Following recent press speculation that the UK may soon agree to pay more for drugs used within the NHS as part of a trade ...

As the ongoing Covid Inquiry turns its focus to the social care sector, and with social care in desperate need of ...

As the Hallett Inquiry turns its focus to social care this week, this blog draws on a set of interational case beinng ...

Women spend more years of their life living in poor health than men, including through their working years. This QualityWatch ...

The Nuffield Trust is an independent health and social care think tank. We aim to improve the quality of health and social care in the UK by providing evidence-based research and policy analysis and ...

“People living in poorer areas get sicker younger, but general practice is under-funded and there are fewer GPs in deprived ...

The number of overnight general and acute beds fell by 8% between Q1 2010/11 and Q4 2019/20, from 110,568 to 102,194. Over the same period, the number of occupied general and acute beds decreased by 5 ...

The length of time patients spend in A&E before admission, transfer or discharge depends on the type of A&E unit they visit. In the past, minor A&Es (types 2 and 3, such as single specialty ...

Camille joined the Nuffield Trust in January 2019 as an academic placement and now works as a Fellow, following a period as a Researcher. In her time at the Trust, Camille has undertaken a wide range ...

Background. 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 ...

It is widely known that prisons in England are crowded and facing severe difficulties, but the health and health care use of the prisoners within has received little attention. Drawing on over 110,000 ...

Key points . As of mid-2021, the vacancy rate for nurses was 10%, equivalent to 39,000 full-time posts. Nurses from outside the UK or EU are more likely to remain in the NHS as a whole than nurses of ...