About Nuffield Health
Nuffield Health is the UK’s largest healthcare charity. For the last 65 years, Nuffield Health’s experts have been working together to make the nation fitter, healthier, happier and stronger, all for the public benefit.
As a trading charity, Nuffield Health invests all its income back into its purpose to build a healthier nation. It delivers on this through its day-to-day services in 37 hospitals, 114 fitness and wellbeing centres, healthcare clinics, and over 200 workplace wellbeing services, and through a series of flagship programmes.
The Bournemouth hospital was Nuffield Health’s first hospital opened in 1957. It currently employs more than 300 local professionals. The Nuffield Health Bournemouth team treat an average of 65,000 patients each year and, during the COVID pandemic, cared for thousands of NHS patients. Nuffield Health Bournemouth continues to support the local NHS Trust as part of the wider healthcare community response to the pandemic.
Nuffield Heath has the strongest links with the NHS today that it has ever had. Medical and healthcare professionals across the organisation and beyond perceive there to be a huge opportunity for the independent and public sector to continue to work closely for the benefit of all patients.
Being more efficient across its portfolio of hospitals is a priority for Nuffield Health, particularly in response to the pandemic backlog and the growing and aging population. Diseases including cancer, heart disease, and diabetes continue to grow, with a predicted 10 million people waiting for treatment by autumn 2022 (Source; NHS Providers). With a greater need for services as people are living longer and facing increased long-term conditions, demand is highly likely to increase.
For Bournemouth, a new hospital will future proof the charity’s ability to deliver healthcare and wellbeing services that are needed by the local BCP (Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole) community and to support the wider local healthcare system, including supporting NHS.
Nuffield Health believes that the best healthcare should help prevent illness by looking after mind and body. It connects mental health support to hospital care to personal training, health assessments, GP services and physiotherapy.
The healthcare charity provides free health and wellbeing programmes in local communities across the UK by giving more people the tools they need to live a healthy life. These programmes help people understand and improve their own health, from those living with joint pain, to helping rehabilitate people experiencing the long-term effects from COVID-19. In 2021, Nuffield Health impacted the lives of 1.55 million people through its range of services and programmes.
Nuffield Health Bournemouth is looking forward to sharing its plans for a new, first-of-its-kind hospital that will allow the team to extend its support, care and provision for patients and the people of BCP. In addition, it will enable Nuffield Health to enhance its leading medical research through new technology and additional research space.
