Report
14/12/2021 Sarah Reed Camille Oung Jenny Davies Mark Dayan Sarah ScobieThe integration of health and social care has been a long-standing policy priority in each country of the UK. However, there is limited evidence these policies are delivering the results expected of them. This report looks at the impact of integration across the four countries and compares the polic...
Blog post
12/05/2020 Camille Oung Natasha CurryThe coronavirus crisis has led to a belated focus on social care – highlighting both the sector’s vital role and its struggles. Camille Oung and Natasha Curry look at how the social care provider market has been causing particular difficulties, and how the lessons from Covid-19 can help bring a...
Blog post
18/03/2020 Camille OungAs we start a series of explainers describing the social care system in each country of the UK, lead author Camille Oung looks at what social care policy-makers in England can learn from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Reform must come with funding and clarity – and it must secure public sup...
Report
10/07/2019 Mark Dayan Prof. Deirdre HeenanThree years after Rafael Bengoa’s blueprint for improving the Northern Irish health service, this report uses interviews with health service leaders in Northern Ireland as well as outside experts and clinicians to assess which factors are helping or hindering Northern Ireland's efforts to change i...
Press release
10/07/2019A new report from the Nuffield Trust looks at which factors are helping or hindering change in Northern Ireland.
Report
20/01/2019 Billy Palmer John Appleby Jonathan SpencerIt is generally acknowledged that small, rural NHS health care providers face higher costs than larger, urban areas. For a number of years the NHS has adjusted financial allocations to account for these unavoidable variations in costs in different parts of the country. However, our review for the Na...
Blog post
17/10/2017 Prof. Deirdre Heenan John ApplebyDeirdre Heenan and John Appleby look back at reviews of the health and care system in Northern Ireland, the need for reform and what it means for patients, and where we are now.
Press release
05/07/2017The unique strengths of Scotland's NHS, in particular the way it improves quality and safety, could be undermined by serious financial pressure over the next few years.
Report
05/07/2017 Mark Dayan Nigel EdwardsThis report looks at Scotland’s unique health care system, and explores how other parts of the UK might be able to learn from it.
Briefing
22/04/2016The Welsh NHS is at the centre of the campaign for next month’s Assembly elections. But which of the country’s political parties is right about how it is doing? Who has the answers? And what don’t they dare to ask?