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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 ...
Tooth extractions, largely driven by tooth decay, were the biggest reason why children aged between five and nine in England ...
As the assisted dying Bill returns to the House of Commons next week, this in-depth analysis offers evidence from a wide range of contexts to further inform the debate. What can the UK learn from ...
Commenting on the Prime Minister’s announcement that NHS England is to be abolished, Nuffield Trust Chief Executive Thea Stein said: “Today’s news will be devastating for staff at all levels of NHS ...
Backlogs in NHS care and long waiting times in England are widespread, and politicians, policymakers and the public are well aware of this. But headline numbers obscure important distinctions, and ...
Low pay for care workers is a key factor among the problems that beset the social care sector. The case for reform is strong, but as yet there is no national policy dedicated to improving wages in the ...
The UK has had a health system dominated by state funding and state provision for decades. It is seen globally as a defining example of a publicly run health service, and polling shows that this is a ...
Since the pandemic there has been a 30% increase in the number of people paying out of their own pocket for hospital care across the UK’s four countries, with the starkest rise being a tripling of ...
Global supply problems have caused a “shock rise” in shortages of life-saving drugs like antibiotics and epilepsy medication, new research reveals today. These shortages come at a cost to the patient ...
Following on from our 2022 report looking at the health landscape six years on from Brexit, this report aims to look deeper at key trends we identified in the supply of products needed for health, the ...
Why are the 2023 findings important? The BSA survey results enable us to see long-term trends in public satisfaction with the NHS and social care services. In the current social-political-economic ...