As the Hallett Inquiry turns its focus to social care this week, this blog draws on a set of interational case beinng ...

As the ongoing Covid Inquiry turns its focus to the social care sector, and with social care in desperate need of ...

Women spend more years of their life living in poor health than men, including through their working years. This QualityWatch ...

“People living in poorer areas get sicker younger, but general practice is under-funded and there are fewer GPs in deprived ...

Covid-19 brought perhaps the most dramatic shift in general practice since the dawn of the NHS, with hundreds of millions of requests and appointments shifting to the telephone or to apps. As the ...

The number of overnight general and acute beds fell by 8% between Q1 2010/11 and Q4 2019/20, from 110,568 to 102,194. Over the same period, the number of occupied general and acute beds decreased by 5 ...

Background. In July 2017, NHS England announced a new set of performance targets for the ambulance service. The new standards are set out in the addendum to the Handbook to the NHS Constitution.The ...

The length of time patients spend in A&E before admission, transfer or discharge depends on the type of A&E unit they visit. In the past, minor A&Es (types 2 and 3, such as single specialty ...

Screening can detect early signs of cancer in people who are not experiencing symptoms. Early detection is important because treatment is more likely to be successful with improved chances of survival ...

Rates of hospital admission as a result of self-harm in children and young people are considerably higher for children and young people between the age of 15–19 than children aged 10–14 years and ...

The number of people with a formal diagnosis of dementia in England increased from 427,176 in December 2022 to 498,926 in April 2025. As of April 2025, individuals over 65 years old made up 97% of all ...