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 ...

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

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

With the results of the British Social Attitudes survey – published today – revealing there was a statistically significant 6 ...

District nursing services provide care for patients and support for family members in the community, including at home, in clinical settings and in care homes. Services are intended to be universal – ...

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% ...

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 ...

With a new pay offer for NHS staff announced this month, the Nuffield Trust shared analysis of real terms changes to resident (junior) doctors’ pay at the request of the Sunday Times. The chart is an ...

The Health and International Relations Monitor project, supported by the Health Foundation, explores how the dramatic changes to the UK’s international relations following Brexit have affected health ...