Health & Wellbeing Sport & Physical Activity 2025
Nuffield Health

Social Impact Report 2025

Nuffield Health is the UK's largest healthcare charity, providing free prescribed movement programmes for people with long-term conditions. In 2025, 25,334 people benefited from free social impact programmes — 24% living with lower resources — generating £166m in social value (up 30% on 2024). Key programmes include: Joint Pain (14,852 participants, 35% average pain improvement); Long COVID Rehabilitation (714 participants, 34% breathlessness improvement); Cancer Activity (70 participants, prostate cancer, launched 2025); and free outdoor sessions (34,728 via Swing Fit). 25,000+ GP appointments and 81,000+ sick days were avoided.

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Joint Pain Programme (6-month supervised exercise + free gym membership, 110 centres); Long COVID Rehabilitation (12-week, face-to-face and remote); Long-Term Conditions Programme (launched 2025 across 10 R&D sites, expanding to 80+ centres in 2026); Cancer Activity Programme (prostate cancer, launched 2025, 10 centres); Swing Fit outdoor exercise (34,728 free sessions in London parks); Access Sport Young Leaders (5,491 disabled/disadvantaged young people, Greater Manchester); Moving Medicine website (evidence-based guidance) Custom geography from upload: UK-wide (110 fitness and wellbeing centres, 37 hospitals)

📊Key Metrics

25,334 people benefited from free social impact programmes in 2025; 24% living with lower resources; £166m social value generated — up 30% on 2024 Key Metric 1
Joint Pain Programme: 14,852 participants; 35% average improvement in joint pain; 37% improvement in joint function; 50,000+ supported since programme began Key Metric 2
25,000+ GP appointments avoided per year; 81,000+ sick days prevented per year; 16,400 carer days freed per year; 27% of Long COVID participants returned to work by week 12 Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • Long-Term Conditions Programme built on Sheffield Hallam University STAMINA clinical trial partnership; Cancer Activity Programme embeds structured exercise into NHS prostate cancer treatment pathways; Manchester Metropolitan University partnership delivering 50,000 participant places over 3 years
  • 43% of Long COVID participants now access the programme remotely; Access Sport collaboration addressing needs of 30,000+ disabled and disadvantaged young people in Greater Manchester; Moving Medicine website launched in partnership with Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine UK
  • Social value framework developed with Frontier Economics since 2018; £79.9m value from improved health outcomes; £66.8m from reduced caring burden; £18.2m from increased workforce productivity; £1.2m from reduced NHS demand; Long-Term Conditions Programme expanding to 80+ sites in 2026

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UK-Wide

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