Independent prescribing is seen as central to NHS plans to shift more care into community settings and better support people ...

Health professionals such as nurses, pharmacists and AHPs who can prescribe medicines, known as independent prescribers, are ...

"Last night’s statement commits the NHS to paying 25% more for new branded medicines, and confirms the weakening of its cost ...

In 2019, the last government pledged to add 50,000 more registered nurses to the NHS in England by 2024/25 – a target that ...

High levels of sickness absence make NHS nurses more likely to leave their role, but long absence periods due to mental ill ...

The Nuffield Trust was commissioned by NHS Employers to examine how best NHS staffing can be reorganised to support new ways of delivering care to patients. The authors conducted a survey of local ...

Governments have been trying to reduce waiting times for planned consultant-led hospital care, sometimes called referral to treatment (RTT) waiting times, for decades. The NHS’s target is to see 92% ...

This research draws on an extensive literature review to assess the realism of the narrative that moving care out of hospital will save money. It explores five key areas: elective care, urgent and ...

The decision of resident doctors – qualified medical practitioners in postgraduate training – in England to strike has intensified the interest in their pay. To provide independent analysis on the ...

Professor Martin Marshall is the Chair of the Nuffield Trust, Emeritus Professor of Healthcare Improvement at UCL and a non-executive director of the Royal Devon University Healthcare Trust. Until ...

This online book is the new home of NHShistory.net. The book traces the story of the NHS, recounting how it was set up, what happened next, and why. It was written by Geoffrey Rivett, and the resource ...