Research

Research into the UK's health system is one of our core activities and has been since we were founded over 70 years ago. We undertake projects that will provide evidence on key areas of health and social care and which build upon our established areas of expertise.

Featured work

The health care workforce in England: make or break? 15/11/2018 • Nuffield Trust | The Health Foundation | The King's Fund

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Doomed to repeat? Lessons from the history of NHS reform 15/10/2018 • Nigel Edwards | Mark Dayan | Billy Palmer | Helen Buckingham | Dr Rebecca Rosen

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RSET: The rapid service evaluation team 06/06/2018

Project

Rapid evaluations of new ways of providing care.

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A two-way street: What can CCGs teach us about accountability in STPs?

Report

15/11/2017 • Holly Holder | Helen Buckingham

A report exploring the challenges and opportunities presented by sustainability and transformation partnerships (STPs) for accountability in the NHS.

The Autumn Budget: joint statement on health and social care

Report

08/11/2017 • Nuffield Trust | The Health Foundation | The King's Fund

Nuffield Trust, the Health Foundation and The King’s Fund are urging the government to address the critical state of health and social care in its forthcoming Autumn Budget.

How will our future relationship with the EU shape the NHS?

Report

07/11/2017 • Mark Dayan

What effect will the Brexit negotiations have on the way the NHS operates in future? This briefing looks at five key areas where the agreements that are made with the European Union will shape health and social care over the coming decades.

Root causes: Quality and inequality in dental health

Report

02/11/2017 • John Appleby | Leonora Merry | Robert Reed

This latest report from QualityWatch looks at publicly available data on dental health quality. While overall outcomes have improved over several decades, there remain significant regional and socioeconomic differences, with people from the North of England, or from more deprived backgrounds, generally experiencing worse dental health.

Collaboration in general practice: Surveys of GP practice and clinical commissioning groups

Report

10/10/2017 • Stephanie Kumpunen | Natasha Curry | Maddy Farnworth | Dr Rebecca Rosen

Results of the second wave of surveys of general practice staff and CCG staff conducted by the Nuffield Trust and the Royal College of General Practitioners.

Comparison of control charts for monitoring clinical performance using binary data

Journal article

25/09/2017

Time series charts are increasingly used by clinical teams to monitor their performance, but statistical control charts are not widely used, partly due to uncertainty about which chart to use. Although there is a large literature on methods, there are few systematic comparisons of charts for detecting changes in rates of binary clinical performance data.

Summary booklets on lessons for large-scale general practice

Summary

13/09/2017 • Dr Rebecca Rosen | Stephanie Kumpunen | Natasha Curry | Dr Alisha Davies | Dr Luisa Pettigrew | Lucia Kossarova

Booklets to accompany our report from July 2016.

Sustainability and transformation plans in London

Report

12/09/2017 • Professor Chris Ham CBE | Hugh Alderwick | Nigel Edwards | Sally Gainsbury

An independent analysis of the October 2016 STPs (completed in March 2017).

The bottom line: Understanding the NHS deficit and why it won’t go away

Report

31/08/2017 • Sally Gainsbury

This briefing reveals the true underlying state of the NHS’s finances today, and outlines prospects for the next three to four years.

Primary Care Home: Evaluating a new model of primary care

Report

24/08/2017 • Stephanie Kumpunen | Dr Rebecca Rosen | Lucia Kossarova | Chris Sherlaw-Johnson

This report is our evaluation of the Primary Care Home model - a way of organising care for groups of up to 50,000 patients.