For a healthier nation, we must solve UK poverty
Campbell Robb, Chief Executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, writes about the link between poverty and health in our latest Healthy Lives blog series.
Campbell Robb, Chief Executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, writes about the link between poverty and health in our latest Healthy Lives blog series.
To improve care for people with long-term conditions, our sectors must come together more often, listen better and learn from one another, write Jo Bibby and Kieron Boyle.
Dr Rebecca Fisher, a GP and Policy Fellow at the Health Foundation, considers what the data can’t tell us about winter pressures on the NHS.
The Welsh government has protected its NHS budget in recent years, despite a reduction in overall funding for devolved services, but people are increasingly struggling to get access.
NHS 111 was set up as a helpline for urgent medical concerns and receives a growing number of calls – over 15 million every year. As we highlighted in an earlier analysis, a frequent criticism of NHS ...
Our Assistant Director of Policy, Ruth Thorlby, looks back at how the health and care service has been surviving this season’s extra pressures, and where action is needed now in advance of next winter...
Last week’s announcement by Jeremy Hunt contained some important steps forward, but the challenges outside the NHS will need to be addressed too to make progress towards the Medication Without Harm go...
How might Brexit affect our health? John Middleton, President of the Faculty of Public Health, explains how the cross-party ‘do no harm’ amendment to the EU (Withdrawal) Bill could help protect public...
Natalie Lovell, one of the authors of What makes us healthy? An introduction to the social determinants of health, writes about distilling such a big topic into a quick guide.
What matters to those amazing nurses that work in our NHS? Pay? Somewhat, but when it comes to what motivates them, one thing is clear: it’s not all about the money. Prior to the recent announcement o...