Synergy Health (UK) Limited
Registered name: SYNERGY HEALTH (UK) LIMITED
Part of Steris Public Limited Company groupSynergy Health (UK) Limited made £105m revenue and £7m profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Synergy Health (UK) Limited’s revenue grew 21% to £105m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £7m profit and 1,311 employees. The company is classified under “other manufacturing” and is based in Basingstoke; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Basingstoke, South East
- Age
- 56 yrs · since 1970
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently. From the filing: “The Company's immediate parent undertaking is Synergy Health Holdings Limited. The registered office”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £77.2m | £87.2m | £105m |
| Cost of sales | £53.9m | £54.9m | £63.4m |
| Gross profit | £23.2m | £32.4m | £41.7m |
| Operating profit | −£15m | −£1.7m | £1.9m |
| Profit before tax | −£11m | £3.1m | £9.1m |
| Profit after tax | −£10.3m | £2.2m | £7m |
| Profit (best available) | −£10.3m | £2.2m | £7m |
| Staff costs | £43.3m | £45.5m | £52.5m |
| Employees (average) | 1,132 | 1,176 | 1,311 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | −13.3% | 2.5% | 6.7% |
| Gross margin | 30.1% | 37.1% | 39.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £68.2k | £74.2k | £80.2k |
| Profit per employee | −£9.1k | £1.9k | £5.4k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲13.1% | ▲20.5% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▲221% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲3.9% | ▲11.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £59k | £79k | £72k |
| Net assets | £146m | £147m | £155m |
| Fixed assets | £56.8m | £52.1m | £57.3m |
| Current assets | £109m | £114m | £124m |
| Debtors | £14.6m | £15.7m | £24.5m |
| Deferred income | £3.4m | £3.4m | £4m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 6.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 39.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £80.2k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £5.4k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 54.5%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 3.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 23.3%
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- ▲5%
- Now £155m
- Cash at bank
- ▼9%
- Now £72k
- Headcount
- ▲11%
- Now 1,311
- Deferred income
- ▲18%
- Now £4m
- Fixed assets
- ▲10%
- Now £57.3m
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Steris Public Limited Company (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Steris Limited75–100%
- Synergy Health Limited75–100%
- Synergy Health Holdings Limited75–100%
- Synergy Health (UK) Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (3)
- Steris Ims LimitedRev. £9.1m · Profit −£5.5m
- Diagmed Healthcare LimitedRev. £0 · Profit £646k
- Vernon-Carus LimitedRev. £0 · Profit £96.1k
Sister companies (5)
- Synergy Health Sterilisation UK LimitedRev. £55.4m · Profit £16.6m
- Synergy Health Systems LimitedRev. £9.3m · Profit £381k
- Harwell Dosimeters LimitedRev. £5.4m · Profit £2.5m
- Medisafe Holdings LtdRev. £0 · Profit £10m
- Shiloh LimitedRev. £0 · Profit −£466k
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £7m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Nov 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 13 Oct 2026
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