The new 10 Year Health Plan for England promises to shift more care from hospitals into the community, but history shows how ...

As we today launch the Nuffield Trust’s new organisational strategy, Thea Stein argues that the traditional roadmap no longer ...

“Today’s statistics are a stark reminder that despite the continued hard work of staff, the NHS is still struggling to keep ...

C-sections are a common procedure in maternity care, but higher rates of emergency caesareans can be a sign of systemic ...

The Nuffield Trust holds a neutral position on the ethical question of whether or not assisted dying should be legalised, for whom, and in what circumstances. We are committed to identifying evidence ...

Governments have been trying to reduce waiting times for planned consultant-led hospital care, sometimes called referral to treatment (RTT) waiting times, for decades. The NHS’s target is to see 92% ...

Calls for assisted dying to become legal have been more prominent in recent months. Legislation is being considered in a number of jurisdictions in the UK, including in Jersey and the Isle of Man ...

With the Chancellor making further updates to government spending plans and the health service facing crisis on several fronts, there is uncertainty over what the future will hold for health care ...

Emergency admissions, where patients are admitted to hospital urgently and unexpectedly (i.e. the admission is unplanned), are unpleasant experiences for patients and costly for healthcare providers.

Prevention of blood clots, medically known as venous thromboembolism (VTE), is a key patient safety priority for hospitals. VTE includes both deep-vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE), ...