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Health structures, legislation and reform

The NHS is a large and highly complex health system that its millions of users value highly, but it is far from perfect. Reforming and adapting services is always top of the government's agenda and the health service is in a constant state of change, striving to improve care through a whirlwind of policies and strategies.

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NHS trust: why Whitehall’s increasingly divided view on health and care matters

Long read
  • 16/11/2023
  • Mark Dayan

Nuffield Trust responds to Labour announcement on NHS equipment

Press release
  • 07/10/2023

The next general election will be critical for five areas of health and social care

Blog post
  • 15/08/2023
  • Mark Dayan

Key work on this topic

A new NHS reorganisation: will it work this time?

Blog post
  • 01/07/2022
  • Mark Dayan | Camille Oung | Sarah Reed

Through the looking glass: myths and magical thinking about the NHS

Blog post
  • 19/10/2022
  • Nigel Edwards

Public satisfaction with the NHS falls to a 25-year low

Blog post
  • 30/03/2022
  • John Appleby | Dan Wellings

People, partnerships and place: How can ICSs turn the rhetoric into reality?

Report
  • 20/01/2023
  • Helen Buckingham | Sarah Reed | Stephanie Kumpunen | Dr Richard Lewis

Integrating health and social care: A comparison of policy and progress across the four countries of the UK

Report
  • 14/12/2021
  • Sarah Reed | Camille Oung | Jenny Davies | Mark Dayan | Sarah Scobie

Changing our centralised NHS

How to reconcile the dominant culture of centralisation in our health service with the initiative and innovation necessary for complicated change? Session at Nuffield Trust Summit, 3 March 2023.

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