“People living in poorer areas get sicker younger, but general practice is under-funded and there are fewer GPs in deprived ...

Women spend more years of their life living in poor health than men, including through their working years. This QualityWatch ...

Covid-19 brought perhaps the most dramatic shift in general practice since the dawn of the NHS, with hundreds of millions of requests and appointments shifting to the telephone or to apps. As the ...

Background. In July 2017, NHS England announced a new set of performance targets for the ambulance service. The new standards are set out in the addendum to the Handbook to the NHS Constitution.The ...

The length of time patients spend in A&E before admission, transfer or discharge depends on the type of A&E unit they visit. In the past, minor A&Es (types 2 and 3, such as single specialty ...

The number of people with a formal diagnosis of dementia in England increased from 427,176 in December 2022 to 498,221 in December 2024. As of December 2024, individuals over 65 years old made up 97% ...

Key points . As of mid-2021, the vacancy rate for nurses was 10%, equivalent to 39,000 full-time posts. Nurses from outside the UK or EU are more likely to remain in the NHS as a whole than nurses of ...

The latest instalment from our project monitoring the effects of the UK's exit from the EU on our health care system finds the clearest evidence yet that Brexit and its changing relationships with ...

The seismic changes to the relationship with our nearest neighbours and the impact of Brexit have only added fuel to the fire of severe challenges facing health and social care in the UK today, making ...

Perceptions of care work as low skilled continue to persist, despite the pandemic highlighting just how vital care workers are. In recent years there has been increased debate around the ...

The report finds that equipping the existing non-medical workforce – NHS nursing, community and support staff – with additional skills is the best way to develop the capacity of the health service ...