Report 08/07/2021Billy PalmerLaura SchlepperNina HemmingsNadia Crellin
Despite psychology being a popular subject to study at degree level, staffing mental health services remains hugely challenging. With ambitions to grow the numbers of psychologists and psychotherapists by 2023/24, this report looks at the size and make up of the workforce of those with a background...
Report 07/06/2021Sarah ScobieJonathan SpencerVeena Raleigh
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted ethnic disparities in health care and outcomes in England, but data on the ethnicities of patients remains poor. This report looks at the quality and consistency of ethnicity coding within health datasets and calls on NHS England to provide new guidance for heal...
Report 14/05/2021Sarah ReedBilly PalmerMike BrewerMaja Gustafsson
Asking people with Covid-19 to self-isolate is vital to keep the pandemic under control as lockdown measures ease, yet only 52% of people who have symptoms isolate. This briefing by the Nuffield Trust and the Resolution Foundation argues that financial support through schemes similar to furlough sho...
Report 06/05/2021Chris Sherlaw-JohnsonNadia CrellinRachel HutchingsCamille OungLucina RolewiczStephanie KumpunenSarah Scobie
Digital health innovations are often seen as 'ready made' solutions to challenges facing health and care systems but despite their potential, implementing these technologies can be complex. This summary highlights ten lessons for those working to integrate technology into health and social care serv...
Report 16/04/2021Natasha CurryCamille Oung
Covid-19 has highlighted many issues in the social care system in the last year, but providers of these vital services are still often ignored. This report highlights the systemic problems with the way the provider market for social care operates in England.
Report 13/04/2021John ApplebyLaura SchlepperEilís Keeble
The NHS is the largest employer of ethnic minority staff in England with over 225,000 employees. Issues around equality are important, but how is this reflected in staff pay? This research report examines the differences in basic pay between ethnic minority staff and White staff employed by the NHS...
Report 22/01/2021Eilís KeebleDr Elizabeth Fisher
Children under the age of five accounted for 10% of emergency attendances and 9% of emergency admissions in 2018/19, despite representing less than 6% of the population – what might some of the factors behind this be? This research summary by Eilís Keeble and Dr Elizabeth Fisher considers some of...
Report 22/12/2020Mark DayanNick FahyProfessor Tamara HerveyMartha McCareyHolly JarmanProf Scott Greer
With the prospect of a deal still very much hanging in the balance, the UK's transition period for leaving the European Union ends in a matter of days on 31 December 2020. This major new report maps out the health areas that will be affected by this decisive exit from the Union and discusses the dil...
Report 11/12/2020Billy PalmerLucina Rolewicz
Even before the pandemic, rural and remote health services faced long-standing workforce, financial and capacity issues. So how are those same services faring in the face of the biggest health crisis in generations? This analysis assesses the outlook for these vital providers of care.
Report 14/10/2020Mark Dayan
As the European Council meets to review the state of negotiations on the future EU-UK partnership, a new Nuffield Trust briefing assesses how leaving the single market might affect UK health and social care services just as they are grappling with a second wave of Covid-19 and the biggest health cri...