Who we are

About us

The Nuffield Trust is one of the leading independent health policy charitable trusts in the UK. The Trust's mission is to promote independent analysis and informed debate on UK healthcare policy. The Trust’s purpose is to communicate evidence and encourage an exchange around developed or developing knowledge in order to illuminate recognised and emerging issues.

It achieves this through its principal activities:

• Bringing together a wide national and international network of people involved in UK healthcare through a series of meetings, workshops and seminars.
• Commissioning research through its publications and grants programme to inform policy debate.
• Encouraging interdisciplinary exchange between legislators, academics, healthcare professionals and management, policy makers, industrialists and consumer groups.
• Supporting evidence-based health policy and practice.
• Sharing its knowledge in the home countries and internationally through partnerships and alliances. 

History

The Nuffiled Trust was established as the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust in 1940 by Viscount Nuffield  (William Morris), the founder of Morris Motors.
In 1998 the Trustees agreed that the official name of the Trust should more fully reflect the Trust’s purposes and, in consultation with the Charity Commission, adopted the name The Nuffield Trust for Research and Policy Studies in Health Services, retaining ‘The Nuffield Trust’ as its working name.
Formerly, The Nuffield Trust worked along side its sister charity, the Nuffield Health and Social Services Fund (NH&SSF). In 2007 the Nuffield Board of Trustees merged the Nuffield Trust and NH&SSF, which has adopted the name of the Nuffield Trust as of 1 December.