Huge NHS waiting lists are probably driving growth in the number of patients paying out-of-pocket for hospital care across the UK, a think-tank has said.
Additional funding to maintain and improve the NHS estate would play an important role in improving performance and productivity and stop staff working around a huge backlog, researchers have said.
Sporadic funding at the onset of Covid-19 following a decade of underinvestment left social care with an “array of weaknesses” that hampered services during the pandemic, researchers have said.
Plans to halve proposed funding to revitalise the social care workforce show the government is not serious about improving and investing in the sector, experts have said.
As many as 90,000 care workers will be needed immediately to fulfil social care manifesto commitments to expand and reform social care, a charity has said.
The NHS infrastructure plan identifies critical issues with the NHS capital funding but more solutions are needed from government, writes Nuffield Trust’s Nigel Edwards.
Three health charities have said that plugging a £1.9bn social care funding gap is a more urgent priority than boosting funding for the NHS in this month’s Autumn Statement.
Cuts to adult social care have left the system increasingly unable to meet the needs of the older people who depend on it, with the funding gap set to reach at least £2.8bn by the end of the decade,...
Waiting times in the NHS are continuing to deteriorate and are unlikely to improve amid financial pressures in the health service, an analysis by the Nuffield Trust and The Health Foundation has...
The Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill is moving quickly through parliament, but its implications for the NHS remain unclear. These are some of the key issues that need to be considered.
General practice is in need of both more money and significant reform if it is to meet the challenge set out by NHS England in its Five Year Forward View, according to the Nuffield Trust.
The health reforms were meant to create a fast-track, patient-centred service. Rising waiting times and A&E admissions – and confusion over GP commissioning and care funding – suggest...
With huge changes to NHS structures and culture, it’s an exciting time to be working in health policy. Nigel Edwards, the new chief executive of the Nuffield Trust thinktank, talks to PF about...
