Workforce

The changing nature of health care, alongside growing pressure on budgets, demands new skills, new ways of working, and new approaches to managing the health care workforce. We are working to explore how the workforce can be developed to address these challenges.

Projects

Medical generalism in smaller hospitals

Project lead: Louella Vaughan , Candace Imison, Sílvia Machaqueiro, Matt Gaskins, Dr Martin Bardsley
The sustainability of emergency surgery services: exploring a network-based approach

Project lead: Candace Imison, Helen Crump, Matt Gaskins

Completed on 11 Apr 2016
Identifying priorities for workforce redesign and development

Project lead: Candace Imison
Unscheduled acute care in London: mapping models of care and understanding the impact of quality standards

Project lead: Candace Imison, Matt Gaskins, Sílvia Machaqueiro, Louella Vaughan
Workforce productivity and technology

Project lead: Candace Imison, Sophie Castle-Clarke
Managing doctors, doctors managing: understanding the relationships between doctors and managers in acute trusts in the UK

Project lead: Professor Huw Davies , Dr Alison Powell , Ruth Thorlby, Nigel Edwards
Developing a patient reported measure of care coordination

Project lead: Ruth Thorlby, Helen Crump

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Candace Imison: Building the workforce
Candace Imison, Director of Healthcare Systems at the Nuffield Trust, presents on how we need the right workforce to transform the delivery system in healthcare.

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Featured project: Evaluating the implementation of Stroke Association Voluntary...

QualityWatch

Areas of work:
Hospital care
Quality of care

Project leads:
Dr Elizabeth Fisher
Holly Dorning
Dr Lucia Kossarova
Eilís Keeble
Nora Cooke O'Dowd
Acute hospital care for frail older people

Areas of work:
Commissioning
Evaluation
Hospital care
Older people and complex care
Research methods & information tools
Social care

Project leads:
Dr Jenny Neuburger
Sandeepa Arora
Analyses of ambulatory care-sensitive conditions

Areas of work:
Commissioning
NHS Finances and Efficiency
Quality of care

Project leads:
Ian Blunt
Dr Martin Bardsley
Cancer patients' use of health and social care

Areas of work:
Older people and complex care
Research methods & information tools
Social care

Project leads:
Dr Martin Bardsley
Adam Steventon
Commissioning for long-term conditions

Areas of work:
Commissioning
Integrated care

Project leads:
Professor Judith Smith
Dr Sara Shaw
Dr Alison Porter
Comparing the four health systems of the UK: key charts

Areas of work: Commissioning
Developing a patient reported measure of care coordination

Areas of work:
Integrated care
Older people and complex care
Workforce

Project leads:
Ruth Thorlby
Helen Crump
Developing evaluation methods to help the NHS provide care more effectively

Areas of work:
Evaluation
Integrated care
Older people and complex care
Quality of care
Research methods & information tools

Project leads:
Theo Georghiou
Dr Martin Bardsley
Cono Ariti
Devolution in the English NHS

Areas of work:
NHS reform
UK & international comparisons
Evaluating Age UK’s Integrated Care Programme

Areas of work:
Evaluation
Older people and complex care
Research methods & information tools

Project leads: Theo Georghiou
Evaluating new primary care services in North East London

Areas of work:
Evaluation
Integrated care

Project leads:
Chris Sherlaw-Johnson
Dr Alisha Davies
Dr Miranda Davies
Holly Holder
Helen Crump
Sandeepa Arora
Evaluating the implementation of Stroke Association Voluntary Groups and their impact on...

Areas of work:
Evaluation
Older people and complex care
Research methods & information tools

Project leads:
Holly Dorning
Dr Miranda Davies
Theo Georghiou
Cono Ariti
Evaluation of the North West London Whole Systems Integrated Care programme

Areas of work:
Evaluation
Integrated care
NHS Finances and Efficiency

Project leads:
Professor Judith Smith
Matt Gaskins
Holly Holder
Examining the effectiveness of Virtual Wards

Areas of work:
Evaluation
Integrated care
Older people and complex care
Research methods & information tools

Project leads:
Dr Geraint Lewis
Dr Martin Bardsley
Exploring approaches to reducing length of stay

Areas of work:
Hospital care
NHS Finances and Efficiency

Project leads: Nigel Edwards
Funding and performance of health care systems in the four countries of the UK

Areas of work:
NHS reform
UK & international comparisons

Project leads:
Professor Gwyn Bevan
Professor Nicholas Mays
Sheelah Connolly
General Election 2015

Areas of work: NHS reform
Health leaders survey results: 3

Areas of work:
Commissioning
NHS Finances and Efficiency
Health leaders survey results: 5
Health leaders survey results: Survey 6 on footprints, financing and staff morale
Health leaders' panel

Areas of work:
NHS Finances and Efficiency
NHS reform
Social care

Project leads:
Ruth Thorlby
Leonora Merry
Identifying priorities for workforce redesign and development

Areas of work: Workforce

Project leads: Candace Imison
Identifying successful care for frail older people

Areas of work:
Older people and complex care
Quality of care

Project leads:
Chris Sherlaw-Johnson
Dr Alisha Davies
Dr Miranda Davies
Claire Currie
Interactive timeline: the history of NHS reform

Areas of work: NHS reform
Large-scale general practice

Areas of work: Primary care

Project leads: Stephanie Kumpunen
Managing doctors, doctors managing: understanding the relationships between doctors and managers in...

Areas of work: Workforce

Project leads:
Professor Huw Davies
Dr Alison Powell
Ruth Thorlby
Nigel Edwards
Managing the NHS through the financial squeeze: learning from international experience

Areas of work:
NHS Finances and Efficiency
UK & international comparisons

Project leads:
Professor Judith Smith
Ruth Thorlby
Medical generalism in smaller hospitals

Areas of work:
Hospital care
Older people and complex care
Quality of care
Workforce

Project leads:
Louella Vaughan
Candace Imison
Sílvia Machaqueiro
Matt Gaskins
Dr Martin Bardsley
NHS @ 65: Our analysis & resources

Areas of work: NHS reform
NHS in numbers: key charts

Areas of work:
Commissioning
Competition
NHS Finances and Efficiency
UK & international comparisons

Project leads: Sandeepa Arora
NHS spending: monitoring expenditure and productivity

Areas of work:
NHS Finances and Efficiency
NHS reform

Project leads:
Andy McKeon
Sarah Lafond
Nuffield Trust Data Lab: exploiting existing information in new ways

Areas of work:
Evaluation
Research methods & information tools

Project leads:
Dr Martin Bardsley
Theo Georghiou
Patterns of care at the end of life

Areas of work:
Commissioning
NHS Finances and Efficiency
Older people and complex care
Quality of care
Research methods & information tools
Social care

Project leads:
Dr Martin Bardsley
Theo Georghiou
Reducing winter pressure on hospitals: Evaluating the impact of social action programmes

Areas of work:
Evaluation
Hospital care
Older people and complex care
Research methods & information tools

Project leads:
Dr Martin Bardsley
Ruth Thorlby
Cono Ariti
Theo Georghiou
Dr Miranda Davies
Reforming health and social care: 2015-2020

Areas of work:
Competition
NHS reform
Spending Review 2015

Areas of work: NHS Finances and Efficiency
Spotlight on: A&E

Areas of work:
Hospital care
NHS reform
Quality of care
Spotlight on: General Election 2015 manifestos

Areas of work: NHS reform
Spotlight on: Seven-day NHS

Areas of work: NHS reform
Spotlight on: the four countries of the UK

Areas of work:
Commissioning
Quality of care
UK & international comparisons
Spotlight on: Wales

Areas of work:
Quality of care
UK & international comparisons
Supporting the development of clinical commissioning groups and NHS England

Areas of work:
Commissioning
NHS reform

Project leads:
Dr Rebecca Rosen
Holly Holder
The evolution of clinical commissioning: learning from local experience

Areas of work:
Commissioning
NHS reform

Project leads:
Natasha Curry
Holly Holder
The Francis Inquiry: Nuffield Trust analysis and resources

Areas of work:
Commissioning
NHS reform
Quality of care

Project leads:
Professor Judith Smith
Ruth Thorlby
The future of general practice: new models of care

Areas of work:
Commissioning
Integrated care
NHS reform
Primary care
UK & international comparisons

Project leads:
Stephanie Kumpunen
Dr Rebecca Rosen
Natasha Curry
Dr Kushal Barai
Sandeepa Arora
Dr Alisha Davies
Dr Luisa Pettigrew
The future of primary care and general practice

Areas of work:
Commissioning
Integrated care
Primary care

Project leads:
Professor Judith Smith
Natasha Curry
Holly Holder
The health and social care ratings review

Areas of work:
Hospital care
Integrated care
NHS Finances and Efficiency
NHS reform
Quality of care
Social care

Project leads:
Dr Jennifer Dixon CBE
Dr Martin Bardsley
The New Cavendish Group

Areas of work:
Hospital care
NHS reform

Project leads:
Nigel Edwards
Matt Gaskins
Candace Imison
The state of NHS finances and the £22bn efficiency challenge

Areas of work:
NHS Finances and Efficiency
NHS reform
The sustainability of social care services

Areas of work: Social care

Project leads:
Ruth Thorlby
Holly Holder
Unscheduled acute care in London: mapping models of care and understanding the impact of quality...

Areas of work:
Workforce
Hospital care
Quality of care

Project leads:
Candace Imison
Matt Gaskins
Sílvia Machaqueiro
Louella Vaughan
Uses of predictive risk adjustment in the NHS

Areas of work:
Commissioning
Research methods & information tools

Project leads:
Dr Martin Bardsley
Theo Georghiou
Workforce productivity and technology

Areas of work:
Workforce
NHS Finances and Efficiency

Project leads:
Candace Imison
Sophie Castle-Clarke

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