Community services are under growing strain, with more than 1.1 million people waiting for care, and the steepest rise among children and young people. Focus to date has largely been on efforts to…

The government has been locked in a dispute with pharmaceutical companies for a number of months over how much the NHS pays for new branded medicines. Sally Gainsbury and Huseyin Naci set out the issu...

NHS continuing health care provides funded health and social care support for people with very complex needs outside hospital. Yet our comprehensive new report shows this system is highly inconsistent...

As we today publish our new research on NHS continuing health care (CHC), in this Q&A we speak to Sharon Allen OBE, who is the Chief Executive of the Arthur Rank Hospice Charity. Sharon has experience...

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With the NHS 10 Year Plan now published, Becks Fisher says the plan is rightly ambitious and contains much to like. But plans should be judged on their delivery, and this one’s undoing could be whether there’s enough funding to meet the scale of its ambitions.

General practice funding is inequitable: the Carr-Hill formula, which decides the distribution of funding, is outdated and fails to take account of socioeconomic deprivation.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 i...

Now that assisted dying is likely to become a reality in England and Wales, the debate on how that happens must begin: what organisations and staff will deliver it, what systems will be needed to ensu...

With hopes for the far-reaching impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on health care remaining as strong as ever, the NIHR Rapid Service Evaluation Team have conducted a review of the literature on…

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…

Debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories.

With the news today that NHS England will be abolished, Mark Dayan and Leonora Merry look at how far things have changed since NHSE was created 12 years ago.

Supporting people at the end of life is a crucially important element of public spending, yet there is remarkably little evidence available on how much money is being spent on it, and what that money ...

Supporting people at the end of life is a crucially important element of public spending, yet there is remarkably little evidence available on how much money is being spent on it, and what that money ...

Our new report today with the Health Economics Unit, commissioned by Marie Curie, is the most comprehensive analysis of public spending costs at the end of life for over a decade. In this accompanying...

The NHS workforce has gone through shifts and rebalances of roles since the service began, driven by changing needs as much as financial constraints and staff shortages. In recent years there has been...

Attempts to shift care "from hospital to home" have repeatedly faltered. This free event will explore what we can learn from the experience of other countries and what it will really take for this gov...

Once a destination for generations of shoppers, department stores are on the decline. But community businesses are repurposing vacant department stores and ...

Worrying signs in A&E for October but we are likely to avoid a repeat of the 2022 nightmare winter

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