Last year the Chancellor announced £22.6bn in extra NHS funding as a ‘down payment’ on the much-anticipated 10-Year Health ...

Responding to the Spending Review, Nuffield Trust Senior Policy Analyst Sally Gainsbury said: “The spending announced for the ...

One of the biggest challenges facing the NHS is that more patients are experiencing delayed discharges – whereby someone is deemed medically fit to leave hospital but is not yet discharged. Reversing ...

There were, on average, 83,000 people in prison in England and Wales at any one time last year, yet relatively little is known about prisoners’ physical health care needs; how and why they access ...

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 ...

The NHS in England is facing a new normal of sickness absence in hospitals and community services having seen a 29% jump in the most recent calendar year compared with the year before the pandemic (an ...

While the Chancellor’s recent Spring Statement made no immediate tax and spend commitments, it did suggest that, depending on progress with the government’s debt/deficit reduction goals, there might ...

Since the pandemic there has been a 30% increase in the number of people paying out of their own pocket for hospital care across the UK’s four countries, with the starkest rise being a tripling of ...

Following on from our 2022 report looking at the health landscape six years on from Brexit, this report aims to look deeper at key trends we identified in the supply of products needed for health, the ...

Virtual wards are remote services which help patients to manage their health and care at home. There is currently a national policy push in England towards virtual wards being developed for a range of ...

The seismic changes to the relationship with our nearest neighbours and the impact of Brexit have only added fuel to the fire of severe challenges facing health and social care in the UK today, making ...