There are a number of bodies conducting research and publishing information on the NHS. Here you can find links to some of the most prominent.

government bodies
regulators/ professional bodies/ unions
patient bodies
academic institutions/ think-tanks
medical journals/ periodicals

• Department of Health


• Department of Health - Junior Doctors Guide to the NHS


• Communities and Local Government


• NHS Choices
  List of Strategic Health Authorities
  List of Primary Care Trusts
  List of NHS Trusts / NHS Foundation Trusts
  List of Special Health Authorities


• NHS Networks


• NHS Evidence


• NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement


• Office of the Strategic Health Authorities


• House of Commons Health Committee


• House of Commons Public Accounts Committee


• Deaneries


• Medical Schools

• Care Quality Commission


• Monitor (Foundation Trust regulator)


• National Insitute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)


• National Patient Safety Agency


• Health Protection Agency


• National Audit Office - Health


• Audit Commission - Health


• Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence


• General Medical Council


• Nursing and Midwifery Council


• NHS Confederation


• NHS Employers


• The Royal Society of Medicine


• The Royal College of Physicians


• The Royal College of Surgeons of England


• The Royal College of General Practitioners


• The Royal College of Nursing


• British Medical Association


• NHS Alliance


• Managers in Partnership


• Unison

• Patients' Association


• Patient Opinion


• iwantgreatcare.org

• London School of Economics - Health and Social Care


• London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - Health Services Research Unit


• Institute for Healthcare Improvement


• University of Birmingham - Health Services Management Centre


• Cambridge University - Judge Business School


• Imperial College Healthcare


• University of Manchester - National Primary Care Research Centre


• University of York - Dept of Health Sciences


• Havard Business School


• World Health Organisation


• OECD- Health


• European Observatory on Health Systems (LSE)


• The Commonwealth Fund


• Atlas Economic Research Foundation


• Civitas: Institute for the Study of Civil Society


• The King's Fund


• The Nuffield Trust


• Health Foundation - QQUIP


• IPPR


• Reform


• Policy Exchange


• Demos

• The Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
  
  
• British Medical Journal
  Student BMJ


• The Lancet
  The Lancet Student


• New England Journal of Medicine


• British Journal of General Practice


• Health Service Journal


• Pulse


• Healthcare Republic


• healthpolicyinsight.com


• BBC News - Health


• Financial Times - Health


• The Times - Health


• The Guardian - Health


• The Daily Telegraph - Health


• The Independent - Health


• Wall Street Journal - Health


• New York Times - Health

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