This report from UK think tank Civitas provides a comparison of global health systems and how the UK fares. A major new comparison of global health systems places the UK second to bottom across a series of major health care outcomes, including life expectancy and survival rates from cancer, strokes and heart attacks. This comparative...

This report from UK think tank IPPR introduces their new Commission on Health and Prosperity. Covid-19 has been the most significant health shock in modern history. So far, the pandemic has cost 180,000 lives across the UK, and millions continue to experience ongoing disruption to their lives. In 2020, Covid-19 also caused the largest fall...

This report from UK think tank the Adam Smith Institute looks at how safer smoking alternatives can level up health and tackle the cost of living crisis. This paper argues that the Government can reduce health inequality and boost incomes by accelerating the adoption of safer smoking alternatives. By accelerating the adoption of safer smoking...

This report from UK think tank the Social Market Foundation looks at introducing a statutory levy on the gambling industry to be overseen by a new board. This paper makes the case for introducing a statutory levy on the gambling industry, to be overseen by a new independent board led by the Department of Health...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at lessons for public bodies from the pandemic response in health. Leadership in a crisis like the pandemic must come from bodies across the public sector, not just from the centre of government. This requires ministers doing more to understand how arm’s-length bodies (ALBs)...

This report from UK think tank HEPI looks at how higher education institutions might approach illicit drug use within their student populations. In this HEPI Debate Paper, Arda Ozcubukcu and Professor Graham Towl explore how higher education institutions might approach illicit drug use within their student populations, suggesting that a zero-tolerance approach may cause more...

This report from UK think tank IPPR looks at a crossroads in England's health and social care systems and outcomes. England has a number of new health and care leaders, who stand at a defining crossroads. The pandemic has rapidly accelerated an existing trend of decline in access and outcomes. This is creating the conditions...

This report from UK think tank IPPR looks at creating a post-pandemic world of healthier work. That work determines health has been impossible to ignore during a pandemic. People in ‘working class jobs’ have been around twice as likely to die from Covid-19 than those in ‘middle class jobs’. And those in the lowest paid...

This report from UK think tank the Nuffield Trust looks at a comparison of healthcare integration policy and progress across the four countries of the UK. Across the four counties of the UK, integration of health and social care has been a policy priority driven by the needs of a population that is living longer...

This report from UK think tank Civitas examines the NHS Workforce Race Equality Standard and calls for it to be "wound up". The NHS seeks to monitor and control diversity and equality through a programme known as the Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) – it is based on a series of statistical indicators pertaining to...