The new child poverty strategy promises the biggest fall in child poverty in decades. Will it also deliver better health for ...

Rates of vaccination are declining in the UK. Against that backdrop, we look at how Gloucestershire ICB has achieved some of ...

The government wants Gen Alpha to be the healthiest generation of children ever, but what about Gen Z? Danielle Jefferies ...

Richard Angell, CEO of the Terrence Higgins Trust, considers the success of opt-out HIV testing in A&E – and what it could ...

Delivering the 10 Year Health Plan won’t be easy. Here’s why workforce planning, accountability and investment in people ...

A recent US study showed one simple intervention resulted in 27% fewer visits to emergency services. Could it work in the UK too?

The Covid-19 pandemic has put the UK health and care workforce under unprecedented pressure. The workforce had been struggling to cope even before the pandemic took hold. Staff stress, absenteeism, ...

The 2010–15 parliament has been a parliament of two halves for the NHS. The first half was dominated by debate on the Health and Social Care Bill (which was largely designed to devolve decision-making ...

It is well known that the NHS is suffering from staff shortages, with 121,000 full-time equivalent (FTE) vacancies and only 26% of the workforce stating there are enough staff at their organisation.

A year can be a long time in politics. Over the past twelve months, the government has made some big calls on health and care funding. Some decisions tightened the purse strings – for example, ...

Greater emphasis on primary and community care is one of the three ‘big shifts’ the Labour government wants to see in the health and care system. In early 2024 The King’s Fund published Making care ...

See the results from the British Social Attitudes survey from 2011 onwards. Since 1983, the National Centre for Social Research’s British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey has asked members of the public ...