Research methods & information tools

Nuffield Trust Senior Fellow Dr Geraint Lewis highlights the development of cutting-edge decision technologies for health care in the US and the UK

In this audio slideshow Dr Bardsley outlines a new approach to allocating resources to commissioning bodies in the NHS

Dr Geraint Lewis on how decision technologies can be used in the NHS to help patients, clinicians, managers and commissioners make better decisions

Dr Dirk Göpffarth, Head of Risk Adjustment, German Federal Social Insurance Office, on the use of risk adjustment in Germany

Professor Wynand van de Ven, Professor of Health Insurance, Erasmus University Rotterdam on the use of risk adjustment in the Netherlands

Professor Ian Duncan, University of California Santa Barbara, introduces the concept of risk adjustment and outlines its applications in health care

Dr Martin Bardsley, Head of Research at the Nuffield Trust reflects on the effect of the current NHS reforms on information policy

David A. Share of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, talks through his experiences of how comparative effectiveness research can boost the search for more effective care

Imperial College London’s Peter Smith on the common challenge facing both the US and UK health systems, to produce better quality information about the purpose of health care...

Head of Research Dr Martin Bardsley introduces the Nuffield Trust’s data laboratory and looks at the appropriate ways of handling information in the health service