Future proof: The impact of parental and caring responsibilities on surgical careers
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...
Dying well at home
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...
Government data sharing during the pandemic
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...
Crumbling foundations
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...
COSMO – Health impacts and behaviours
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...
The NHS crisis: Does the government have a plan?
This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at the government’s claims for why the NHS crisis is happening and the effect of its response. The government’s emergency measures to support the NHS will likely be too little and too late to solve this winter’s crisis. The report evaluates the government’s claims...
Independent health care and the NHS
This report from UK think tank The King's Fund looks at the role of the independent sector in providing health care. Discussion around the role of the independent sector in providing health care often focuses on the ‘privatisation’ of the NHS. Private providers have always played a role in the NHS, and while there was...
Vacci-nation: A case study in health and prosperity
This report from UK think tank IPPR looks at how the UK can move ahead on vaccines, by harnessing the role of innovation and a wider range of public institutions. The Covid-19 vaccination has again demonstrated the value of vaccines – to lives, livelihoods, and national prosperity. Despite that success, it is imperative that the...
Health and Brexit: six years on
This report from UK think tank the Nuffield Trust examines the effects of the UK's exit from the EU on our healthcare system. 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...
Strategies to reduce waiting times for elective care
This report from UK think tank The King's Fund looks at he strategies that have been used to reduce waiting times in England in the past 20 years. In the face of record high waiting times for elective care, we undertook research to understand the strategies that have been used to reduce waiting times in...