Nuffield Health

Not to be confused with Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, a hospital in Oxford.

Nuffield Health is a non-profit organisation (the UK's largest health charity) in the United Kingdom, established in 1957, which operates a range of health and wellbeing facilities including Nuffield Health Hospitals and Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing Centres.

It is independent of the National Health Service and is constituted as a registered charity. Its objects are "to advance, promote and maintain health and healthcare of all descriptions and to prevent, relieve and cure sickness and ill health of every kind."

As a private provider, fees are charged to patients. In 2007 it had an annual gross income of £540 million,^[1] making it one of the five largest charities in the UK.^[2]

It operates over 200 facilities including 30 private hospitals (29 in England and one in Scotland — Nuffield Health Glasgow Hospital),^[3] 1 joint venture private hospital (Vale Healthcare in South Wales),^[4] and 50 health clubs, employing 11,000 staff, including over 4,000 clinical staff.

See also

• List of hospitals in England
• List of hospitals in Scotland

References

1. ^ Charity Commission
2. ^ Charities Direct: ranked by income
3. ^ [1]
4. ^ [2]

External links

• Nuffield Health, Registered Charity no. 205533 at the Charity Commission
• Nuffield Health website
• Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing