Ruth Thorlby is a senior fellow in health policy. Her research interests include NHS reform, GP commissioning, accountability, international comparisons and health inequalities. Before joining the Nuffield Trust she was a senior fellow at The King’s Fund, where her publications included two major reviews of NHS performance as well as a range of briefing and research papers.

She was a 2008-2009 Harkness Fellow, based at Harvard Medical School, where she researched how US physicians and health care organisations understood and tackled racial inequalities in the quality of health services.

Ruth has an MSc in Social Policy from the London School of Economics. Before moving into health policy research, Ruth was a broadcast journalist, working for BBC World Service and BBC News and Current Affairs, including Panorama.

Published work

  1. Competition and integration

    20 January 2012
    Nuffield Trust

  2. Managing health reform through an economic downturn

    20 October 2011
    Nuffield Trust

  3. Liberalising the health care market: the new government's ambition for the English NHS

    01 July 2011
    International Journal of Health Services

  4. How Health Care Organizations Are Using Data on Patients’ Race and Ethnicity to Improve Quality of Care

    15 June 2011
    The Milbank Quarterly

  5. Reflections on the 2011 Annual Health Strategy Summit

    01 May 2011
    Nuffield Trust

  6. GP commissioning: insights from medical groups in the United States

    19 January 2011
    Nuffield Trust

  7. Responses of Massachusetts hospitals to a state mandate to collect race, ethnicity and language data from patients: a qualitative study

    31 December 2010
    BMC Health Services Research

  8. Giving GPs budgets for commissioning: what needs to be done?

    23 June 2010
    Nuffield Trust

  9. A high performing NHS? A review of the evidence 1997-2010

    11 April 2010
    The King's Fund

  10. Should Primary Care Trusts be Made More Locally Accountable? A King's Fund discussion paper

    10 April 2008
    The King's Fund

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