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A new survey reveals that 37% of UK adults are now more concerned about their mental health because of COVID-19, and 15% admit to having done no exercise at all in the last year.

Updated: Monday 25 April 2022

Published: Monday 25 April 2022

International Women’s Day (8th March) is a chance for people all over the world to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women, increasing visibility and raising awareness about gender inequality across the world.

Updated: Wednesday 9 March 2022

Published: Sunday 6 March 2022

International Women’s Day (8th March) is a chance for people all over the world to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women, increasing visibility and raising awareness about gender inequality across the world.

Updated: Tuesday 8 March 2022

Published: Tuesday 8 March 2022

International Women’s Day (8th March) is a chance for people all over the world to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women, increasing visibility and raising awareness about gender inequality across the world.

Updated: Monday 7 March 2022

Published: Monday 7 March 2022

International Women’s Day (8th March) is a chance for people all over the world to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women, increasing visibility and raising awareness about gender inequality across the world.

Updated: Friday 4 March 2022

Published: Friday 4 March 2022

Sport inclusion charity Access Sport has joined forces with the UK’s largest healthcare charity, Nuffield Health, in an innovative new project to tackle stark health inequalities in Greater Manchester. This ground-breaking project will combine resources and expertise to tackle the unmet needs of 15,000 disadvantaged local young people and their families in the next two years.

Updated: Thursday 3 March 2022

Published: Thursday 3 March 2022

Careology and Nuffield Health have partnered in a pilot to provide patients undergoing cancer treatment with support through digital cancer care technology.

Updated: Wednesday 2 March 2022

Published: Wednesday 2 March 2022

Nuffield Health, the UK’s largest healthcare charity, has appointed Alison McCourt CBE ARRC as its new Clinical Services Director, providing leadership to clinical teams across the Charity’s hospitals, fitness and wellbeing centres, healthcare clinics, and workplace wellbeing services.

Updated: Thursday 17 February 2022

Published: Thursday 17 February 2022

Nuffield Health has announced it is investing £50,000 as platinum partners into the Ingenuity Programme, which supports start-ups to directly address the UK’s social and environmental challenges to drive change in local communities.

Updated: Wednesday 9 February 2022

Published: Wednesday 9 February 2022

Despite one in four of us experiencing a mental health problem in any given year, there is still stigma surrounding mental health. In a survey conducted by Nuffield Health, the UK’s largest healthcare charity, it found that nearly a fifth of people (16%) would be too embarrassed or ashamed to ask for help with any mental health problems they experienced while one in ten (13%) still worry about being judged or discriminated against. This ‘Time to Talk’ Day, Nuffield Health is encouraging people to start conversations about their mental health.

Updated: Thursday 3 February 2022

Published: Thursday 3 February 2022

Nuffield Health Chichester Hospital, part of the wider Nuffield Health Charity, has achieved the highest possible rating of excellence by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) following an inspection in October 2021. The hospital was visited by a CQC team of inspectors and regulation specialists with healthcare expertise who scrutinised all areas of the hospital’s practice, defining it as an ‘Outstanding’ hospital. The Hospital joins Nuffield Health’s Cambridge, Leeds and Tees hospitals in being awarded ‘Outstanding’ CQC ratings.

Updated: Tuesday 14 December 2021

Published: Tuesday 14 December 2021

Nuffield Health, the UK’s largest healthcare charity, has today announced Dr Junaid Bajwa and Mark Stansfeld have joined its Board of Governors as governors with effect from the start of October.

Updated: Monday 25 October 2021

Published: Monday 25 October 2021

During the pandemic, the learnings from our university programme were cascaded from hospitals, through clinical services and into fitness and wellbeing facilities, helping to keep everyone safe.

Updated: Sunday 17 October 2021

Published: Sunday 17 October 2021

New data released today from Nuffield Health’s Healthier Nation Index has revealed the extent of concern families have about the state of their loved one’s physical and mental health.

Updated: Monday 27 September 2021

Published: Friday 24 September 2021

Close to 1 million people in the UK were experiencing self-reported long COVID, with 634,000 people reporting that their ability to undertake their day-to-day activities had been ‘limited a lot’. We held a panel discussion to provide clinical insights into the impact of long COVID on employees and guidance on how organisations can support employee recovery.

Updated: Friday 3 September 2021

Published: Friday 3 September 2021

Our rhubarb crumble is simple to make, and rhubarb provides a good source of fibre and contains vitamin C and calcium.

Updated: Wednesday 30 June 2021

Published: Monday 7 September 2015

As we wait to hear how Britain will be eased out of lockdown, it seems the constraints on our day to lives have led to some unexpected benefits, with three quarters of Brits (76%) taking up at least one new form of exercise since lockdown began.

Updated: Monday 14 June 2021

Published: Sunday 10 May 2020

New partnership will enable Nuffield Health to scale its occupational health offering

Updated: Tuesday 25 May 2021

Published: Thursday 16 January 2020

New data released today by Nuffield Health reveals those who have regular fitness checks are more likely to achieve health goals such as reducing cholesterol, blood pressure and body mass index. The study looked at data from adult gym members who had two health check-ups over a 12 month period and compared them to those who had three.

Updated: Tuesday 25 May 2021

Published: Wednesday 7 September 2016

Want strong, lean legs? Look no further. Build strength and tone with this leg-focused superset workout.

Updated: Tuesday 25 May 2021

Published: Wednesday 14 October 2015