This report from UK think tank the Centre for Progressive Policy looks at how the government can improve health and productivity across the population. A new report by the Centre for Progressive Policy (CPP) sets out how the government can improve health and productivity across the population with a focus on health prevention. Our previous...

This report from UK think tank The King's Fund looks at addressing barriers to working with the VCSE sector in integrated care systems. This report provides an overview of the key actions required to tackle barriers and challenges to better partnership working between integrated care systems (ICS) and the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE)...

This report from UK think tank the Institute of Development Studies looks at collecting knowledge gained from our experiences with the Covid-19 health emergency. In May 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that Covid-19 is no longer a health emergency. Now that the world is in this new period of living with the coronavirus,...

This report from UK think tank the Nuffield Trust uses hospital data to look at the health care needs of those older people in prison. Tough conditions in prison disproportionately affect older prisoners, and they tend to be in poorer health than the general population. This new Nuffield Trust research funded by The Health Foundation...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at improving policy making on food and health. This report reveals how every government since 1992 has missed targets to reduce obesity – with the UK’s rising obesity rates harming people’s health and life opportunities, burdening the NHS and damaging the economy. It exposes...

This report from UK think tank The King's Fund looks at how political failure led to the crisis in the NHS and social care. Multi-year funding increases and a series of reforms resulted in major improvements in NHS performance between 2000 and 2010, but performance has declined since 2010 as a result of much lower...

This report from UK think tank IPPR looks at the economic benefits of reducing elective waiting lists in the NHS. The number of people waiting for elective healthcare is at record levels. As well as compelling moral reasons to reduce NHS waiting lists, there is also a convincing economic case to go further and faster...

This report from UK think tank the Nuffield Trust examines results from the British Social Attitudes survey. The Nuffield Trust and The King’s Fund have joined forces again to publish the gold-standard measure of public attitudes and opinions towards the NHS and social care, as surveyed by NatCen during 2022. Public satisfaction with the health...

This report from UK think tank The King's Fund looks at results from the British Social Attitudes survey. The National Centre for Social Research’s (NatCen’s) British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey has been conducted annually since 1983. Each year the survey asks people what it's like to live in Britain and what they think about how...

This report from UK think tank the Fabian Society looks at a new approach to health and wellbeing policy. The evidence is overwhelming: health and wellbeing are not just desirable outcomes in and of themselves, but essential components of a programme for growth, productivity, national renewal and opportunity for all. In this new report, Kim...

This report from UK think tank the Nuffield Trust explores the impact of parental and caring responsibilities on surgical careers. Support for working parents is vital for ensuring staff currently employed by the NHS achieve work–life balance, particularly amidst a workforce crisis driven by poor retention as well as recruitment. The Royal College of Surgeons...

This report from UK think tank The King's Fund looks at commissioning quality end-of-life care. Increasingly people are dying at home rather than in hospital and this trend is set to continue. This raises questions about whether there are the right staff with the right skills to support people in their home at the end...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at lessons from six case studies and other research on government data sharing during the pandemic. During the pandemic, the government created the Clinically Extremely Vulnerable People Service – which required sharing individual address and health information – in a matter of weeks. It...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Progressive Policy looks at the impact of failing public services on health and productivity. New analysis by the Centre for Progressive Policy (CPP) highlights the impact in lost life years and years of good health of socioeconomic inequalities in employment, income, education, crime and housing. It...

This report from UK think tanks The Sutton Trust and CEPEO looks at the incidence of COVID-19 and long COVID among young people. This briefing, from the first wave of the COVID Social Mobility and Opportunities (COSMO) study, explores the incidence of COVID-19 and long COVID among young people, as well as how many young...