Natasha Curry responds to the publication of the Covid Inquiry report on the impact of the pandemic on the adult social care ...

The publication this week of the Covid Inquiry’s sixth module exposed once more the fragility of social care going into the ...

While much of the noise around the latest round of NHS reform is about abolishing NHS England and the promise of neighbourhood health teams, there has been little scrutiny about the central role that ...

The authors raise concerns about the strength of the evidence underpinning the DHSC’s estimate of average health care costs for IHS payers, which is used to determine the surcharge rate. This suggests ...

The latest figures from Skills for Care, published this week, paint a broadly familiar picture of the social care workforce. While vacancies appear to be stabilising, reliance on overseas staff ...

A few years ago, as Chief Executive of Leeds Community Healthcare Trust, I met with a local MP who wanted to know what I planned to do about our growing waiting lists for autism and ADHD assessments.

Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the prison population has shrunk by approximately 6%, from just under 83,000 people in March 2020 1 to around 78,000 people in March 2021 2 – the smallest it ...

Focus On: Social care for older people by Sharif Ismail, Ruth Thorlby and Holly Holder, tracks a period of real-terms reductions in Government revenue allocations to local authorities, who provide ...

This briefing uses evidence from hospital data over the 10-year period from 2009/10 to 2018/19 to look at the increase in emergency admissions for young children, aged under five, and to explore some ...

How are services being provided and has access changed? The latest annual statement from QualityWatch presents a range of key statistics to show how the ability of the state to provide quality social ...