Government plans to move more NHS care into the community and out of hospitals won’t be achievable unless action is taken to address the dire state of district nursing, with an estimated one in four ...

District nurses, who provide care to people in homes all over the country and operate all hours of the day, are fundamental ...

“This report lays bare the extent of the huge pressures facing almost every part of the health and care system. In particular ...

The UK government’s 10 Year Health Plan for England has three big shifts at its core: hospital to community, analogue to digital and sickness to prevention. Central to the first of these is a ...

Children are facing unacceptably long waits for NHS community services that deliver care closer to home, including for paediatric services that help children with developmental problems or ...

Responding to the Skills for Care ‘State of the Sector and Workforce’ report, Nuffield Trust Deputy Director of Policy Natasha Curry said: “There are some positive signs in today’s findings, with the ...

The new 10 Year Health Plan for England promises to shift more care from hospitals into the community, but history shows how hard this ambition is to deliver. This new report looks to Denmark and ...

The Nuffield Trust holds a neutral position on the ethical question of whether or not assisted dying should be legalised, for whom, and in what circumstances. We are committed to identifying evidence ...

Governments have been trying to reduce waiting times for planned consultant-led hospital care, sometimes called referral to treatment (RTT) waiting times, for decades. The NHS’s target is to see 92% ...

The decision of resident doctors – qualified medical practitioners in postgraduate training – in England to strike has intensified the interest in their pay. To provide independent analysis on the ...

At the centre of this month’s 10 Year Health Plan for England are two explicit political concerns. The first is the spectre of a middle-class opt-out from the NHS, leading to a loss of electoral ...

With a new pay offer for NHS staff announced this month, the Nuffield Trust shared analysis of real terms changes to resident (junior) doctors’ pay at the request of the Sunday Times. The chart is an ...