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 ...

Background 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 ...

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 ...

Category 1 ambulance calls are those that are classified as life-threatening and needing immediate intervention and/or resuscitation, e.g. cardiac or respiratory arrest. The national standard states ...

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 UK ...