Last year the Chancellor announced £22.6bn in extra NHS funding as a ‘down payment’ on the much-anticipated 10-Year Health Plan. This briefing, which sets out the state of health care funding in ...

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

Tooth extractions, largely driven by tooth decay, were the biggest reason why children aged between five and nine in England ...

Since its introduction in 2019, the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme has led to significant changes in the skill mix of the general practice workforce, with a rapid increase in roles such as ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are some 342,300 nurses working in NHS hospital and community health services, and 23,900 working in general practice. 1 Yet vacancies are widespread: there were 39,000 full-time equivalent ...

This briefing explores the impact the pandemic has had on the delivery of rural and remote health services in England, highlighting the underlying challenges faced by these services – and outlining ...

This new research, which was funded by the Health Foundation, underlines the challenges and risks women in prison face because of barriers to accessing health and care services. All prisoners have a ...

The NHS in England is facing a new normal of sickness absence in hospitals and community services having seen a 29% jump in the most recent calendar year compared with the year before the pandemic (an ...