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Our work

Nuffield Trust is an authoritative and independent source of evidence-based research and policy analysis for improving health care in the UK. We aim to help provide the evidence base for better health care. Our work programme focuses on a number of key areas in which we have expertise. These areas are outlined below – from these pages you will be able to access all our resources.

Commissioning

Ahead of major reform, we are examining how to strengthen commissioning

Competition

We are analysing market mechanisms to see if they can improve NHS performance

Efficiency & productivity

Research and analysis on meeting the NHS financial challenge

Evaluation

We are evaluating interventions that aim to reduce the cost and demand of care

Integrated care

We are examining new ways of organising and delivering care to benefit patients

NHS reform

Research and analysis on the Government’s health care reforms

Predictive risk

We are leading work to develop predictive risk modelling techniques to improve health

Quality of care

Through our research we support the delivery of high quality care

Research methods & information tools

Social care

We are active in the debate about how to finance & deliver good quality social care

UK & international comparisons

Analysis of global best practice in health

Project finder

Featured project: The coalition Government's health and social care reforms

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  • Analyses of ambulatory care-sensitive conditions

    Commissioning
    Efficiency & productivity
    Quality of care
    Project leads:
    Ian Blunt
    Dr Martin Bardsley
  • Buying time: what is the scale of the financial challenge facing the NHS & how can it be met?

    Efficiency & productivity
    NHS reform
    Project leads:
    Anita Charlesworth
    Adam Roberts
  • Cancer patients' use of social care

    Predictive risk
    Research methods & information tools
    Social care
    Project leads: Adam Steventon
  • Commissioning for long-term conditions

    Commissioning
    Integrated care
    Quality of care
    Project leads:
    Dr Judith Smith
    Dr Sara Shaw
    Dr Alison Porter
  • Developing a national strategy for the promotion of integrated care

    Integrated care
    NHS reform
    Social care
    Project leads:
    Dr Judith Smith
    Dr Rebecca Rosen
  • Developing evaluation methods to help the NHS provide care more effectively

    Evaluation
    Quality of care
    Research methods & information tools
    Project leads: Adam Steventon
  • Evaluation of community matrons on hospital use

    Efficiency & productivity
    Evaluation
    Quality of care
    Project leads: Adam Steventon
  • Evaluation of the North Somerset Community Wards

    Evaluation
    Integrated care
    Project leads:
    Adam Steventon
    Dr Geraint Lewis
    Dr Martin Bardsley
  • Examining the effectiveness of Virtual Wards

    Evaluation
    Integrated care
    Predictive risk
    Project leads: Dr Geraint Lewis
  • Funding and performance of health care systems in the four countries of the UK

    UK & international comparisons
    Project leads:
    Dr Jennifer Dixon
    Professor Gwyn Bevan
    Professor Nicholas Mays
    Sheelah Connolly
  • Future challenges for primary care

    Commissioning
    Integrated care
    NHS reform
    UK & international comparisons
    Project leads:
    Dr Judith Smith
    Dr Rebecca Rosen
    Ruth Thorlby
    Holly Holder
  • Independent practitioner associations in New Zealand: surviving to thrive

    Commissioning
    UK & international comparisons
    Project leads:
    Dr Judith Smith
    Ruth Thorlby
    Professor Nicholas Mays
    Dr Bev O’Keefe
    Pauline Barnett
  • Managing the NHS through the financial squeeze: learning from international experience

    Efficiency & productivity
    UK & international comparisons
    Project leads:
    Dr Judith Smith
    Ruth Thorlby
  • National evaluation of integrated care pilots

    Evaluation
    Integrated care
    Predictive risk
    Project leads:
    Dr Martin Bardsley
    Xavier Chitnis
    Adam Steventon
  • NHS in numbers: key charts

    Commissioning
    Competition
    Efficiency & productivity
    NHS reform
    Quality of care
    UK & international comparisons
    Project leads:
    Anita Charlesworth
    Dr Louise Marshall
    Sandeepa Arora
  • NHS spending: monitoring expenditure and productivity

    Efficiency & productivity
    NHS reform
    Project leads: Anita Charlesworth
  • North West London integrated care pilot evaluation

    Evaluation
    Integrated care
    Project leads:
    Dr Martin Bardsley
    Dr Judith Smith
    Ian Blunt
    Natasha Curry
    Holly Holder
  • Nuffield Trust Data Lab: exploiting existing information in new ways

    Evaluation
    Predictive risk
    Research methods & information tools
    Project leads:
    Dr Martin Bardsley
    Theo Georghiou
  • Patterns of care at the end of life

    Commissioning
    Efficiency & productivity
    Quality of care
    Research methods & information tools
    Social care
    Project leads:
    Dr Martin Bardsley
    Theo Georghiou
    Xavier Chitnis
  • Person-based Resource Allocation (PBRA)

    Commissioning
    Predictive risk
    Research methods & information tools
    Project leads:
    Dr Jennifer Dixon
    Dr Martin Bardsley
  • Predicting risk of hospital readmission with PARR-30

    Predictive risk
    Research methods & information tools
    Project leads:
    Dr Martin Bardsley
    Theo Georghiou
    Professor John Billings
    Ian Blunt
  • Supporting the development of clinical commissioning groups and NHS England

    Commissioning
    NHS reform
    Project leads:
    Ruth Thorlby
    Dr Rebecca Rosen
    Natasha Curry
  • The AXA Research Project on how can private long-term care insurance supplement state systems: the...

    Predictive risk
    Social care
    UK & international comparisons
    Project leads: Adam Steventon
  • The coalition Government's health and social care reforms

    Commissioning
    Competition
    Efficiency & productivity
    Integrated care
    NHS reform
    Social care
    Project leads:
    Anita Charlesworth
    Dr Jennifer Dixon
    Dr Judith Smith
    Ruth Thorlby
  • The evolution of clinical commissioning: learning from local experience

    Commissioning
    NHS reform
    Project leads:
    Natasha Curry
    Holly Holder
    Dr Louise Marshall
  • The Francis Inquiry: Nuffield Trust analysis and resources

    Commissioning
    NHS reform
    Quality of care
    UK & international comparisons
    Project leads:
    Dr Judith Smith
    Dr Jennifer Dixon
  • The health and social care ratings review

    Integrated care
    NHS reform
    Quality of care
    Social care
    Project leads:
    Dr Jennifer Dixon
    Dr Martin Bardsley
  • The impact of telehealth and telecare: the Whole System Demonstrator project

    Efficiency & productivity
    Evaluation
    Integrated care
    Predictive risk
    Social care
    Project leads:
    Dr Martin Bardsley
    Adam Steventon
  • The quest for efficiency in the English NHS

    Efficiency & productivity
    Project leads: Dr Judith Smith
  • Tracking the journey towards integrated care in Trafford

    Integrated care
    Social care
    Project leads:
    Natasha Curry
    Dr Sara Shaw
    Dr Judith Smith
  • UK health care information: an examination of information governance arrangements

    Research methods & information tools
    Project leads: Dr Benedict Rumbold
  • Understanding competition and choice in the NHS

    Competition
    NHS reform
    Project leads:
    Anita Charlesworth
    Dr Jennifer Dixon
  • Universal access and low costs? Health and social care the Japanese way

    Efficiency & productivity
    NHS reform
    Social care
    UK & international comparisons
    Project leads:
    Natasha Curry
    Holly Holder
    Ruth Thorlby
  • Use of decision technology in the health service

    Research methods & information tools
    Project leads: Dr Geraint Lewis
  • Uses of predictive risk adjustment in the NHS

    Commissioning
    Predictive risk
    Research methods & information tools
    Project leads:
    Dr Martin Bardsley
    Dr Geraint Lewis

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