C-sections are a common procedure in maternity care, but higher rates of emergency caesareans can be a sign of systemic ...

Thea Stein responds to the introduction of quarterly rankings for all NHS trusts in England. Responding to the introduction ...

Mortality rates from liver disease in the UK have increased at least four-fold since the start of the 1970s, even if most ...

Changes in British Society The decade opened and closed with Labour in power and the NHS in financial crisis, in spite of the greatest increase in expenditure the NHS had ever seen. The economy was ...

Commenting on the latest monthly NHS performance statistics, Nuffield Trust Deputy Director of Research Sarah Scobie said: “Today’s statistics are a stark reminder that despite the continued hard work ...

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

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% ...

There is growing public recognition that care workers have long faced a formidable number of challenges. These include low pay, poor terms and conditions, hugely variable access to training, and ...

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How are services being provided and has access changed? The latest annual statement from QualityWatch presents a range of key statistics to show how the ability of the state to provide quality social ...

Following on from our 2022 report looking at the health landscape six years on from Brexit, this report aims to look deeper at key trends we identified in the supply of products needed for health, the ...