We are so proud of our fantastic Deputy Director of Policy Natasha Curry who has been awarded an MBE in the King’s New Year Honours for services to social care policy. Congratulations Natasha! www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/na...

Northern Ireland faces some of the longest waits for planned hospital treatment anywhere in the UK. There is not only a need for immediate improvement, but for a shift towards keeping people out of hospital and keeping them well. @markgdayan.bsky.social in VIEWdigital. 👇

🆕 What do the changes to local government funding mean for social care? @camille-oung.bsky.social describes what the impact of yesterday’s Local Government Finance Settlement could be for the beleaguered social care sector. www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/co...

Policy Analyst @markgdayan.bsky.social has written for VIEWdigital about the troubles facing the health service in Northern Ireland. Improvement requires political leadership across parties, matched by changes to the system to make services more specialised and efficient. But it won’t be easy.

WEBINAR | How can the government make a success of the abolition of NHS England? This webinar will explore the risks and opportunities associated with abolishing NHS England. @markgdayan.bsky.social @sjanereed.bsky.social @nuffieldtrust.org.uk www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/govern...

Listen to insights from our Policy Analyst @markgdayan.bsky.social on this week's edition of The Briefing Room 👇

📻 Coming up on Radio 4 at 4pm, hear from our Policy Analyst @markgdayan.bsky.social on #TheBriefingRoom. With more strikes planned and a new offer on the table to try to end the dispute, this episode will unpick some of the key issues for resident doctors at the moment.

🆕 As our report with @instituteforgovernment.org.uk looks at the opportunities and risks that come from the decision to abolish NHS England, a blog from @markgdayan.bsky.social argues that the abolition alone can't solve what is wrong at the top of the NHS. www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/sc...

Is scrapping NHS England a good idea? Will it solve problems in the centre? What would Streeting need to do to get the upsides? I argue the key points in brief from our report with @instituteforgovernment.org.uk @sjanereed.bsky.social @becksfisher.bsky.social www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/sc...

NEW REPORT: abolishing NHS England could help simplify accountability, improve prioritisation and create savings. But the change could also lead to increases in policy incoherence and blame culture, as well as the loss of skills, capacity and focus on areas outside the day-to-day NHS.

NEW REPORT: The abolition of NHS England presents a rare opportunity to reset the centre of the NHS, but it carries significant risks. Nuffield Trust and IfG researchers have spoken to experts involved in current and past reforms and assessed historical examples of major restructures.

What effect has leaving the EU had on NHS finances? @markgdayan.bsky.social and @martinmckee.bsky.social have summarised the evidence for @bmj.com. Read the piece👉 www.bmj.com/content/391/... And see Martin's thread👇

Today the CQC has published the State of Care report – its yearly assessment of health and care services: www.cqc.org.uk/publications... The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DOLS) are once again identified as an area requiring urgent action

Reports in @telegraphnews.bsky.social that UK Govt will accept Trump's demands to pay more for medicines - by pledging a % of GDP. That would be another chunk of a dwindling NHS budget already pledged to a very long list of things. What could we get for it? www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

"The white paper’s measures to clamp down on migration, many put into effect on 22 July, could mean at a difficult time for health and care." The government’s immigration crackdown threatens the NHS and social care workforce, write @markgdayan.bsky.social and colleagues www.bmj.com/content/390/...

The Government hopes the new 10 Year Plan can repeat the NHS miracle of the 2000s. But this newer new Labour government has less money, and bigger targets. What can we expect? For @@thehousemag.bsky.social with Siva Anandaciva and ‪@davefinch.bsky.social‬ www.politicshome.com/news/article...

🆕 The #NHS 10 Year Plan - Satisfaction not guaranteed. @markgdayan.bsky.social explores the current context for the government's health plan compared with what happened during the last Labour government. Read via @politicshome.bsky.social @thehousemag.bsky.social

How could Donald Trump force the NHS to spend more on medicines? Is it going to work? Actually, should we want to spend more? @sallygainsbury.bsky.social and I look at these questions after the latest round www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/tr...

Today's vote means assisted dying is likely for England & Wales. It is time to answer the hard questions about how to address concerns through its implementation - and face the gaps in end of life care MPs highlighted Reaction of @sarahscobie.bsky.social 👇 www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/no...

The #NHS is already stretched beyond the financial limit. If it is to spend more on the same medicines in order to save other sectors from tariffs, that reduces the money for healthcare goals - whether that's staff pay, waiting times, or digitisation www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

So what are the takeaways from @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social address to @nhsconfed.org today? 1) a significantly more partnership-based approach to the leadership & staff of the #NHS. Good. They are crucial to delivery of any plan

Our statement notes this may allow councils to keep up with social care demand, but note a lot of this is coming from big assumed council tax rises - 5% a year! Important gradual shift in how we pay for long term care in England, to quite a weird property tax. Nothing for major reform

Ahead of the SR next week, my long read today looks at where the £22.6bn extra cash chancellor Reeves added to health spending in England for this year has gone. A thread >>

TODAY: Policy Analyst @markgdayan.bsky.social‬ will be on You & Yours to provide the evidence on the current state of health care access 🚑 How challenging is it to access NHS care, and how might things change? 📈 Tune in from 12pm on BBC Radio 4. buff.ly/nTpY8cU

🆕 blog on #AI in health care from @markgdayan.bsky.social‬ and @cglobont.bsky.social‬ in @bmj.com‬ today. The UK has decisions to make on AI regulation for medical technology - going our own way may help us get new tech, but would leave some uses unregulated and cement EU barriers. buff.ly/qGi5HgR

The NHS is very skint right now, and has also just had to promise the pharma industry a review on the VPAG scheme from which the public sector was set to rake in massive cashback savings. If Trump has any success driving UK and US prices together, it will really call into question what we can afford

It's not just social care. The pledge to raise thresholds and the end of the Immigration Salary List mean a growing range of #NHS staff roles won't qualify for skilled worker visas. Is the workforce situation healthy enough to be ready for that? assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6821ae...

NEW ANALYSIS explores how approaches to #AssistedDying vary internationally. The Nuffield Trust holds a neutral position on the legalisation of assisted dying in the UK. Our analysis reviews the evidence for jurisdictions where it has been implemented, to help inform debate. 🧵1/9 buff.ly/CTLXDjs

The terms of reference for the Casey Review have been launched today, with a focus on building consensus over tangible recommendations to improve adult social care over the next ten years. A few takes from me and @cglobont.bsky.social .social & @natashacurry.bsky.social: www.gov.uk/government/p...

The NHS is already facing challenges to getting the medicines it needs, and the prospect of US #tariffs only adds a further dimension. A trade deal could offer a way out, but the negotiations would not be without risk. @markgdayan.bsky.social explores the implications in our blog 👇 buff.ly/EIajryr

Do Trump's tariffs pose a threat to UK medicine supplies? Does signing a deal risk reviving the worrying measures the USA pushed for in his first term? I'm saying it's a yes to both, but the situation is controllable with the right actions www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/wh...

NEW BLOG: What do Trump's #tariffs and US-UK trade negotiations mean for the #NHS? @markgdayan.bsky.social explores the possible impact, including on medicines and AI. 👇 www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/wh...

Glad to give a quote with @martinmckee.bsky.social on this excellent @cancerresearchuk.org report laying out post-Brexit barriers to cancer research. With a wider EU-UK thawing we have a chance in the coming months to start doing something about these problems www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

It's probably good that this Secretary of State is leaning away from intervention, but the closure of a single GP surgery or of 7 individual beds being referred to him is *exactly* what we warned would happen and not a sensible way to run a health system www.hsj.co.uk/service-rede...

🆕 Just 1 in 5 people in 2024 said they were satisfied with the NHS according to our analysis of the @natcen.bsky.social #BritishSocialAttitudes survey with @thekingsfund.bsky.social Read report: www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/research/pub... @markgdayan.bsky.social explains more 👇 [1/5]

Really enjoyed this thoughtful conversation with Henry Bonsu on @listentotimesradio.bsky.social - like me and many other people, he and his family have seen the story of migration in the NHS from all sides

Today with @cglobont.bsky.social @tamarahervey.bsky.social and excellent colleagues not on Bsky we publish our final Brexit report on how health and care in the NHS have pulled apart from Europe, and the consequences – funded by @healthfoundation.bsky.social www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/research/hea...

Red list recruitment "is difficult to justify ethically for a still much wealthier country," says report author @markgdayan.bsky.social. “British failure to train enough healthcare staff has been bailed out by those trained overseas.” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Our new analysis out today looks at the deteriorating finances of NHS trusts. NHS trusts consume over 75% of the English NHS budget, so if you want to know how the NHS is coping with its current funding, your starting point should be the doubling of the trust overspend to £1.2bn by March 2024 >>

Great to see analysis and insight from our @nuffieldtrust.bsky.social Senior Fellow Liz Fisher picked up in the London Assembly Health Committee's troubling new report today on the state of dentistry in the capital, and what could be done about it www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/w...

Introducing our #hospitaltohome social care debate, @natashacurry.bsky.social outlined successful models of care in Japan and Germany, who: achieved national buy-in while reframing the importance of social care, ensured sustainable funding, pooled risk and introduced fee schedules for providers.

At our #HospitalToHome event, @sjanereed.bsky.social warns that for all its talk the UK's money is going into inpatient services compared to countries which manage to move patients along faster through limited numbers of beds @nuffieldtrust.bsky.social

The elective care plan is the flagship effort for the government to meet its waits pledge to the British people www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/a-.... But it leaves 5 major points yet to be decided - find out what and when here @theasrstein.bsky.social @sallygainsbury.bsky.social

Good to work on this article w @tamarahervey.bsky.social & @cglobont.bsky.social As the EU and UK negotiate hard bargaining and red lines are inevitable, but there is a moral, legal and political case to put people's health first. We set out what could happen www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/ho...

🆕 With government looking to “reset relationships” with the EU, we explore options for aligning health care policy across data sharing and clinical trials, and the potential negotiation of a new Health Security Treaty. Find out more 👇 https://buff.ly/4gj2lBf

The Devolution White Paper continues some very significant shifts to how England is run. 4 interesting points for the #NHS and social care www.gov.uk/government/p...

#NHS league tables are likely to have unintended consequences and we should be conscious of the problems that similar reforms brought in the 2000s. Read @markgdayan.bsky.social & @nigel-edwards.bsky.social's BMJ piece on the Health Secretary's recent announcements. 👇 www.bmj.com/content/387/...

Wes Streeting's NHS league tables and "zero tolerance for failure" aim to bring back the 2000s glory days. But will they work today? Did they even work then? Nigel Edwards and I surveyed the historic evidence for a new @bmj.com editorial www.bmj.com/content/387/...

🆕 Will the Autumn Budget push the #SocialCare sector beyond breaking point? With many organisations concerned about changes to the Employer National Insurance Contributions regime, we assess what the financial impact on the sector will be. www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/wi...

1: 📢 Our new analysis (www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/wi...) finds that the new budget could cost social care providers £2.8 billion: a thread