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

While much of the noise around the latest round of NHS reform is about abolishing NHS England and the promise of neighbourhood health teams, there has been little scrutiny about the central role that ...

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 ...

A few years ago, as Chief Executive of Leeds Community Healthcare Trust, I met with a local MP who wanted to know what I planned to do about our growing waiting lists for autism and ADHD assessments.

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.

The UK has had a health system dominated by state funding and state provision for decades. It is seen globally as a defining example of a publicly run health service, and polling shows that this is a ...

New figures show that people born outside the UK account for almost a quarter of all staff working in hospitals and a fifth of all health and social care staff in the UK. [1] [2] Nuffield Trust ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Farzana has been a GP in East London for 18 years and runs her own practice, The Project Surgery. She is the co-chair of the NHS Confederation national PCN Network and a non-executive director of the ...