Facts and figures on staffing numbers in the NHS in England.

Organising sustainable health and care.

The health workers facing racist abuse from their patients.

This report explores public satisfaction with the NHS and social care in 2025. 26% of British adults were satisfied with how the NHS runs – a statistically significant 6 percentage point increase from...

Health Policy and Politics Network (HPPN) Spring event 2026 registration. Please select your registration fee and if you wish to join us for the conference

The 25th German Conference for Health Services Research will take place from 23. to 25.09.2026 in Cologne.

Based on interviews with local leaders, our report explores the development and evolving role of ICSs in England, and the policy changes needed to help deliver their objectives.

Organising sustainable health and care.

Organising sustainable health and care.

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Across primary care, corporate actors are gaining influence,1,2 which reflects a broad corporatisation of health care: “the general trend throughout the healthcare industry towards higher levels of in...

Is there the political will to fix the US health horror stories?

In this second report on the global state of patient safety (the first was published in 2023), Norway is still number one in the ranking, with the UK 21st out of 38 OECD countries.

There has been considerable hype about the transformative potential of AI across many domains of society. Hetan will consider the promise and pitfalls of AI in health, and how we should think about

Grounded in human capital theory, this study explores whether the presence of professional leaders, such as doctors on hospital governing boards, positively influences the organizational workforce....

There is global interest in integrated care, often associated with how to improve system efficiency, strengthen clinical and cost-effectiveness, avoid…

Human Resource Management (HRM) research focused on social care is sparse. This gap is surprising given the scale of the social care workforce in many countries, its vital role in meeting the increas...

The special issue will offer a grounded and balanced view of how emerging technologies can improve, but also complicate healthcare work.

The PAC is the latest to sound the alarm, comparing the Government's reforms to HS2. And there are signs that the public is growing impatient and not seeing improvements

Doubts about the performance, value and conduct of healthcare managers continue to stir public debate. In the UK, the denigration of NHS managers as an unproductive, bureaucratic overhead is a longsta...

In 1985, Arber and Sawyer described the discretionary rationing power of general practice receptionists. Our paper revisits this territory. Much has changed in the intervening decades. Digitalisation...

Traditional management practices have long prioritized organizational performance and financial growth, primarily serving shareholder interests. However, escalating societal and environmental challen...

Since it was first published more than 40 years ago, The New Politics of the NHS has become established as the key overview of the NHS, its processes and its paths of influence, providing a clear, eas...

Background In the English National Health Service, and other health care systems internationally, there have been growing numbers of doctors working on a short- or long-term temporary basis as ‘locu...

Purpose. The purpose of this paper is to go beyond assumptions of “objective” transparency in data reporting within healthcare systems by examining forms of resistance among general practice providers...

Over recent decades, the exchange of health innovations between high-income countries (HICs) and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has grown significantly. Three main types of cross-border flow...

Reliable information, tougher advertising standards, and international collaboration are needed to mitigate the risks of overseas cosmetic procedures, write Neil Lunt and Jessica Roberts UK resident...

You are invited to submit a paper for the Organisational Behaviour in Health Care (OBHC) Conference 2026.

Purpose. The purpose of this paper is to go beyond assumptions of “objective” transparency in data reporting within healthcare systems by examining forms of resistance among general practice providers...