Poor oral health, in the form of tooth decay, can at best be unpleasant and at worst all-consuming. For children, its consequences include having difficulties with sleeping and eating, school absences ...

District nursing is a critical component of community health services. In our chart of the week, Billy Palmer explores the ...

As the assisted dying Bill returns to the House of Commons next week, this in-depth analysis offers evidence from a wide range of contexts to further inform the debate. What can the UK learn from ...

Commenting on the Prime Minister’s announcement that NHS England is to be abolished, Nuffield Trust Chief Executive Thea Stein said: “Today’s news will be devastating for staff at all levels of NHS ...

“Comparing changes to pay at the same point in time, using different measures of inflation, also results in very different ...

General practice funding is inequitable: the Carr-Hill formula, which decides the distribution of funding, is outdated and fails to take account of socioeconomic deprivation. This briefing, produced ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Global supply problems have caused a “shock rise” in shortages of life-saving drugs like antibiotics and epilepsy medication, new research reveals today. These shortages come at a cost to the patient ...