In 2022, Nuffield Health had an annual gross income of £1.238 billion,[1] making it the second largest charity operating in the UK.

[3] On 14 January 1957, the British United Provident Association (BUPA) established the Nursing Homes Charitable Trust to acquire and build community facilities equipped for the demands of modern medicine.

In its first ten years, the Trust acquired and modernised a total of six dilapidated nursing homes and built seven new ones, together providing more than 400 beds.

In 1966, NNHT opened a new flagship hospital in London's Bryanston Square, at a cost of over half a million pounds.

[10] Nuffield Health received planning permission in 2016 to build a new hospital on a 5-acre (2 ha) site adjacent to the Manchester Royal Infirmary.