Bellevue Healthcare Trust plc has announced that it has purchased 225,979 of its ordinary shares of 1 penny each on the London Stock Exchange through J.P. Morgan Securities plc. The average price paid per share was 134.42p. The company intends to hold the purchased shares in treasury. Following this transaction, the company now holds 10,476,707 of its ordinary shares in treasury and has 545,938,523 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares). The company's LEI is 213800HQ3J3H9YF2UI82. For further information, enquiries can be made to Bellevue Asset Management (UK) Ltd. and J.P. Morgan Cazenove.