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Journal article 15/07/2019
Study to determine long-term outcomes of older people discharged from hospital following short (
Report 20/01/2019Billy PalmerJohn ApplebyJonathan Spencer
It 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 07/12/2018Sarah Scobie
Ensuring care is safe and harm-free remains high on the policy agenda, and rightly so. But are we measuring and monitoring safety appropriately, and what steps could be taken to improve it in the long run? Sarah Scobie argues for a shift in our understanding.
Page • QualityWatch 21/10/2018
Infographic: We analysed 100 million hospital episodes per year over five years to explore disparities in hospital use for physical healthcare.
Summary 13/09/2018Candace ImisonLouella Vaughan
This profile of smaller hospitals in England finds trusts struggling to recruit and retain acute medical staff. Services across the country are configured in a wide variety of ways, with little evidence of an 'ideal' model for acute medical care emerging from our research.
Research 06/09/2018Dr Elizabeth FisherEilís KeebleJoshua Kraindler
The Nuffield Trust has developed a tool to help providers and commissioners of care in England assess the needs of frail older people being cared for in hospital.
Spotlight 02/07/2018
The NHS's 70th birthday has been accompanied by unprecedented levels of debate over the best ways of running the health care system. Here we collect together the work we have been doing to contribute evidence, analysis and our expert opinion to the discussions taking place.
Report 26/06/2018George Stoye
To mark the BBC's coverage of the NHS's 70th birthday in July 2018, researchers from the Health Foundation, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, The King’s Fund and the Nuffield Trust have joined forces for the first time, using combined expertise to shed light on some of the big questions on the NHS...
Report 25/06/2018Mark DayanDeborah WardTim GardnerElaine Kelly
To mark the BBC's coverage of the NHS's 70th birthday in July 2018, researchers from the Health Foundation, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, The King’s Fund and the Nuffield Trust have joined forces for the first time, using combined expertise to shed light on some of the big questions on the NHS...
Spotlight 22/06/2018
To mark the BBC’s coverage of the NHS’s 70th birthday, researchers from the Health Foundation, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, The King’s Fund and the Nuffield Trust have joined forces for the first time, using combined expertise to shed light on some of the big questions on the NHS. We expl...