With a general election announced for July 4, the NHS and social care are going to feature in the different parties’ ...

New Nuffield Trust analysis shows that the total real-terms funding for NHS-run patient care services has increased by 3.1% a year over the past six years, but this increase has not been applied ...

It’s clear that whoever forms the next government will inherit an NHS workforce in England that has been far from content when it comes to their pay and working conditions, with nurses, consultants ...

Commenting on the Conservative party’s plans to move care closer to people’s homes, Thea Stein, Chief Executive of the Nuffield Trust said: “Moving care closer to people’s homes is absolutely the ...

Although politicians may wish it wasn’t so, the state of the NHS and its need for more resources will be an unavoidable issue during this year’s general election campaign and beyond. Politicians will ...

Responding to 'Labour's first steps to clear NHS backlog in five years', Nuffield Trust Chief Executive, Thea Stein said: “Labour is right to focus on waiting lists, where progress has been slow and ...

The NIHR Rapid Service Evaluation Team’s evaluation of patient-initiated follow-ups (PIFU) led me to spend many weeks with the data, learning to recognise its quirks and test many sets of assumptions ...

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 ...

*This explainer is an updated version of analysis we published in November 2023. There is no right or wrong answer to the question: how much funding does the NHS need? The answer is rather a political ...

NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) is a package of care provided outside of hospital that is arranged and funded solely by the NHS, but provided largely by social care, for individuals over 18 who have ...