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 ...

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 ...

There were, on average, 83,000 people in prison in England and Wales at any one time last year, yet relatively little is known about prisoners’ physical health care needs; how and why they access ...

This new research, which was funded by the Health Foundation, underlines the challenges and risks women in prison face because of barriers to accessing health and care services. All prisoners have a ...

Across the four counties of the UK, integration of health and social care has been a policy priority driven by the needs of a population that is living longer and with more long-term health conditions ...

Since the pandemic there has been a 30% increase in the number of people paying out of their own pocket for hospital care across the UK’s four countries, with the starkest rise being a tripling of ...

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 ...

The NHS is under significant pressure this winter. The new year saw daily newspaper headlines on the winter crisis, while high rates of bed occupancy and cuts to social care are both causing extra ...

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 ...

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: ...

Why are the 2023 findings important? The BSA survey results enable us to see long-term trends in public satisfaction with the NHS and social care services. In the current social-political-economic ...