Much of the discussion around NHS waiting lists focuses on how many people are waiting and how long they wait, but less ...

As new analysis this week compares the NHS that Labour inherited in 1997 with the health service in 2024 – both landmark years for the party after coming to power after a long time in opposition – ...

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 ...

Dr Charlotte Paddison left the Nuffield Trust in March 2026. Charlotte's work at the Nuffield Trust focused on improving health and social care. She is interested in models of care for people with ...

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 proportion of doctors accepting NHS specialty training places from the group that includes most overseas-trained doctors has fallen from more than one in four to less than one in 50 (this is the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...