Our Health and International Relations Monitor project, supported by the Health Foundation, tracks issues that are important for the delivery of health and care in the UK to understand how our...

Thea Stein has been appointed as the new Chief Executive of the Nuffield Trust.

Dr Becks Fisher has been appointed as the new Director of Research and Policy at the Nuffield Trust.

Campaign celebrates nursing as varied and fulfilling, but union says only higher pay will make lasting difference

For every five nurse training places, only three full-time nurses join the NHS. The rate of dropouts in the staffing pipeline from student to early-career clinician is worryingly high, with signifi...

Professor Marshall will succeed Andy McKeon CBE in September 2022 when he steps down after six years as Nuffield Trust chair.

The Nuffield Trust report warns that financial pressures risk undermining the health service's strengths.

Health secretary does not reveal how big rise will be or if extra funding will be allocated to NHS to cover the cost

Changing our services so that more care is provided in community settings and people can leave hospital when they are fit for discharge has been an explicit policy aim for decades. Other, similar...

Dr Kevin Fong gets past the myths to reveal why the NHS is under such pressures.

BBC Wales' health correspondent Owain Clarke reports on what the Nuffield Trust analysis of the Welsh NHS found.

Nigel Edwards reflects on his nine years at the Nuffield Trust and announces his intention to stand down as Chief Executive later this year.

With emergency departments beyond capacity throughout the country, some hospitals have been trialling an approach of moving a set number of patients into inpatient wards each hour, regardless of bed...

For this Friday FAQs we spoke to Thea Stein, the new Chief Executive of the Nuffield Trust.

The integration of health and social care has been a long-standing policy priority in each country of the UK. However, there is limited evidence these policies are delivering the results expected of...

NHS-funded dental services in England are in near-terminal decline: nearly six million fewer courses of NHS dental treatment were provided last year than in the pre-pandemic year; funding in 2021/22...

This research draws on an extensive literature review to assess the realism of the narrative that moving care out of hospital will save money. It explores five key areas: elective care, urgent and...

Long read: The number of people attending emergency departments during the coronavirus outbreak has been the subject of much debate. Louella Vaughan looks at the different factors that might have...

The vital work of the NHS would be impossible without the contribution of a broad range of people, and a diverse and inclusive workforce ensures better care for patients. Yet despite considerable...

For every five nurse training places, only three full-time nurses join the NHS. The rate of dropouts in the staffing pipeline from student to early-career clinician is worryingly high, with signifi...

With emergency departments beyond capacity throughout the country, some hospitals have been trialling an approach of moving a set number of patients into inpatient wards each hour, regardless of bed...

MPs this week have been debating the new Health and Care Bill, with some expressing concerns that it could lead to ‘privatising’ the NHS. Mark Dayan and Helen Buckingham take a closer look at this...

The latest instalment from our project monitoring the effects of the UK's exit from the EU on our health care system finds the clearest evidence yet that Brexit and its changing relationships with...

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted ethnic disparities in health care and outcomes in England, but data on the ethnicities of patients remains poor. This report looks at the quality and consistency...

Childhood obesity in England is concerningly widespread, with no notable improvements in recent years. However, our understanding of what could be driving these trends and the part environmental...

We've appointed four new trustees to our board, bringing a range and depth of experience from the highest levels in medicine, research, NHS management, nursing and academia.

It has become commonplace to argue that the NHS is a ‘bottomless pit’ consuming greater amounts from the public purse than other countries. In the first in a new commentary series, Nigel Edwards...

The equivalent of 75,000 staff are lost to illness, as the absence rate jumps 29% since before the pandemic.

Exclusive FactCheck analysis lays bare the state of England's health system.

Smaller hospitals are struggling with workforce shortages, spiralling costs and increasingly complex models of care for acutely ill patients. This major new report outlines a set of radical new...

Billy Palmer and Lucina Rolewicz draw on published data to explore the trends in, reasons for, and impact of sickness absence in the NHS. The briefing primarily focuses on hospital and community...

With as many as 1.2 million autistic people in England, as well as up to 2.2 million people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), providing the right support is no small ask. Jessica...

Nurses have voted to strike for the first time in the Royal College of Nursing’s history – a decision that was triggered by this year’s pay settlement for Agenda for Change staff. In this chart, Mark...

John Appleby unpicks the data on deaths from causes other than covid-19 Concerns are being raised that one possible consequence of efforts to contain covid-19 could be an increase in deaths from...

The latest instalment from our project monitoring the effects of the UK's exit from the EU on our health care system finds the clearest evidence yet that Brexit and its changing relationships with...

Rapid evaluation should not be mistaken for ‘quick and dirty’ research, so what does it mean?

Does a child's socioeconomic background affect rates of admissions to hospital for common conditions such as asthma, diabetes or epilepsy?

It is well known that the halt in planned hospital care during the pandemic accelerated growing waiting lists, and that waits for routine care now stand at record-breaking levels. But how did the...

Pamela Enderby can almost certainly lay claim to being a key catalyst to one of the most radical overhauls in the NHS pay system since the inception of the service. In 1986, as then head of the…

With an election approaching, the Nuffield Trust's briefing series challenges the NHS and social care manifesto commitments of UK political parties in advance of the vote. The second in our series...

For this edition of Friday FAQs, we spoke to Dr Farzana Hussain. She is a partner at The Project Surgery in Plaistow, east London and the current GP of the Year.

This briefing reveals the true underlying state of the NHS’s finances today, and outlines prospects for the next three to four years.