How can communities and public services work together to help people to stay healthy? Ruth Robertson looks at Greater ...

A social care support threshold freeze since 2010/11 means that some people must spend an additional £12,400 of their own ...

Nurse prescribing might not be an area of social care that one often hears about – I certainly had not heard about it before I started researching it. Nurse prescribers are registered nurses who have ...

This paper describes a co-ordinated service delivery model – the ‘house of care’ – that aims to deliver proactive, holistic and patient-centred care for people with long-term conditions. It ...

We need to move away from a system just focused on diagnosing and treating illness towards one that is based on promoting wellbeing and preventing ill health. Our report sets out a new vision for ...

What impact will 'Fit for the Future: The 10 Year Health Plan for England' have for people, patients, staff and the health and care system? We analyse the key areas of the government's plan.

People who sleep rough have some of the worst health outcomes in England. We explore how four local areas are delivering effective health and care services to people sleeping rough and what other ...

This question changed in 2021. In previous years the question specified social care provided by local authorities. In 2021 the reference to local authorities was removed and instead the question asked ...

Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Dr Mary Docherty is a Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust ...

This report considers the potential of place-based partnerships to improve population health and support truly integrated care, and highlights principles to guide their development and the support ...

The policy context Throughout the history of the NHS, a series of policies have sought to strengthen and co-ordinate services outside hospitals. The levers used to do this have often been structural ...