“Today’s figures offer fresh insight into just how pressured things are in the health service as it braces itself for another tough winter. “The next few months look to be particularly demanding in ...

“After over a decade of constrained funding, NHS finances prior to this Budget were perilous. The funding promised today will meet the health service’s immediate day-to-day needs, but will not stretch ...

In his first speech as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Wes Streeting declared that "the NHS is broken". Here we collect some of our essential reading to diagnose and shape the change ...

Commenting on excerpts trailed ahead of the Secretary of State’s speech to the NHS Providers conference, Nuffield Trust Chief Executive Thea Stein said: “It is right that politicians are focused on ...

The drumbeat of pre-budget speculation is a familiar rhythm for the NHS. It is not unusual for the Treasury to want to leak out rumours of an NHS settlement early: at well over a third of total ...

Responding to the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services' (ADASS) Autumn Survey, Nuffield Trust Deputy Director of Policy Natasha Curry said: “Last week saw the social care sector ...

A week before the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves delivered her first budget, the Nuffield Trust published analysis showing that the NHS in England was facing £4.8bn worth of unfunded cost ...

The NHS in England is heading for an unfunded overspend of £4.8bn this financial year, meaning that next week the Chancellor will need to grow the overall health budget by at least 3.6% just to manage ...

Responding to the Care Quality Commission’s latest State of Care Report, The state of health care and adult social care in England 2023/24, Nuffield Trust Deputy Director of Policy Natasha Curry said: ...

As the Chancellor puts the final touches to this week’s budget, anxiety within and around the social care sector mounts. In amongst the myriad calls on a finite pot of money, will social care be heard ...

The Secretary of State launched a public consultation on the English NHS’s new 10-year plan last week with the words that the health service is “broken, but not beaten”. But if it is broken, it is not ...