The King’s Fund says NHS waiting lists are falling, but warns progress is fragile amid strikes, with millions waiting and ...

The King’s Fund reports councils are draining reserves to cover rising adult social care costs, boosting care access but ...

Our experts take a closer look at the new neighbourhood health framework: the opportunities, the gaps, and the hard questions about capacity, priorities and national alignment.

People in the health and care are increasingly coming together across organisational and sector boundaries with the aim of improving people’s health and wellbeing. With growing numbers of people ...

What is Social care 360? People often complain about the lack of data in social care. In fact, there’s a significant amount, but it is held in databases that are rarely explored and analysed together.

It is time to think differently about health and social care. Although good progress has been made in improving NHS performance in the past decade, the health and social care system faces ...

ShiftWorks is our new online learning movement for a just, kind and inclusive health and care workforce, offering members an engaging, digestible and accessible way to develop leadership skills. Join ...

The pattern of quality ratings in April 2024 was very similar to that in April 2023: 4% of services were rated ‘outstanding’, 78% were ‘good’, 16% ‘requires improvement’ and 1% ‘inadequate’. However, ...

Why is this indicator important? Although total expenditure is not a perfect proxy for the amount and quality of care arranged by local authorities, it is currently the best overall indicator ...

What was the annual change? Due to a change in the data source and methodology, it is not possible to compare the number of requests for 2024/25 with previous years. In 2024/25, there were 2.0 million ...

The number of places in residential and nursing homes (collectively called ‘care homes’) is an important measure of social care capacity and usage. However, it is only a partial measure because social ...

We need to move away from a system just focused on diagnosing and treating illness towards one that is based on promoting wellbeing and preventing ill health. Our report sets out a new vision for ...