A new Nuffield Trust report shows that around one in five mothers attend A&E in the year after they give birth, while 6% have an emergency hospital admission. Black women, those from the most deprived ...

New analysis of 1.6 million births in England reveals that one in five women attend A&E in the year after giving birth – with ...

Responding to the latest monthly NHS performance statistics, Nuffield Trust Fellow Bea Taylor said: "A&E attendances are ...

Last year, the government introduced league tables rating the performance of NHS trusts in England. Thea Stein, who raised ...

In a speech at the recent Nuffield Trust Summit, Baroness Louise Casey – tasked with conducting a review of adult social care – called for “a moment of reckoning”. Describing the sector’s many ...

This report explores the current and future direction of the independent prescribing workforce in the UK health care system. Independent prescribers are qualified non-medical health care professionals ...

While much of the noise around the latest round of NHS reform is about abolishing NHS England and the promise of neighbourhood health teams, there has been little scrutiny about the central role that ...

District nursing services provide care for patients and support for family members in the community, including at home, in clinical settings and in care homes. Services are intended to be universal – ...

NHS continuing health care provides funded health and social care support for people with very complex needs outside hospital. Yet our comprehensive new report shows this system is highly inconsistent ...

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 ...

The decision of resident doctors – qualified medical practitioners in postgraduate training – in England to strike has intensified the interest in their pay. To provide independent analysis on the ...