The Nuffield Trust is an independent health think tank. We aim to improve the quality of health care in the UK by providing evidence-based research and policy analysis and informing and generating ...

With all eyes on this week’s budget announcement, will social care be overlooked again? Natasha Curry and Camille Oung emphasise the pressures affecting the beleaguered sector and argue that a ...

Dental services are organised differently from most other care provided by the NHS. Unlike GP services, patients are not registered with an NHS dentist, and dental practices are not required to ...

Excessive alcohol consumption can have harmful health consequences in the short term but also in the long term, through conditions such as liver disease, stroke and some cancers. Alcohol-related ...

High-quality end of life care is important to ensure people approaching the end of life, and their family and carers, have access to appropriate treatment and support during a vulnerable and difficult ...

An 'out of area placement' (OAP) occurs when a person with acute mental health needs who requires inpatient care is admitted to a unit that does not form part of the usual local network of services.

Mortality rates (the number of people who die each year per 100,000 population) give a general measure of the health of a population. They are affected by the quality of health care, but also by a ...

Preventable risk factors such as smoking tobacco, being overweight, physical inactivity and harmful use of alcohol contribute to the global burden of non-communicable diseases. These risk factors can ...

Fairness in access to health care is one of the founding principles of the NHS, yet there is some evidence for the inverse care law which states that those with the greatest need are often the least ...

“After over a decade of constrained funding, NHS finances prior to this Budget were perilous. The funding promised today will ...