What NIMBUSCORE LTD does

Nimbuscare Ltd is a not-for-profit NHS healthcare organisation based in York, United Kingdom, founded in 2015 and jointly owned by all 11 GP member practices in the city. It delivers integrated community health services to a registered population of more than 250,000 people across York, Scarborough, Whitby, Malton, and Selby. Service lines include NHS Extended Access appointments, Primary Care Out of Hours, NHS Health Checks, Community Diagnostics at Askham Bar, the Community Frailty Hub (launched November 2023), Initial Health Assessments for Looked After Children, GP Outreach, and a private Yorkshire Skin Clinic plus Earwax Microsuction service.

The underlying technology stack is operationally light: a website (nimbuscare.co.uk) with service pages and accessibility resources, online appointment booking via Calendly for private services, NHS App integration for prescription ordering and record viewing, and electronic medical record access for continuity of care. There are no disclosed proprietary AI, API, or SDK capabilities. Service delivery is anchored at two physical community care centres — Acomb Garth and Askham Bar — and via Out-of-Hours rotas across five NHS hospitals. Roughly 40 service agreements are co-delivered with partners including York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust, Age UK York, York CVS, York Carers Centre, City of York Council, and NHS Collaborate/BRIDGES.

The business model is primarily NHS-commissioned (subscription/contract revenue) via NHS Humber and North Yorkshire ICB and hospital trusts, supplemented by private fee-for-service revenue from the Yorkshire Skin Clinic (£95-£495 per procedure) and Earwax Microsuction (£50-£70), plus ancillary education and event space hire. There is no external venture capital, private equity, or institutional investment; ownership rests with the 11 member GP practices, all of whom serve as both governance participants and primary referral channels.

Name

NIMBUSCORE LTD

Legal name

Nimbuscare Ltd

Website

https://nimbuscare.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Nimbuscare Ltd is a not-for-profit, GP-owned NHS organisation in York delivering integrated community healthcare — extended access, out-of-hours, diagnostics, and frailty services — to over 250,000 patients across North Yorkshire.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Primary Care Services

NAICS

Offices of Physicians (62111), Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists) (621111), Ambulatory Health Care Services (621)

SIC

Services-Offices & Clinics Of Doctors Of Medicine (8011)

akta.pro primary industry

Independent Primary Care Practices (HLAFAGAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

After-Hours & Walk-In Primary Care Clinics (HLAFADAH)

Keywords

• Community healthcare services
• NHS primary care
• Urgent care services
• General practice support
• Healthcare education training

Headquarters

HQ city

Liverpool

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. NHS Commissioned Services: Core revenue from NHS contracts delivering urgent care, community services, diagnostic services, extended access appointments, and frailty care across York, Scarborough, Whitby, Malton, and Selby. Services commissioned by NHS Humber and North Yorkshire ICB and hospital trusts.
2. Private Clinical Services: Non-NHS services including Yorkshire Skin Clinic (minor skin surgery, cryotherapy) and Earwax Microsuction offered at competitive private prices. Consultation fees and procedure charges apply.
3. Education and Event Services: Healthcare education events, protected learning time training, and event space rental generating revenue through delegate fees and room hire charges.
4. Event Space Hire: Hire of event facilities at Head Office for external organisations, with revenue reinvested into healthcare and community services as a not-for-profit organisation.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Nimbuscare is a not-for-profit, GP-owned federation delivering NHS-commissioned healthcare services in York and North Yorkshire, including Primary Care Out of Hours, Extended Access appointments, the Community Frailty Hub, community diagnostics, NHS Health Checks, and Initial Health Assessments for Looked After Children. It also offers private clinical services through the Yorkshire Skin Clinic and Earwax Microsuction, plus healthcare education, training events, and event space hire, all delivered through owned community care centres (Acomb Garth) and the Askham Bar Community Diagnostic Centre.

Product overview

Nimbuscare Ltd is a not-for-profit NHS organisation based in York, owned by 11 local GP practices, that delivers a platform of integrated healthcare services. The offering is structured as multiple distinct service lines rather than a single unified product: Core NHS services include Blood Testing, Community Frailty Hub, Extended Access appointments, GP Appointments and Support, GP Outreach Service, Initial Health Assessment for Looked After Children, NHS Health Checks, and Primary Care Out of Hours. Private paid services include The Yorkshire Skin Clinic (minor skin surgery) and Earwax Removal via Microsuction. Education services encompass Healthcare Education by Nimbuscare (training events, CPD) and Event Space hire. Two physical facilities (Acomb Garth Community Care Centre and Askham Bar Community Diagnostic Centre) serve as delivery hubs. Caring for more than 250,000 people, the organisation coordinates care between GP practices, hospitals, and community services to provide seamless patient journeys.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• The Yorkshire Skin Clinic by Nimbuscare: A private skin clinic offering affordable, professional minor surgical skin treatments including mole removal, skin tag removal, cyst/lipoma removal, and wart/verruca treatment.

Products and services

• Primary Care Out of Hours Out-of-hours GP service for patients requiring care when GP practices are closed, available Monday to Sunday 18:00-08:00 and Bank Holidays at York Hospital, Scarborough Hospital, Malton Hospital, Selby Hospital, Whitby Hospital, and Acomb Garth Community Care Centre. Commissioned by NHS Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust and others.
• Extended Access Extension of general practice offering appointments in evenings and weekends, providing a range of clinicians for GP appointments, blood clinics, cervical screening, women's health, and long-term condition reviews at Acomb Garth Community Care Centre and Whitby Community Hospital.
• Community Frailty Hub Integrated multidisciplinary initiative established in November 2023 to proactively manage frailty within the community, providing frailty prevention, crisis response, and discharge support to reduce hospital admissions and improve quality of life for approximately 3,000 frail individuals in York.
• NHS Health Checks Health check-ups for adults aged 40-74 designed to spot early signs of stroke, kidney disease, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and dementia, available at Acomb Garth Community Care Centre and coordinated through GP practices.
• Initial Health Assessment for Looked After Children Comprehensive medical assessment conducted by doctors and paediatric nurses covering physical health, mental well-being, and developmental milestones for looked after children, available at Acomb Garth Community Care Centre and Lawrence House, Scarborough.
• GP Appointments and Support Support services for GP practices including out-of-hours appointments, emergency support service (OPEL) across York for times of severe pressure, and urgent care services in partnership with the Acute Hospital Trust.
• GP Outreach Service Service for patients from underrepresented backgrounds that do not attend their registered GP practice or are not registered with a GP, operating on Wednesdays via Changing Lives services.
• Askham Bar Community Diagnostic Centre Community diagnostic centre operated in partnership with York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, offering blood testing, spirometry, FeNo, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, and 12-lead ECG services to help speed up detection of serious illnesses and reduce patient waiting times.
• Acomb Garth Community Care Centre Community care centre delivering a range of health and wellbeing services, also housing partners including Panthera clinical trials, York & Scarborough Teaching Hospital retinal screening and community midwives, City of York Council health trainers, and Tees, Esk, Wear and Valleys talking therapies.
• The Yorkshire Skin Clinic by Nimbuscare Private GP-led skin clinic offering affordable minor surgical skin treatments including mole removal, skin tag removal, cyst and lipoma removal, and wart/verruca treatment, with a £95 non-refundable consultation fee deducted from procedure cost.
• Earwax Removal (Microsuction) Private ear wax removal service using microsuction technique, available at Acomb Garth Community Care Centre for £50 for both ears, with home visits offered within a 15-mile radius of York at £70 for both ears.
• Blood Testing (Phlebotomy) Blood testing service operating by appointment only at Askham Bar Community Diagnostic Centre, available Monday to Friday 8:00-18:00 and Saturday 8:00-12:30 as part of the NHS community diagnostics pathway.
• Education by Nimbuscare Healthcare education and training services including protected learning time events, CPD events, BLS and anaphylaxis training, Oliver McGowan tier 2 training, non-medical prescribing study days, heart failure nurse forums, and event space hire for healthcare professionals.
• Event Space Hire Hireable event facilities at Nimbuscare Head Office offering two large event spaces accommodating up to 50 delegates and three smaller meeting rooms, with AV equipment, hybrid-ready capability, and full event facilitation support.

Quantifiable outcome

• Supports approximately 3,000 high-risk frail patients across York
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers14 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

16 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPrimary strategic partnership for Community Diagnostic Centre at Askham Bar, helping speed up detection of serious illnesses and reducing waiting times. Nimbuscare provides blood testing, Spirometry, FeNo, 12 Lead ECG, and Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring. Trust also commissions Nimbuscare to provide Out of Hours GP services and hosts services at Acomb Garth (Retinal Screening, Community Midwives, Paediatric Dietetics).
• Age UK (York)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAge UK support workers are integrated into the Community Frailty Hub team, contributing to the Integrated Discharge Support Team that helps people return home safely after hospital stays.
• York CVScoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerYork CVS Social Prescribers are part of the Integrated Discharge Support Team within the Community Frailty Hub, supporting safe and timely hospital discharge.
• York Carers CentrecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerYork Carers Centre support workers collaborate with the Frailty Discharge team to provide comprehensive support for carers during hospital discharge processes.
• North Yorkshire SportcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNorth Yorkshire Sport personal therapists are integrated into the Community Frailty Hub team, providing rehabilitation and exercise support for frail patients. Also part of Integrated Discharge Support Team.
• Harrogate District NHS Foundation TrustminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorTrust refers patients to Nimbuscare for Initial Health Assessment for Looked After Children service, with appointments available at Lawrence House Scarborough.
• Humber Teaching NHS Foundation TrustcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCommissioned by Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust to provide Out of Hours GP service for Whitby area. Nimbuscare delivers OOH care on behalf of the Trust at Whitby Community Hospital.
• BRIDGES Group (Humber Coast and Vale)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBRIDGES (Building Relationships through Inclusivity to Develop Stakeholder Groups to Lead Emerging Systems) is part of NHS Collaborate, a national supportive community of NHS Primary Care leaders. Comprises around 80 healthcare professionals across clinical and non-clinical roles. Created the #HumansOfGeneralPractice campaign. Nimbuscare participates in leadership collaboration, peer support, and system development initiatives.
• Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care PartnershipcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSystem-level partnership for healthcare planning and delivery across the region. Nimbuscare collaborates on Oliver McGowan Tier 2 Training on behalf of the Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Autism Sector Collaborative.
• City of York CouncilcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCity of York Council funds NHS Health Checks and LARC services which Nimbuscare delivers. Health Trainer services located at Acomb Garth Community Care Centre. Also collaborates on Community Frailty Hub bringing health and social care professionals together.
• Humber Health PartnershipminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAAA Screening Service provided at Acomb Garth Community Care Centre as part of partnership arrangement.
• Tees, Esk, Wear and Valleys NHS Foundation TrustminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorTalking Therapies services located at Acomb Garth Community Care Centre, bringing mental health services into community settings.
• PantheraminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorPanthera Clinical Trials operates from Acomb Garth Community Care Centre, providing research and clinical trial opportunities for local patients.
• Yorkshire Health SolutionsminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorPrivate Ultrasound services available at Acomb Garth Community Care Centre, complementing NHS diagnostic services.
• Department for Work and PensionsminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorPatience Advisory Service provided at Acomb Garth Community Care Centre, supporting patients with benefit-related health assessments.
• NHS CollaboratecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational supportive community of leaders across NHS Primary Care. BRIDGES Group is part of NHS Collaborate, connecting Nimbuscare with peer organisations for leadership development, system change collaboration, and shared learning.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Regional players

• Federation of Heath Park: GP federation in South East England providing collaborative primary care services to member practices. Comparable as a GP-led federation delivering shared community/extended services.

Direct peers

• Sussex Primary Care: GP federation in Sussex delivering extended access, urgent care and community services to a large registered population. Structurally analogous to Nimbuscare as a GP-collaborative integrated primary care provider.
• City Health Care Partnership (CHCP): Community Interest Company providing integrated community health, primary care, urgent care and social prescribing services in Hull and East Yorkshire. Closely comparable as a non-profit, integrated community/primary care provider in Northern England.
• Modality Partnership: Large UK GP super-partnership operating as a federated primary care provider across multiple regions. Structurally comparable to Nimbuscare as a collaborative of GP practices delivering extended primary care and community services at scale.
• Operose Health: One of the largest NHS primary care providers in England, running hundreds of GP practices and community services. Comparable as a scaled primary care delivery organisation delivering NHS-commissioned services to large populations.
• AT Medics (formerly ATMG): Large NHS primary care provider operating numerous GP practices across London with extended access and community service offerings. Comparable as a scaled federated primary care provider.

Broad incumbents

• Totally plc: UK healthcare provider delivering urgent care, NHS 111, home health and primary care services across multiple regions. Comparable as a multi-region integrated urgent care/primary care provider.
• HCRG Care Group (formerly Virgin Care): Large independent provider of NHS community health, urgent care, and primary care services across England. Comparable as an integrated community/primary care provider delivering NHS contracts at regional scale.
• Practice Plus Group: UK independent provider of NHS primary care, urgent care, diagnostics, and secondary care. Comparable as a commercial independent-sector primary/community care provider across multiple regions.

Emerging players

• Doccla: Tech-enabled virtual ward and remote patient monitoring provider working with NHS partners. Partially comparable as a digital health enabler addressing community-based care and hospital admission avoidance — directly relevant to Nimbuscare's Frailty Hub strategy.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles13 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

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