With Yvette Cooper announced this week as the new Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Thea Stein and Leonora Merry argue she will need to be realistic and honest about what is real progress ...
Thea Stein responds to the new Prime Minister’s comments on social care and the announcement of a new Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.
A new Nuffield Trust report shows that around one in five mothers attend A&E in the year after they give birth, while 6% have ...
Where should the line fall between individual and state responsibility for social care costs? This resource details how 11 countries and regions approach cost-sharing, offering policymakers a ...
New analysis of 1.6 million births in England reveals that one in five women attend A&E in the year after giving birth – with stark inequalities rooted in deprivation, ethnicity and pre-existing ...
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 ...
As Andy Burnham takes office, Britain seems set to enter a new era of policymaking with devolution and localism as defining themes. In his first major speech as Prime Minister, Burnham promised to ...
General practice funding is inequitable: the Carr-Hill formula, which decides the distribution of funding, is outdated and fails to take account of socioeconomic deprivation. This briefing, produced ...
While much of the noise around the latest round of NHS reform is about abolishing NHS England and the promise of neighbourhood health teams, there has been little scrutiny about the central role that ...
Last September, the government unveiled new league tables ranking every NHS provider. When I raised concerns that they could drive gaming rather than genuine improvement, and that they wouldn't help ...
Fifty years ago this Sunday (20 March 1972), Archie Cochrane delivered his seminal lecture “Effectiveness and Efficiency: Random Reflections on Health Services” in the Biochemistry Lecture Theatre of ...