More people are now seeking help for common mental health conditions, as well as for ADHD and autism. But are more people experiencing mental ill health? Sarah Scobie takes a closer look.

With the Employment Rights Act receiving royal assent yesterday, the Fair Pay Agreement for social care proposed within it ...

As the government makes changes to how local government works and how it is funded, Camille Oung takes a closer look at those ...

Thea Stein responds to the government’s proposals to improve dental care for people with the most urgent needs.

With growing numbers of children in the UK living in poverty, this guest blog looks at how welfare reforms may affect child health. The authors describe the findings of a review into children's dental ...

Mandy Cheetham is an Assistant Professor at Northumbria University.

Sarah Scobie responds to the latest NHS performance data and the weekly winter situation report. Commenting on the latest ...

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 – ...

The government has been locked in a dispute with pharmaceutical companies for a number of months over how much the NHS pays for new branded medicines. Sally Gainsbury and Huseyin Naci set out the ...

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 ...