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 ...

Note: this explainer was updated in September 2026 and first published in February 2022. Since this explainer was first published, health and care organisations have continued to face significant ...

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 ...

Productivity is one way people measure the performance of a sector – it compares the growth in the quantity of outputs to the growth in the quantity of inputs. Different bodies measure health care ...

As we launch a new programme of work on improving children’s health, Lillie Wenzel outlines three priorities that will really make a difference.

This report reviews the role and objectives of payment systems in the English NHS, focusing on Payment by Results (PbR), which accounts for around 30 per cent of the total English NHS budget. It also ...

The reconfiguration of clinical services continues to generate public and political controversy, locally and nationally. Given significant financial and workforce constraints, now and in the future, ...

Despite having a diverse workforce, ethnic minority staff in the NHS continue to experience worse levels of bullying and a lack of opportunities for career progression. This report looks at how three ...

Our experts take a closer look at the new neighbourhood health framework: the opportunities, the gaps, and the hard questions about capacity, priorities and national alignment.