The King’s Fund reports councils are draining reserves to cover rising adult social care costs, boosting care access but ...

In a rapidly changing landscape, does the health and care system have the analytical capability it needs – and a plan to ...

What is Social care 360? People often complain about the lack of data in social care. In fact, there’s a significant amount, but it is held in databases that are rarely explored and analysed together.

What was the annual change? Due to a change in the data source and methodology, it is not possible to compare the number of requests for 2024/25 with previous years. In 2024/25, there were 2.0 million ...

It is time to think differently about health and social care. Although good progress has been made in improving NHS performance in the past decade, the health and social care system faces ...

Why is this indicator important? Although total expenditure is not a perfect proxy for the amount and quality of care arranged by local authorities, it is currently the best overall indicator ...

This was originally published on 29 October 2025. It was updated 2 April 2026 following the publication of the Neighbourhood Health Framework. The government has put a ‘neighbourhood health service’ ...

The number of places in residential and nursing homes (collectively called ‘care homes’) is an important measure of social care capacity and usage. However, it is only a partial measure because social ...

‘Previous experience shows that a focus on cutting costs makes collaboration – key to strategic commissioning – harder’ Lillie Wenzel It appears that ICBs’ role as commissioners will be the main ...

The 10 Year Health Plan is hugely ambitious in scope, and its success depends on robust and strategic workforce planning, with clearly defined actions and responsibilities at local, regional and ...

What we did We wanted to understand the development of ICSs through the eyes of people involved in the workforce agenda, exploring the successes and challenges they have encountered in attempting to ...

Our experts dissect the NHS planning guidance for 2026/7 to 2028/29.