Community services are under growing strain, with more than 1.1 million people waiting for care, and the steepest rise among ...

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

The government has been locked in a dispute with pharmaceutical companies for a number of months over how much the NHS pays ...

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

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% ...

Social care providers in England have been thrown into the spotlight over the last year as they were hit by Covid-19. But providers of these vital care services are still too often ignored in the ...

Over the past decade younger NHS staff have reported lower job satisfaction, higher stress levels, and greater dissatisfaction with pay than their older colleagues, according to this new analysis of ...

The Rapid Service Evaluation Team is a group of health service researchers from University College London, Nuffield Trust and the University of Cambridge working on an NIHR-funded project to rapidly ...

This briefing explores the impact the pandemic has had on the delivery of rural and remote health services in England, highlighting the underlying challenges faced by these services – and outlining ...

Stillbirths, neonatal mortality, and infant mortality are common measures of healthcare quality and the safety of maternity services, but they are also influenced by social, economic and environmental ...

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 ...

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 ...