Health spending, and the performance of the NHS, will feature prominently in the upcoming general election campaign …. Many different factors matter for NHS performance and for the wider health of the population, but one important factor is …

Against a backdrop of increasing demands for health care, the National Health Service (NHS) has long sought ways to … (HCAs) mean that the NHS can deliver more, and higher-quality, care. Increasing staff numbers is a clear policy priority, as … trust characteristics are associated with whether individual staff members decide to leave the NHS acute sector. We use the …

One year ago, NHS England published its plan to tackle the backlog of elective care, which had surged following the … onset of the pandemic. Since then, as widely expected, waiting lists for NHS treatment in England have continued to grow … this report, we examine whether the NHS is on track to achieve the challenging ambitions laid out in its backlog recovery …

The NHS workforce plan aims for a large expansion in health service staffing. We examine the potential implications for … NHS funding. …

The 2020 NHS People Plan committed to providing flexible working opportunities to all NHS staff. An important component … NHS. This report uses the Electronic Staff Record (ESR), the monthly payroll of all staff directly employed by NHS … hospitals in England, to examine the patterns of LTFT working by consultants in NHS acute trusts. We first consider how the …

NHS waiting lists are likely to be a key issue in the forthcoming general election. The current government has made … cutting NHS waiting lists one of its key priorities, while one of the Labour party's five national missions is to "get the NHS … NHS waiting lists (in England, given that health is a devolved responsibility) over the last 17 years - the period for …