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

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

Covid-19 brought perhaps the most dramatic shift in general practice since the dawn of the NHS, with hundreds of millions of requests and appointments shifting to the telephone or to apps. As the ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in the adoption of digital technology in the NHS and changes to the way services are delivered at an incredible pace. So as the health service works hard to get back ...

The recent plan for digital health and social care has reaffirmed NHS goals around digital transformation, taking account of the pandemic and the significant role that digital technology can play in ...

Our Health and International Relations Monitor project, supported by the Health Foundation, tracks issues that are important for the delivery of health and care in the UK to understand how our ...

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 ...

Is good-quality health care being provided for women in prison? As the government proceeds with plans to build 500 more prison places for women, this new Nuffield Trust analysis uses HES data to look ...

People who provide care unpaid for a family member or a friend due to illness, disability, or mental health provide a vital role bridging gaps in state-funded support. But despite the laudable policy ...

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 ...

The Health and International Relations Monitor project, supported by the Health Foundation, explores how the dramatic changes to the UK’s international relations following Brexit have affected health ...