Nuffield Health

Analysis

Nuffield Health is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Epsom. It was registered in September 1962, 64 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 00576970). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Nuffield Health reported income of £1.48bn and spending of £1.54bn, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £995.6m to £1.48bn (+49%), an average of +10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 24%. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Nuffield Health sits at the 100th percentile: it is one of the largest 1% in its cause. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 100th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Save the Children International (£955.4m), Cancer Research UK (£734.8m) and Lloyd's Register Foundation (£691.7m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 99%. Charitable activities took 98% of spending and raising funds 0.8%. It employed 18,566 people.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.