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 ...

“This report lays bare the extent of the huge pressures facing almost every part of the health and care system. In particular ...

The government has been locked in a dispute with pharmaceutical companies for a number of months over how much the NHS pays for new branded medicines. Sally Gainsbury and Huseyin Naci set out the ...

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% ...

At the centre of this month’s 10 Year Health Plan for England are two explicit political concerns. The first is the spectre of a middle-class opt-out from the NHS, leading to a loss of electoral ...

The notion that the health service has emerged as a “winner” from the Chancellor’s Spending Review is a bit like congratulating someone who has just won back the face value of a scratch card. It ...

Responding to the Spending Review, Nuffield Trust Senior Policy Analyst Sally Gainsbury said: “The spending announced for the NHS exemplifies the dilemma faced by a government boxed in by anaemic ...

District nursing services provide care for patients and support for family members in the community, with common treatments including wound management, diabetes management, leg and pressure ulcer ...

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 ...

Over the past decade younger NHS staff have reported lower job satisfaction, higher stress levels, and greater dissatisfaction with pay than their older colleagues, according to this new analysis of ...

Responding to plans to reform elective care for patients in England, Nuffield Trust Chief Executive Thea Stein said: “Today’s plan to tackle the NHS waiting list shows the government is serious about ...