Recommendation: The Voluntary Assisted Dying Commissioner for England and Wales will need to be given the funding it needs for a secretariat, data access, and expert support. Policymakers should set ...

Across the UK, there has been a shift over time towards fewer people dying in hospital and more people dying at home, which ...

Following yesterday’s chart on the variation in where people die across the UK, this chart from Sarah Scobie and Stuti Bagri ...

As the country deals with the easing of lockdown restrictions and a slow decline in Covid-19 cases, health services are attempting to return to some form of pre-pandemic normality – yet demand for ...

The integration of health and social care has been a long-standing policy priority in each country of the UK. However, there is limited evidence these policies are delivering the results expected of ...

This report looks at Scotland’s unique health care system, and explores how other parts of the UK might be able to learn from it.

Covid-19 has highlighted many issues in the social care system in the last year, but providers of these vital services are still often ignored. This report highlights the systemic problems with the ...

The seismic changes to the relationship with our nearest neighbours and the impact of Brexit have only added fuel to the fire of severe challenges facing health and social care in the UK today, making ...

It is generally acknowledged that small, rural NHS health care providers face higher costs than larger, urban areas. For a number of years the NHS has adjusted financial allocations to account for ...

It is widely known that prisons in England are crowded and facing severe difficulties, but the health and health care use of the prisoners within has received little attention. Drawing on over 110,000 ...

Community pharmacy needs to adapt to meet the needs of a changing population at a time of unprecedented challenge for health and care in England. The Nuffield Trust and The King's Fund were ...

This research report is drawn from a 15-month study of large-scale general practice organisations in England. The study examined the factors affecting their evolution and their impact on quality, ...