C-sections are a common procedure in maternity care, but higher rates of emergency caesareans can be a sign of systemic ...

But, while it’s really important that patients have access to high quality information about NHS performance, there are ...

Mortality rates from liver disease in the UK have increased at least four-fold since the start of the 1970s, even if most ...

Commenting on the latest monthly NHS performance statistics, Nuffield Trust Deputy Director of Research Sarah Scobie said: “Today’s statistics are a stark reminder that despite the continued hard work ...

Emergency admissions, where patients are admitted to hospital urgently and unexpectedly (i.e. the admission is unplanned), are unpleasant experiences for patients and costly for healthcare providers.

Previous research has suggested that using AI to support diagnoses of lung diseases and cancer using x-ray or CT scans could improve speed and accuracy of diagnosis. There are also claims it could ...

Aaliyah joined Nuffield trust as an intern in 2025 has an interest in R, other quantitative analysis tools and health inequality. Aaliyah studies medicine at the University of Cambridge, were she also ...

Governments have been trying to reduce waiting times for planned consultant-led hospital care, sometimes called referral to treatment (RTT) waiting times, for decades. The NHS’s target is to see 92% ...

There is growing public recognition that care workers have long faced a formidable number of challenges. These include low pay, poor terms and conditions, hugely variable access to training, and ...

How are services being provided and has access changed? The latest annual statement from QualityWatch presents a range of key statistics to show how the ability of the state to provide quality social ...