General practice funding is inequitable: the Carr-Hill formula, which decides the distribution of funding, is outdated and fails to take account of socioeconomic deprivation.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

Students training for nursing, midwifery and nursing associate roles are required to complete hands-on 'practice learning' ...

A Nuffield Trust review into nurse and midwife training standards has revealed highly varied learning experiences and ...

Sally Gainsbury joined the Nuffield Trust in October 2015 as Senior Policy Analyst. Her focus is on health and social care funding and the NHS financing system. She also contributes to the Trust’s ...

A week before the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves delivered her first budget, the Nuffield Trust published analysis showing that the NHS in England was facing £4.8bn worth of unfunded cost ...

The vote in parliament last week in favour of progressing a Bill to legalise assisted dying had huge ramifications. With the health and social care policy world beginning to tilt as the implications ...

In September 2024, the overall waiting list to start elective (planned) care was 7.57 million, which was a small improvement on August 2024. There was an increase in the number of patients starting ...

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Mark Dayan is Brexit Programme Lead at the Nuffield Trust, working on the implications of leaving the European Union and of trade agreements for the NHS, life sciences and social care. Mark has also ...