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The Nuffield Trust was established in December 1939 as the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust by Viscount Nuffield (William Morris), the founder of Morris Motors.[4] [5] It was set up to coordinate the activities of all hospitals operating outside London and helped inspire the creation of the National Health Service.
The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement (NHS Institute) was a special health authority of the National Health Service in England.It supported "the NHS to transform healthcare for patients and the public by rapidly developing and spreading new ways of working, new technology and world-class leadership".
Nuffield Health is the United Kingdom's largest healthcare charity. Established in 1957 the charity operates 31 Nuffield Health Hospitals and 112 Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing Centres. It is independent of the National Health Service and is constituted as a registered charity. Its objectives are to 'advance, promote and maintain health ...
Interactive timeline of the history of the NHS by the Nuffield Trust; NHS history – From Cradle to Grave, detailed study by Geoffrey Rivett; Celebrating 60 years of the NHS in Scotland; Chronology of NHS reform; The "Matchbox on a Muffin": The Design of Hospitals in the Early NHS (pdf) Celebrating 60 years of the NHS
A number of pioneering moments in medical history occurred at the hospital. Penicillin was first tested on patients on 27 January 1941 [6] and the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology was founded on the site in 1942. [3] The entrance of the hospital was seen in the ITV television series Inspector Morse in 1991. [7]
Nigel Edwards is a health policy researcher. He was Chief Executive at the Nuffield Trust from April 2014 to September 2023, before becoming a Senior Associate. [1]He was formerly an expert advisor with KPMG’s Global Centre of Excellence for Health and Life Sciences, a Senior Fellow at The King’s Fund.
A 2018 study by the King's Fund, Health Foundation, Nuffield Trust, and the Institute for Fiscal Studies to mark the NHS 70th anniversary concluded that the main weakness of the NHS was healthcare outcomes. Mortality for cancer, heart attacks and stroke, was higher than average among comparable countries.
[8] [9] Dixon was then Chief Executive of the Nuffield Trust from 2008 to 2013. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] In 2013 she became Chief Executive of the Health Foundation. Under her leadership, the Health Foundation contributed to a decision by the UK Government to invest an additional £20 billion in the National Health Service (NHS) in 2018 [ 12 ] and is ...