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 ...

“Comparing changes to pay at the same point in time, using different measures of inflation, also results in very different ...

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 ...

The Opinions and Lifestyle Survey asked adults about symptoms of depression between June 2019 and March 2020, and again in June 2020. Between June 2019 and March 2020, 10% of adults were experiencing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Low pay for care workers is a key factor among the problems that beset the social care sector. The case for reform is strong, but as yet there is no national policy dedicated to improving wages in the ...