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

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 ...

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

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% ...

Students training for nursing, midwifery and nursing associate roles are required to complete hands-on 'practice learning' hours as a part of their qualification. This report, written with the ...

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 ...

Dental services are organised differently from most other care provided by the NHS. Unlike GP services, patients are not registered with an NHS dentist, and dental practices are not required to ...

Please note that views expressed in guest articles on our website are the authors' own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Nuffield Trust. 76 years since its creation, the National Health ...

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 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 ...

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 ...