UK life expectancy is among the lowest relative to comparable countries. Veena Raleigh asks whether the 10 Year Health Plan’s ...

The country desperately needs a prevention revolution, and this government should make good on its promise to deliver one, ...

Following the pandemic, the NHS waiting list – although large – is still not as high as once anticipated. While good news, ...

With shrinking budgets but increasing demand, neighbourhood health needs to find radical ways to meet local needs. Adam Lent ...

In the near future, the government will once again release league tables of hospital trusts. How helpful will they be when ...

tackle the biggest risk factors affecting people’s health. This briefing focuses on how to improve access to out-of-hospital care, including GPs, social care, community services and community mental ...

In a new blog, Danielle Jefferies, Senior Analyst at The King’s Fund, writes: “Whether NHS trust league tables will be helpful to the public is questionable, because hospital performance is not as ...

The 10 Year Health Plan has a lot riding on it. The government has been saying for the past year that the NHS is broken, backed by an investigation in 2024 by Lord Darzi that comprehensively ...

This explainer was updated on 3 September 2025. It was previously updated on 17 June 2022 and originally published in February 2020. Health inequalities are avoidable, unfair and systematic ...

The Enhancing the Healing Environment (EHE) programme has encouraged and enabled nurse-led teams to work in partnership with patients to improve the environment in which they deliver care. The EHE ...

This explainer looks at provider collaboratives in England, the opportunities they provide and the unresolved questions to consider when thinking about their role in the changing health and care ...