With Yvette Cooper announced this week as the new Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Thea Stein and Leonora Merry ...

Thea Stein responds to the new Prime Minister’s comments on social care and the announcement of a new Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.

With Andy Burnham becoming Prime Minister and a national conversation underway about social care, this is a pivotal moment ...

Where should the line fall between individual and state responsibility for social care costs? This resource details how 11 countries and regions approach cost-sharing, offering policymakers a ...

A new Nuffield Trust report shows that around one in five mothers attend A&E in the year after they give birth, while 6% have an emergency hospital admission. Black women, those from the most deprived ...

New analysis of 1.6 million births in England reveals that one in five women attend A&E in the year after giving birth – with ...

Responding to the latest monthly NHS performance statistics, Nuffield Trust Fellow Bea Taylor said: "A&E attendances are ...

This report explores the current and future direction of the independent prescribing workforce in the UK health care system. Independent prescribers are qualified non-medical health care professionals ...

District nursing services provide care for patients and support for family members in the community, including at home, in clinical settings and in care homes. Services are intended to be universal – ...

The government has been locked in a dispute with pharmaceutical companies for a number of months over how much the NHS pays for new branded medicines. Sally Gainsbury and Huseyin Naci set out the ...

NHS continuing health care provides funded health and social care support for people with very complex needs outside hospital. Yet our comprehensive new report shows this system is highly inconsistent ...