The Nuffield Trust is an independent health think tank. We aim to improve the quality of health care in the UK by providing evidence-based research and policy analysis and informing and generating ...

With plenty of speculation already about what next week’s Budget will mean for the NHS, Sally Gainsbury describes the numbers ...

With all eyes on this week’s budget announcement, will social care be overlooked again? Natasha Curry and Camille Oung ...

Responding to the Care Quality Commission’s latest State of Care Report, The state of health care and adult social care in ...

New Nuffield Trust analysis by Sally Gainsbury shows that the NHS in England is heading for an unfunded overspend of £4.8bn ...

In his first speech as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Wes Streeting declared that "the NHS is broken". Here we collect some of our essential reading to diagnose and shape the change ...

After a public consultation was launched last week on the health service’s new 10-year-plan, Mark Dayan looks at what we can learn from previous NHS plans – as well as from other countries – to help ...

Excessive alcohol consumption can have harmful health consequences in the short term but also in the long term, through conditions such as liver disease, stroke and some cancers. Alcohol-related ...

An 'out of area placement' (OAP) occurs when a person with acute mental health needs who requires inpatient care is admitted to a unit that does not form part of the usual local network of services.

Mortality rates (the number of people who die each year per 100,000 population) give a general measure of the health of a population. They are affected by the quality of health care, but also by a ...

Mark Dayan is Brexit Programme Lead at the Nuffield Trust, working on the implications of leaving the European Union and of trade agreements for the NHS, life sciences and social care. Mark has also ...

High-quality end of life care is important to ensure people approaching the end of life, and their family and carers, have access to appropriate treatment and support during a vulnerable and difficult ...