Nuffield Trust Blog

One year on from the launch of the new models of care vanguards programme, Nigel Edwards reflects on the progress made so far. 

Why is it that some countries pay half what others do for health care, but achieve better outcomes? Ahead of our Health Policy Summit, our keynote speaker Mark Britnell examines five common traits of the world's most efficient health and care systems.

Drawing on his own experiences in the US, Dr Harpreet Sood, Senior Fellow to the NHS England Chief Executive, outlines technological advancements in health care will fail to progress unless the workforce is engaged along the way.  

We talked to Robert Pearl, CEO of The Permanente Medical Group of US integrated care consortium Kaiser Permanente, on the complicated business of improving quality outcomes while drawing efficiency savings from technology in health care. 

Kicking off our new series on digitising the NHS, we interview Robert Wachter, author of The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine's Computer Age, about his experience introducing digital health technologies in the US.

As part of the launch of our new report on children's health services, Dr Ingrid Wolfe, Children and Young People’s Health Partnership, outlines why we must ensure that children and young people do not miss out on the opportunities posed by new models of care.

Later today, Members of Parliament will debate a backbench motion calling for a cross-party Royal Commission into long-term funding for health and social care. Mark Dayan examines where a royal commission really is the answer for our struggling NHS. 

Chris Sherlaw-Johnson examines how data from care homes can be used more effectively to create better outcomes for patients across the country. 

Dr Rebecca Rosen examines the motivators and barriers to change in general practice, and wonders whether an NHS 'psychologist in residence' might help make policy makers more aware of the psychological factors that shape workforce behaviour.