Responding to the Spending Review, Nuffield Trust Senior Policy Analyst Sally Gainsbury said: “The spending announced for the ...

Last year the Chancellor announced £22.6bn in extra NHS funding as a ‘down payment’ on the much-anticipated 10-Year Health ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Opinions and Lifestyle Survey asked adults about symptoms of depression between June 2019 and March 2020, and again in June 2020. Between June 2019 and March 2020, 10% of adults were experiencing ...

There is growing public recognition that care workers have long faced a formidable number of challenges. These include low pay, poor terms and conditions, hugely variable access to training, and ...

Across the four counties of the UK, integration of health and social care has been a policy priority driven by the needs of a population that is living longer and with more long-term health conditions ...

As the NHS emerges from Covid-19 and the biggest shock to its system in its 75-year history, it faces a set of existential challenges: an ageing population in need of ever-more complex care and ...

Even before the Covid-19 pandemic reached the UK in January 2020, the drive for the NHS to make better use of digital technology had already started to take centre stage, with the government placing ...

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 ...

The current focus on integrated care within the NHS is the result of concern about service fragmentation for patients, and in particular a lack of coordination between primary, secondary and tertiary ...

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 ...