As the government prepares to publish a new 10-year NHS workforce plan, questions remain about how to build a realistic and ...

Changes in British Society The decade opened and closed with Labour in power and the NHS in financial crisis, in spite of the greatest increase in expenditure the NHS had ever seen. The economy was ...

Across the four counties of the UK, integration of health and social care has been a policy priority driven by the needs of a population that is living longer and with more long-term health conditions ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stillbirths, neonatal mortality, and infant mortality are common measures of healthcare quality and the safety of maternity services, but they are also influenced by social, economic and environmental ...

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, ...

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 ...

This is the first in a new series from the Trust looking at each of the four health services of the UK in a detailed and qualitative way, while asking what lessons they hold for the other countries.

Governments have been trying to reduce waiting times for planned consultant-led hospital care, sometimes called referral to treatment (RTT) waiting times, for decades. The NHS’s target is to see 92% ...

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 ...