A Conservative white paper in 1944 suggested ideas for ‘free’ and ‘comprehensive healthcare – but it was Labour that took the advantage.
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Trafficking victims have contact with the NHS but staff need more knowledge about how to refer them for support.
Five new European studies say dementia occurrence is stable or falling. Our panic may have been unnecessary.
Repeated data panics have left the public in a state of anger and confusion. How does NHS England fix the problem?
Take one mental health issue, then add the label of a disorder, then see if therapists apply their own prejudices.
Making the NHS a seven-day service would intensify the pressure on the groaning social care system.
After all the unsuccessful years of educating us about drinking units, maybe it’s time to start giving the advice in bottles, glasses and pints.
There’s plenty of noise but also some genuine concerns about how the TTIP trade agreement could force healthcare privatisation.
The UK is witnessing its biggest cull of public sector jobs in half a century and hundreds of thousands of workers must make the transition to the private sector.
If the relationship between the government and the medical profession is the ‘politics of the double bed’, then this couple are in a rocky patch.
Discharging hospital patients sounds easy so why do we get it so wrong?
Groups in charge of the NHS budget for your care should be open, but more often than not it’s hard to tell how your where the money is going.
Navigating the welfare system is part of the daily work of most health and social care workers – from the therapists advising patients on how to survive a “fitness to work” assessment to the 30% of NHS…
Declared ‘unachievable’ by a treasury watchdog, the zombie care.data scheme is back and still full of holes.
Spending on temporary staff sparks debate but staff shortages in the NHS means reducing them isn’t a simple solution.
Foreign-born nurses working in the UK do a vital job in the face of discrimination, but their recruitment helps entrench global healthcare inequality.
Keeping taxes lower and protecting the government services most dear to our hearts has huge implications for everyone.
Conservative targets for 1% annual savings in the next two years will actually feel like more than 5% for a swathe of government departments.
Precarious work is just one of the big issues facing NHS staff.
Whether you cheered the election result or were cast into a depression, it doesn’t really matter. The real power lies outside of Westminster, and outside of our control.
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Professor, Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Professor of Cybersecurity, Head of School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
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Associate Professor for Responsible Business, Middlesex University
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Professor of Health Economics, University of York
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Reader in Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
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Professor of Health Economics, Brunel University of London
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Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Leadership and Management, Edge Hill University
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Professor of Health and Social Care, University of Birmingham
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Wellcome Multimorbidity PhD Fellow & Public Health Registrar, University of Glasgow
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Honorary Senior Fellow in Health Service Research, University of Birmingham
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Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
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Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University
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Senior Lecturer, University of Essex; IF Senior Research Associate, Intellectual Forum at Jesus College in the University of Cambridge; Researcher for the Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University, University of Cambridge
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Professor in Economics, City St George's, University of London