Sarah joined the Nuffield Trust in 2018 as Deputy Director of Research. Prior to the Nuffield Trust she worked in senior analytical roles in the NHS, public health, and arm’s-length bodies, including the National Patient Safety Agency, and Healthcare Commission.
Sarah’s work at the Nuffield Trust focuses on quality of care, evaluation, and developing analytical research methods. She leads the QualityWatch programme, with the Health Foundation, which provides independent scrutiny of how the quality of health and social care is changing over time, and she has also led work on the quality of ethnic variation in elective care, and integration of health and social care. Recently she has led research on trends and expenditure on end-of-life care, and is leading the Nuffield Trust's project on assisted dying and lessons which can be learned from international experience.
Sarah has many years’ experience as an information specialist in the NHS. She has a PhD in medical geography and an MSc in Health Economics and Health Policy.