Directorate Change

17 July 2012

                        WORLDWIDE HEALTHCARE TRUST PLC                         

                                (the "Company")                                

Notification of Board changes and Directors' details

The Company hereby announces that Professor Duncan Geddes retired as a
non-executive Director of the Company on 17 July 2012.

There is no further information to be disclosed under Listing Rule 9.6.11R to
9.6.15G.

- ENDS-

For further information please contact:

Mark Pope                                                                      

Frostrow Capital LLP

020 3 008 4913

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