“This report lays bare the extent of the huge pressures facing almost every part of the health and care system. In particular, it reveals what an uphill struggle the government’s planned shift from ...

The UK government’s 10 Year Health Plan for England has three big shifts at its core: hospital to community, analogue to digital and sickness to prevention. Central to the first of these is a ...

The size of the community care waiting list for children has increased by 58% since data began in 2022, compared with a 23% ...

“There are some positive signs in today’s findings, with the number of social care jobs continuing to increase and vacancies ...

The new 10 Year Health Plan for England promises to shift more care from hospitals into the community, but history shows how hard this ambition is to deliver. This new report looks to Denmark and ...

The Nuffield Trust holds a neutral position on the ethical question of whether or not assisted dying should be legalised, for whom, and in what circumstances. We are committed to identifying evidence ...

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 ...

District nursing services provide care for patients and support for family members in the community, with common treatments including wound management, diabetes management, leg and pressure ulcer ...

The Health and International Relations Monitor project, supported by the Health Foundation, explores how the dramatic changes to the UK’s international relations following Brexit have affected health ...