“Today’s statistics are a stark reminder that despite the continued hard work of staff, the NHS is still struggling to keep ...

But, while it’s really important that patients have access to high quality information about NHS performance, there are ...

Mortality rates from liver disease in the UK have increased at least four-fold since the start of the 1970s, even if most ...

C-sections are a common procedure in maternity care, but higher rates of emergency caesareans can be a sign of systemic ...

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 ...

Suicides by people in contact with mental health services are arguably the most preventable. Between 2010 and 2021, over a quarter (26%) of all suicides in the general population were accounted for by ...

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 ...

The referendum vote for the UK to leave the European Union in June 2016 marked a watershed in the country’s relations to its neighbours, changing relationships, rules, and the flow of goods and people ...

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% ...

Do you want to help create a better health and social care system through rigorous applied research and expert commentary? The Nuffield Trust is a great place to work – come and join our highly ...

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 ...

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 ...