Responding to Baroness Amos’ report from the National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation, Nuffield Trust Deputy Director of Research, Sarah Scobie said: “Years of decline in maternity care have left ...

Last year the Chancellor announced £22.6bn in extra NHS funding as a ‘down payment’ on the much-anticipated 10-Year Health Plan. This briefing, which sets out the state of health care funding in ...

The NHS published its first long-term workforce plan in 2023, which detailed plans to grow the workforce while also retaining more staff, reform ways of working, and improve workplace culture. While ...

Screening can detect early signs of cancer in people who are not experiencing symptoms. Early detection is important because treatment is more likely to be successful with improved chances of survival ...

Cancer survival is one of the key measures of the effectiveness of cancer services. Survival rates capture not only how well the healthcare system can detect the disease but also whether people have ...

Shorter cancer waiting times can lead to earlier diagnosis, faster treatment, lower risk of complications, enhanced patient experience and improved cancer outcomes. Since October 2023 the NHS has had ...

One measure of ambulance services is the time it takes from receiving a 999 call to a vehicle arriving at the patient's location. Under the system, all calls are triaged into four categories according ...

High levels of hospital bed occupancy are an important indicator of a health system under pressure. Hospitals cannot operate at 100% occupancy, as spare bed capacity is needed to accommodate ...

The four-hour A&E waiting time target is a pledge set out in the Handbook to the NHS Constitution. The operational standard set in 2010 stated that at least 95% of patients attending A&E should be ...

Dementia is a general term to describe a range of conditions which result in deterioration of a person’s mental abilities, including reasoning, remembering, problem-solving, decision-making and ...

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) uses cancer survival rates as indicators of the quality of care provided by healthcare systems, together with cancer screening and ...

A decade ago to the day, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. Mark Dayan looks back at the 10 years since ...