After Baroness Casey called for a moment of reckoning for social care similar to what happened for the NHS in 1948, Natasha ...

Responding to the latest monthly NHS performance statistics, Nuffield Trust Deputy Director of Research Sarah Scobie said: “Today’s data shows the NHS has made real progress in February and March to ...

The women’s health strategy, which has been published this week, includes an aim to improve healthy life expectancy in the ...

Health and social care play a central role in the ongoing electoral campaign for the Scottish parliament. One in two Scots (50%) believe that these issues are among the most important facing Scotland ...

With the 2026 Senedd election in Wales coming up, Malina Bodea, Mark Dayan and Camille Oung look at the state of health and social care in Wales since the last election five years ago, and assess how ...

With the 10-year health plan criticised for lacking detail on how the litany of initiatives and ideas within it will be ...

Even before the Covid-19 pandemic reached the UK in January 2020, the drive for the NHS to make better use of digital technology had already started to take centre stage, with the government placing ...

This research draws on an extensive literature review to assess the realism of the narrative that moving care out of hospital will save money. It explores five key areas: elective care, urgent and ...

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 are some 342,300 nurses working in NHS hospital and community health services, and 23,900 working in general practice. 1 Yet vacancies are widespread: there were 39,000 full-time equivalent ...

Unpaid carers play a crucial role in providing essential care for people who need help because of ill-health, frailty, disability, a mental health condition or an addiction. This care, provided by ...

The Nuffield Trust was commissioned by NHS Employers to examine how best NHS staffing can be reorganised to support new ways of delivering care to patients. The authors conducted a survey of local ...