Commenting on excerpts trailed ahead of the Secretary of State’s speech to the NHS Providers conference, Nuffield Trust Chief ...

“After over a decade of constrained funding, NHS finances prior to this Budget were perilous. The funding promised today will ...

In August 2024, the overall waiting list to start elective (planned) care remained steady compared to July, at 7.6 million. There has been little change to the size of the waiting list since the start ...

Mark Dayan is Brexit Programme Lead at the Nuffield Trust, working on the implications of leaving the European Union and of trade agreements for the NHS, life sciences and social care. Mark has also ...

Backlogs in NHS care and long waiting times in England are widespread, and politicians, policymakers and the public are well aware of this. But headline numbers obscure important distinctions, and ...

Rebecca is a Senior Fellow in Health Policy at the Nuffield Trust and a General Practitioner in Greenwich. She is also an accredited public health specialist. Her current policy interests include ...

Excessive alcohol consumption can have harmful health consequences in the short term but also in the long term, through conditions such as liver disease, stroke and some cancers. Alcohol-related ...

The NHS in England is lagging behind other high-income countries on how quickly it is recovering from the pandemic when it comes to average (median) waiting times for hip and knee replacements. That’s ...