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“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 ...

Dental services are organised differently from most other care provided by the NHS. Unlike GP services, patients are not registered with an NHS dentist, and dental practices are not required to ...

After a public consultation was launched last week on the health service’s new 10-year-plan, Mark Dayan looks at what we can learn from previous NHS plans – as well as from other countries – to help ...

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 ...

Among the many headline-grabbing insights from Lord Ara Darzi’s recent report on the NHS was the assessment that “it is unlikely that waiting lists can be cleared and other performance standards ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...