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Spotlight on: Wales

As the Welsh Assembly elections draw closer, explore our collection of our analysis – past and present – on the Welsh NHS.

Blog: Health care and the Welsh elections

The Welsh NHS is at the centre of the campaign for next month’s Assembly elections. But which of the country’s political parties is right about how it is doing?

New analysis: The challenge of change in the NHS in Wales

In a new piece of analysis published exclusively by BBC Wales, Nigel Edwards explores the many complexities behind comparing the health systems of the UK and considers whether recent reports of a failing NHS Wales ring true.

Listen: Nigel Edwards on BBC Radio Wales

Nigel Edwards talks to BBC Wales about the Welsh NHS, covering topics across ambulance waiting times, A&E targets, cancer and operation targets and the impact of social care on hospital flow.

Watch: Health check Wales with BBC Wales

Nigel Edwards, Chief Executive of the Nuffield Trust teams up with BBC Wales to provide an analysis of the performance of the Welsh NHS.

Blog: Welsh admissions in UK hospitals - a borderline debate

Ian Blunt, Senior Research Analyst at the Nuffield Trust, examines the data behind Welsh hospital admissions in English hospitals.

Blog: The truth behind the UK health systems

Andy Mckeon, Senior Policy Fellow at the Nuffield Trust, looks beyond beyond the politics at the truth behind the UK health systems.

Blog: Funding the Welsh NHS for the future

In a guest blog for the Nuffield Trust, Alison Ward, Chief Executive of Torfaen County Borough Council explores NHS Wales finances.

Publication: comparing the four countries of the UK

This report, published by the Nuffield Trust and the Health Foundation, assesses the performance of the NHS on the quality of patient care in all four UK countries since devolution.

Publication: a decade of austerity in Wales.

This report explores the funding pressures facing the NHS in Wales to 2025/26 and options for reducing the funding gap.

Publication: freeing the dragon - improving health in Wales

This report from 1999 – when responsibility for the NHS was devolved between the four UK countries – explores opportunities for developing a health improvement agenda in Wales.

Key charts: comparing the four health systems of the UK

This series of interactive charts illustrate key findings from a major report, joint with the Health Foundation, exploring NHS performance across the UK following devolution.

Five things you need to know about the UK health systems

Our infographic explores five key facts you should know about the UK health systems, taken from our joint report with the Health Foundation: The four systems of the UK: how do they compare?

Chart: Health spending per head by country

This chart compares health spending per person in each of the UK countries and the UK overall, between 2008/09 and 2012/13.

Project finder

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

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  • QualityWatch

    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

    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

    Commissioning
    NHS Finances and Efficiency
    Quality of care
    Project leads:
    Ian Blunt
    Dr Martin Bardsley
  • Cancer patients' use of health and social care

    Older people and complex care
    Research methods & information tools
    Social care
    Project leads:
    Dr Martin Bardsley
    Adam Steventon
  • Commissioning for long-term conditions

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

    Commissioning
  • Developing a patient reported measure of care coordination

    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

    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

    NHS reform
    UK & international comparisons
  • Evaluating Age UK’s Integrated Care Programme

    Evaluation
    Older people and complex care
    Research methods & information tools
    Project leads: Theo Georghiou
  • Evaluating new primary care services in North East London

    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...

    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

    Evaluation
    Integrated care
    NHS Finances and Efficiency
    Project leads:
    Professor Judith Smith
    Matt Gaskins
    Holly Holder
  • Examining the effectiveness of Virtual Wards

    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

    Hospital care
    NHS Finances and Efficiency
    Project leads: Nigel Edwards
  • Funding and performance of health care systems in the four countries of the UK

    NHS reform
    UK & international comparisons
    Project leads:
    Professor Gwyn Bevan
    Professor Nicholas Mays
    Sheelah Connolly
  • General Election 2015

    NHS reform
  • Health leaders survey results: 3

    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

    NHS Finances and Efficiency
    NHS reform
    Social care
    Project leads:
    Ruth Thorlby
    Leonora Merry
  • Identifying priorities for workforce redesign and development

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

    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

    NHS reform
  • Large-scale general practice

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

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

    NHS Finances and Efficiency
    UK & international comparisons
    Project leads:
    Professor Judith Smith
    Ruth Thorlby
  • Medical generalism in smaller hospitals

    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

    NHS reform
  • NHS in numbers: key charts

    Commissioning
    Competition
    NHS Finances and Efficiency
    UK & international comparisons
    Project leads: Sandeepa Arora
  • NHS spending: monitoring expenditure and productivity

    NHS Finances and Efficiency
    NHS reform
    Project leads:
    Andy McKeon
    Sarah Lafond
  • Nuffield Trust Data Lab: exploiting existing information in new ways

    Evaluation
    Research methods & information tools
    Project leads:
    Dr Martin Bardsley
    Theo Georghiou
  • Patterns of care at the end of life

    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

    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

    Competition
    NHS reform
  • Spending Review 2015

    NHS Finances and Efficiency
  • Spotlight on: A&E

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

    NHS reform
  • Spotlight on: Seven-day NHS

    NHS reform
  • Spotlight on: the four countries of the UK

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

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

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

    Commissioning
    NHS reform
    Project leads:
    Natasha Curry
    Holly Holder
  • The Francis Inquiry: Nuffield Trust analysis and resources

    Commissioning
    NHS reform
    Quality of care
    Project leads:
    Professor Judith Smith
    Ruth Thorlby
  • The future of general practice: new models of care

    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

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

    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

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

    NHS Finances and Efficiency
    NHS reform
  • The sustainability of social care services

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

    Workforce
    Hospital care
    Quality of care
    Project leads:
    Candace Imison
    Matt Gaskins
    Sílvia Machaqueiro
    Louella Vaughan
  • Uses of predictive risk adjustment in the NHS

    Commissioning
    Research methods & information tools
    Project leads:
    Dr Martin Bardsley
    Theo Georghiou
  • Workforce productivity and technology

    Workforce
    NHS Finances and Efficiency
    Project leads:
    Candace Imison
    Sophie Castle-Clarke

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