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

District nurses, who provide care to people in homes all over the country and operate all hours of the day, are fundamental ...

Government plans to move more NHS care into the community and out of hospitals won’t be achievable unless action is taken to address the dire state of district nursing, with an estimated one in four ...

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 ...

Since the pandemic there has been a 30% increase in the number of people paying out of their own pocket for hospital care across the UK’s four countries, with the starkest rise being a tripling of ...

The NHS is encouraging more innovation in service delivery, in part to reduce avoidable ill health and demand for care, particularly for people with long-term and/or multiple conditions. Many of these ...

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 ...

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.

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% ...

Virtual wards are remote services which help patients to manage their health and care at home. There is currently a national policy push in England towards virtual wards being developed for a range of ...

Changes to Employer National Insurance Contributions announced last month look set to cost the adult social care sector over £900m next year, more than wiping out the extra funds allocated to social ...