NUFFIELD HEALTH
Operating as a registered trading charity, Nuffield Health provides independent healthcare services across the UK through a nationwide network of private hospitals, medical clinics, and fitness and wellbeing centres.
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Cash
£12m
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£1.1bn
Equity attributable
Employees
18,215
Average over period
Profit before tax
-£64m
Period ending 2023-12-31
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Our short-form breakdown of NUFFIELD HEALTH's latest filing
Nuffield Health returned to an operating profit this year, but a massive £70m finance bill dragged the hospital and gym group into an even deeper net loss. Meanwhile, the directors' pay pot more than doubled. 🏥📉
Net assets
1-year trend · vs Health Care median
Accounts
1-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £1,358,100,000 | — | |
| Operating profit | -£17,700,000 | — | |
| Profit before tax | -£64,000,000 | — | |
| Net profit | -£64,000,000 | — | |
| Cash | £12,000,000 | — | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £1,667,800,000 | — | |
| Net assets | £1,081,200,000 | — | |
| Equity | £1,081,200,000 | — | |
| Average employees | 18,215 | — | |
| Wages | £438,800,000 | — | |
| Directors' remuneration | £3,800,000 | — |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. The Δ column is the change from the prior filed period as a percentage of |prior|; lines a company doesn't report show —. Year-on-year comparison hidden: this filing's period length differs materially from the prior year. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -1.3% | |
| Net margin | -4.7% | |
| Return on capital employed | -1.1% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 43.3% | |
| Current ratio | 0.66x | |
| Interest cover | -0.38x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Name history
Renamed 3 times since incorporation
- NUFFIELD HEALTH 2008-05-08 → present
- NUFFIELD HOSPITALS 2008-05-08 → 2008-05-08
- NUFFIELD HOSPITALS 2003-09-01 → 2008-05-08
- NUFFIELD NURSING HOMES TRUST 1957-01-14 → 2003-09-01
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Deloitte LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“On this basis, the Trustees have a reasonable expectation that the Group has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for at least 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements. The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis.”
Group structure
- NUFFIELD HEALTH · parent
- ISC Leasing (Ipswich) Ltd 100%
- Aspen Healthcare Ltd 100%
- Mythbreaker Ltd 100%
- Nuffield Health Care Ltd 100%
- Edinburgh Medical Services Ltd 100%
- Nuffield Health Scottish Limited Partnership (NHSLP) 85%
Significant events
- “We withdrew our emotional wellbeing service, and sold the lease of Nuffield Health at St Bartholomew's Hospital back to Barts Health NHS Trust.”
- “144 new advanced imaging systems have been installed in our hospitals.”
- “Subsequent to the year-end, the Group concluded the refinancing of its core banking facilities.”
- “700m Images migrated to a new cloud-based environment.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
10 active · 45 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| THOMSON, Iben | Secretary | 2022-11-30 | — | — |
| BARRELL, Sam, Dr | Director | 2026-01-01 | Feb 1968 | British |
| DODD, Dominic | Director | 2025-11-26 | Aug 1967 | British |
| FIGGIS, Patrick Adam Fernesley | Director | 2018-06-27 | Nov 1957 | British |
| KILLEN, Tracey Anne | Director | 2023-07-26 | Apr 1961 | British |
| MACDONALD, Natalie-Jane Anne, Dr | Director | 2017-01-27 | Jun 1962 | Scottish |
| ROBB, Elizabeth Jane | Director | 2022-10-18 | Sep 1953 | British |
| ROCHFORD, Lee | Director | 2023-07-26 | Jan 1967 | British |
| STANSFELD, Mark Andrew | Director | 2021-10-01 | Mar 1960 | British |
| WHITWORTH, Karen Tracy | Director | 2023-09-01 | Aug 1969 | British |
Show 45 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLAZEY, Jennifer Anne | Secretary | 2000-06-01 | 2001-05-10 |
| BRIERLEY, Richard Paul | Secretary | 2001-05-10 | 2002-01-04 |
| HOLBEN, David George | Secretary | 2005-04-26 | 2011-09-01 |
| HOLMES, Olivia Jacqueline | Secretary | 2002-01-05 | 2002-05-24 |
| JONES, John Edward | Secretary | 2004-07-30 | 2005-04-01 |
| LEADER, Victor Colin | Secretary | — | 2000-06-01 |
| NEWMAN, Toby | Secretary | 2017-02-28 | 2022-11-30 |
| SPEVACK, Tracey Jane | Secretary | 2002-05-24 | 2004-07-30 |
| TALBUTT, Luke, Mr. | Secretary | 2011-09-01 | 2017-02-28 |
| ADEBOWALE, Victor Olufemi, Lord | Director | 2019-06-26 | 2022-10-18 |
| AXTON, Henry Stuart | Director | — | 1993-05-19 |
| BAJWA, Junaid Azmat, Dr | Director | 2021-09-29 | 2025-07-30 |
| BAKER WILBRAHAM, Richard | Director | — | 2001-04-30 |
| BOURNE, Christopher John | Director | — | 1996-05-22 |
| BRYANT, Martin Warwick | Director | 2013-06-01 | 2023-07-26 |
| BUDD, David Charles | Director | 2008-06-25 | 2009-09-24 |
| BUTLER, Edmond Marshal | Director | — | 1993-05-19 |
| CASSONI, Maria Luisa | Director | 2011-11-01 | 2012-12-14 |
| DRISCOLL, Fiona Elizabeth | Director | 2010-01-01 | 2019-06-26 |
| EVANDER, Lars Peter | Director | 2001-03-28 | 2010-02-28 |
| EVANS, John Sandford | Director | — | 2010-06-23 |
| FORESTER, The Lady | Director | 1996-06-04 | 2003-03-27 |
| GARDNER, Douglas Frank | Director | 1995-05-25 | 2009-11-30 |
| GLENARTHUR, Simon Mark, Lord | Director | 2000-12-13 | 2009-12-31 |
| HARDY, Russell Stephen Mons | Director | 2010-01-01 | 2020-06-30 |
| HOLT, Denise Mary, Dame | Director | 2013-06-01 | 2018-07-25 |
| HOMER, Linda Margaret, Dame | Director | 2019-02-01 | 2022-10-18 |
| HUNT, Nicholas, Sir | Director | 1995-03-15 | 2001-04-30 |
| JONES, John Stephen Major | Director | 1993-01-06 | 1995-05-24 |
| LANE OF HORSELL, Peter Stewart, Lord | Director | — | 1996-05-22 |
| LISTER, David William | Director | 2014-02-01 | 2023-07-26 |
| MASLIN, Stephen | Director | 2017-07-28 | 2025-07-30 |
| MCCAUSLAND, Neil William | Director | 2010-01-01 | 2011-01-25 |
| MCCRACKEN, Philip Guy | Director | 2010-01-01 | 2019-06-26 |
| MOODY STUART, Mark, Sir | Director | 2001-08-01 | 2008-04-22 |
| ROWELL, Oliver John | Director | — | 2001-04-30 |
| SACHDEV, Nilesh | Director | 2018-11-23 | 2024-07-31 |
| SECCOMBE, Joan Ann Deiziel, Baroness | Director | — | 2001-04-30 |
| SHAW, Joanne Mary | Director | 2011-07-27 | 2018-07-25 |
| SMITH, Michael John | Director | 2003-10-01 | 2012-06-21 |
| STEVENS, Meriza, Lady | Director | 1993-01-06 | 1994-09-28 |
| TETLEY, Christopher Michael | Director | 2001-02-01 | 2010-01-31 |
| TETLEY, Christopher Michael | Director | 1993-06-01 | 1997-02-26 |
| WESSON, Jane Louise | Director | 2005-04-01 | 2014-03-31 |
| WILSON, James Ninian Reid | Director | — | 1996-12-18 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 379 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-08-04 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2025-08-04 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2026-05-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-05-12 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2026-01-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-11-28 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-08-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-08-04 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-08-04 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2025-07-31 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-31 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-06-08 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with new address | |
| 2025-05-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-09-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-08-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-05-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-09-20 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-08-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-07-28 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-07-28 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-07-27 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 8
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.