Following the recent announcement of changes to the top of NHS England, Nicholas Timmins and Professor Sir Chris Ham take a ...

Does a neighbourhood health service mean different things to different people? Chris Naylor argues that there needs to be a common understanding of what the goal is.

If to govern is to choose, then the government needs to clearly define and prioritise its goals in order to achieve ...

The increasing cost of paying staff has ultimately led to a fall in the number of people receiving publicly funded long-term care, says a new report from The King’s Fund. Social Care 360 analyses ...

Loading unfunded costs on care providers ultimately leads to fewer people receiving social care support. That’s the key lesson in this year’s Social care 360 review, both for the government and the ...

What was the annual change? The number of new requests for support increased from 2.0 million in 2022/23 to 2.1 million in 2023/24. Requests for support from working-age adults and older people both ...

Local authorities spent similar proportion of money on long-term support for working-age adults (£10.4 billion) and older people (£11.0 billion) in 2023/24, compared with 2022/23. However, the pattern ...

Place-based and neighbourhood approaches to care play an essential role in enabling the health and care system to tackle the growing challenges facing it, and the new government has reinvigorated ...

The vacancy rate is an important indicator of providers’ capacity to deliver social care services. Staffing also affects quality: higher staff-to-bed ratios in care homes correlate with higher Care ...