companies and LLPs above a size threshold — broadly, two of: turnover over £54m, balance sheet over £27m, or more than 250 employees — must report twice a year, under the Reporting on Payment Practices and Performance Regulations 2017, how quickly they actually pay suppliers: the average time to pay, the share of invoices paid in 30 days or fewer, 31 to 60 days and 61 days or longer, and their standard payment terms. Those thresholds apply to financial years beginning on or after 6 April 2025; for earlier financial years they were £36m and £18m, with the same 250-employee test.

What does "paid outside agreed terms" mean?

The share of invoices paid later than the terms in the supplier contract. If terms are 30 days and an invoice is paid on day 45, it counts as paid outside terms, regardless of the headline average.

How often is this data updated?

Each report covers a six-month period and must be filed within 30 days of that period ending, so a company's record refreshes roughly twice a year. PaidLate re-reads the register as new reports are filed.

Is this official government data?

The underlying payment figures come from the company's own statutory filings on the gov.uk payment-practices service; company-status data comes from Companies House. PaidLate calculates trends, comparisons and summaries from those records. It does not use surveys or credit-agency scores.

How this is compiled. Built from official records only: Companies House and the gov.uk payment-practices service. The payment figures are self-reported — companies over the size threshold must file them by law and the board signs them off. No credit-agency data. The numbers are theirs; the plain-English read is ours. This is information compiled from public records under the Open Government Licence v3.0 — not a credit rating and not advice.

The 31-day comparison figure is the median across 6,185 companies with a current statutory report — every sector pooled, not an average of sector medians (how the figure is built).

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