As the government prepares to publish a new 10-year NHS workforce plan, questions remain about how to build a realistic and ...

Responding to the latest monthly NHS performance statistics, Nuffield Trust Deputy Director of Research, Sarah Scobie said: “Public satisfaction with the health service has plummeted in recent years, ...

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 ...

Following on from our 2022 report looking at the health landscape six years on from Brexit, this report aims to look deeper at key trends we identified in the supply of products needed for health, the ...

There were, on average, 83,000 people in prison in England and Wales at any one time last year, yet relatively little is known about prisoners’ physical health care needs; how and why they access ...

The seismic changes to the relationship with our nearest neighbours and the impact of Brexit have only added fuel to the fire of severe challenges facing health and social care in the UK today, making ...

While the Chancellor’s recent Spring Statement made no immediate tax and spend commitments, it did suggest that, depending on progress with the government’s debt/deficit reduction goals, there might ...

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 ...

Backlogs in NHS care and long waiting times in England are widespread, and politicians, policymakers and the public are well aware of this. But headline numbers obscure important distinctions, and ...

Low pay for care workers is a key factor among the problems that beset the social care sector. The case for reform is strong, but as yet there is no national policy dedicated to improving wages in the ...

In this extensive report, the Nuffield Trust, the Health Foundation, The King’s Fund and the Institute for Fiscal Studies have joined forces to assess, using a range of metrics, how health system ...

We are still some way off knowing the full impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, but it is clear that it has required massive trade-offs that will have lasting consequences for the health and care system.