Failures in NHS maternity care have become all too well-known. Ahead of an action plan to address service failures, Sarah ...

The latest figures from Skills for Care, published this week, paint a broadly familiar picture of the social care workforce. While vacancies appear to be stabilising, reliance on overseas staff ...

This new research, which was funded by the Health Foundation, underlines the challenges and risks women in prison face because of barriers to accessing health and care services. All prisoners have a ...

Waiting times for NHS care were understandably a major campaign issue before last week’s election, with the new government inheriting an elective treatment waiting list of around 7.5 million in ...

On Wednesday 30 September, Nuffield Trust Senior Policy Analyst Sally Gainsbury was interviewed by Channel 4 News about the impact of the UK-US pharmaceuticals trade deal on the NHS.

With the Chancellor making further updates to government spending plans and the health service facing crisis on several fronts, there is uncertainty over what the future will hold for health care ...

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 ...

The history of the NHS is filled with examples of changes in professions within the service and the balance between them. In fact, the mix of professions within the NHS has been in flux since its ...

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 ...

This briefing uses evidence from hospital data over the 10-year period from 2009/10 to 2018/19 to look at the increase in emergency admissions for young children, aged under five, and to explore some ...

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 ...

This research report is drawn from a 15-month study of large-scale general practice organisations in England. The study examined the factors affecting their evolution and their impact on quality, ...