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

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% ...

At the centre of this month’s 10 Year Health Plan for England are two explicit political concerns. The first is the spectre of a middle-class opt-out from the NHS, leading to a loss of electoral ...

Thea Stein is the Chief Executive of the Nuffield Trust. She took up the post in September 2023. Thea was previously Chief Executive at Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust, and before then Chief ...

High levels of hospital bed occupancy are an important indicator of a health system under pressure. Hospitals cannot operate at 100% occupancy, as spare bed capacity is needed to accommodate ...

Shorter cancer waiting times can lead to earlier diagnosis, faster treatment, lower risk of complications, enhanced patient experience and improved cancer outcomes. A review of NHS Access Standards ...

In July 2017, NHS England announced a new set of performance targets for the ambulance service. The new standards are set out in the addendum to the Handbook to the NHS Constitution. The redesigned ...

As the assisted dying Bill returns to the House of Commons next week, this in-depth analysis offers evidence from a wide range of contexts to further inform the debate. What can the UK learn from ...

Mark Dayan is Brexit Programme Lead at the Nuffield Trust, working on the implications of leaving the European Union and of trade agreements for the NHS, life sciences and social care. Mark has also ...

Understanding how good health and social care services are for the people using them is one of the most important aspects of health care research and analysis, and with the NHS under historic levels ...