Pei Li Ng and Raj Mehta discuss the findings from a new NIHR RSET paper on embedding patient and public involvement and ...
Heightened competition for specialty training posts – the final training stage before becoming a GP or consultant – has ...
Nuffield Trust Chief Executive, Thea Stein, responds to new annual statistics from NHS England on dental activity and the ...
The Information Commissioner's Office decided last month that the Department of Health and Social Care can continue to ...
The Health Bill involves historic changes in how patient data is used at the front line, and the largest restructure of the English NHS since 2012. MPs should scrutinise these changes closely: health ...
The workforce challenges currently facing the health service pose a threat to the delivery and quality of care over the next 10 years. In advance of the NHS's workforce implementation plan later this ...
With a new Prime Minister, social care has firmly been placed on the political agenda. After decades of inaction, it appears we now have a real opportunity to shift the dial on reform. Although yet to ...
The private finance initiative (PFI) is a way of funding public capital projects – such as NHS hospitals – using private sources of money to pay for the upfront costs of their design, build and ...
In March, Baroness Casey called for a ‘moment of reckoning’ for social care, noting it has lacked the design moment that the NHS had in 1948. Instead, it has evolved in a piecemeal way, layered with ...
Stillbirths, neonatal mortality and infant mortality are important measures of healthcare quality and the safety of maternity services, but they are also influenced by social, economic and ...
New analysis of 1.6 million births in England reveals that one in five women use emergency care services in the year after giving birth – with stark inequalities rooted in deprivation, ethnicity and ...