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

Emergency admissions, where patients are admitted to hospital urgently and unexpectedly (i.e. the admission is unplanned), are unpleasant experiences for patients and costly for healthcare providers.

Suicides by people in contact with mental health services are arguably the most preventable. Between 2010 and 2021, over a quarter (26%) of all suicides in the general population were accounted for by ...

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 ...

But, while it’s really important that patients have access to high quality information about NHS performance, there are ...

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

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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% ...

The four-hour A&E waiting time target is a pledge set out in the Handbook to the NHS Constitution. The operational standard set in 2010 stated that at least 95% of patients attending A&E should be ...

As the assisted dying Bill returns to the House of Commons next week, this in-depth analysis offers evidence from a wide range of contexts to further inform the debate. What can the UK learn from ...

The NHS Talking Therapies programme (re-branded from Improving Access to Psychological Therapies in January 2023) was designed to support the NHS in delivering evidence-based talking therapies for ...