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.