“Today’s figures offer fresh insight into just how pressured things are in the health service as it braces itself for another tough winter. “The next few months look to be particularly demanding in ...

The Nuffield Trust is an independent health think tank. We aim to improve the quality of health care in the UK by providing ...

In his first speech as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Wes Streeting declared that "the NHS is broken". Here we collect some of our essential reading to diagnose and shape the change ...

A week before the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves delivered her first budget, the Nuffield Trust published analysis showing that the NHS in England was facing £4.8bn worth of unfunded cost ...

The Nuffield Trust is an independent health think tank. We aim to improve the quality of health care in the UK by providing evidence-based research and policy analysis and informing and generating ...

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 ...

“After over a decade of constrained funding, NHS finances prior to this Budget were perilous. The funding promised today will meet the health service’s immediate day-to-day needs, but will not stretch ...

As the Chancellor puts the final touches to this week’s budget, anxiety within and around the social care sector mounts. In amongst the myriad calls on a finite pot of money, will social care be heard ...

The Secretary of State launched a public consultation on the English NHS’s new 10-year plan last week with the words that the health service is “broken, but not beaten”. But if it is broken, it is not ...

Responding to the Care Quality Commission’s latest State of Care Report, The state of health care and adult social care in England 2023/24, Nuffield Trust Deputy Director of Policy Natasha Curry said: ...