Health and care
Our research assesses the performance of health and care services and how to improve them.
Public Services Performance Tracker
Fixing public services: The NHS
Labour's NHS commitments are likely to require more spending. But recent spending increases have not generated commensurate performance improvements.
Performance Tracker 2023: General practice
Despite a declining workforce, GPs are delivering more appointments than ever, though this may be increasing workloads and burnout.
Performance Tracker 2023: Hospitals
Despite more funding and higher staff numbers, hospitals are struggling to return to pre-pandemic performance levels.
Performance Tracker 2023: Adult social care
The government has provided more funding, but the sector may struggle to address unmet need in the face of rising costs and competing priorities.
Our analysis
Enabling Integrated Care Systems to work better
Most of the money that flows to the NHS now goes through ICSs.
Delivering a general practice estate that is fit for purpose
The next government must urgently modernise old and cramped NHS GP buildings.
Funding health care in England
The NHS’s recent travails have led once again to claims that the model is “broken” and that the answer is to change how health care is funded.
The NHS productivity puzzle
The NHS crisis will only be solved with capital investment, increasing management capacity and staff retention – not just more doctors and nurses.
Adult social care: Short-term support and long-term stability
The government's plan won't turn around adult social care performance.
The NHS crisis: Does the government have a plan?
The government's NHS crisis response is likely too little and too late for this winter.
Devolved public services
Since their creation in 1999, the devolved governments have chosen to fund and run public services in very different ways.
How to fix the funding of health and social care
A parliamentary inquiry is likely to be the best way to secure long-term funding for health and social care.
Devolution and the NHS
In the UK, the NHS is the umbrella term for the four health systems of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
NHS pay
Nurses and most other NHS staff were “offered” a 1% pay rise by the government. But how are decisions about NHS pay made?
UK Health Security Agency
What is the UK Health Security Agency (UKSHA)? What does it do? How is it organised?
Fixing public services: The NHS
Labour's NHS commitments are likely to require more spending. But recent spending increases have not generated commensurate performance improvements.
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Latest comments
The government is pushing the NHS further and faster on elective recovery
The prime minister and health secretary have set their sights on the elective waiting list.
Baroness Casey should ignore her remit if she wants to improve social care
The government did not need another review, but its chair can still drive real change.
The government is directing more investment to the most deprived councils
The government is embarking on the long journey of trying to end the crisis in local government finance.