After last year’s Autumn Budget added to the financial difficulties already being experienced within social care, Natasha ...

A Bill legalising assisted dying in England and Wales is being debated by the House of Lords. Their decisions will shape what ...

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 ...

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% ...

Recently published data suggests that the most deprived areas of England have twice the rate of deaths involving Covid-19 than the most affluent. But Covid-19 is not unique in this respect: ...

The referendum vote for the UK to leave the European Union in June 2016 marked a watershed in the country’s relations to its neighbours, changing relationships, rules, and the flow of goods and people ...

We are still some way off knowing the full impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, but it is clear that it has required massive trade-offs that will have lasting consequences for the health and care system.

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 ...

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 ...

While the Chancellor’s recent Spring Statement made no immediate tax and spend commitments, it did suggest that, depending on progress with the government’s debt/deficit reduction goals, there might ...

As the government prepares to publish a new 10-year NHS workforce plan, questions remain about how to build a realistic and ...

Virtual wards are remote services which help patients to manage their health and care at home. There is currently a national policy push in England towards virtual wards being developed for a range of ...