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The Nuffield Trust, formerly the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust, is a charitable trust with the mission of improving health care in the UK through evidence and analysis. The Nuffield Trust is registered with the Charity Commission as charity number 209169, and is a company limited by guarantee registered in England with company number ...
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
Nuffield College, Oxford, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom; Nuffield Trust, a charitable trust based in London, whose aim is to produce analysis and debate on UK healthcare policy; Nuffield Health, a charity operating Nuffield Health Gyms, Hospitals, Medical Centres and Nurseries in the UK
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]
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.
The Cogwheel Report (1967) or Report of the Joint Working Party on the Organisation of Medical Work in Hospitals was the report of a committee appointed by the Ministry of Health and chaired by George Godber to investigate the organisation of doctors in hospitals in England and Wales.
According to a review in the British Medical Journal, "the hero of the book is the randomized control trial, and the villains are the clinicians in the "care" part of the National Health Service (NHS) who either fail to carry out such trials or succeed in ignoring the results if they do not fit in with their own preconceived ideas".