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 ...

General practice funding is inequitable: the Carr-Hill formula, which decides the distribution of funding, is outdated and fails to take account of socioeconomic deprivation. This briefing, produced ...

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 ...

Fifty years ago this Sunday (20 March 1972), Archie Cochrane delivered his seminal lecture “Effectiveness and Efficiency: Random Reflections on Health Services” in the Biochemistry Lecture Theatre of ...

*This explainer is an updated version of analysis we published in November 2023. There is no right or wrong answer to the question: how much funding does the NHS need? The answer is rather a political ...

Referrals to autism services are more common among children and young people than older adults. The rate of referrals per 100,000 population more than doubled for both population groups over this ...

NHS provider trusts in England are in the midst of the worst deterioration in their financial health in a decade, with trusts in the North West and Midlands recording the deepest overspends last year.

This is the first in a new series from the Trust looking at each of the four health services of the UK in a detailed and qualitative way, while asking what lessons they hold for the other countries.