Long waiting times, burnt-out staff and rising inequality. Could a stronger focus on prevention, rather than just treatment, help save the NHS?
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The NHS needs a healthy and resilient workforce to lead the digital transformations planned for the service.
Millions of women live with delayed diagnoses, dismissed pain and inadequate care. Now, progress is at risk of reversal.
Healthcare has not caught up with the disruption caused by the pandemic.
The UK government is set to bring the NHS back under direct political control.
Starmer’s plan to abolish NHS England aligns the health system with more centralised government control.
Ministerial control replaces NHS England as government seeks to cut duplication.
Why the NHS’s ‘brute force’ approach to cleanliness is wrong.
The figure may sound impressive, but it’s actually slower than the usual increase.
Perhaps the UK should adopt the economic principle of ‘polluter pays’.
There is a lot of outrage that the new Alzheimer’s drug donanemab is being refused on the NHS. But there are good reasons for Nice’s decision.
Donanemab will only be available via private healthcare.
England’s opt-out organ donation system aimed to increase the number of donations. But new research reveals the policy has instead led to confusion, complications and a drop in donation rates.
Improving staff morale improves patient care.
The results of much DIY dentistry are nothing to smile about.
A study has shown that the NHS soup and shake diet can help some people beat diabetes – but is it all it’s cracked up to be?
Despite their proven effectiveness in healing chronic wounds, maggot therapy remains underused due to widespread squeamishness.
Wes Streeting, the new health secretary, has his work cut out for him. Here are the biggest challenges he will face.
Labour’s manifesto was largely predicated on economic growth, but the new government faces several problems too serious to wait for growth to kick in.
NHS waiting times has been the hot-button topic of the 2024 general election.
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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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Wellcome Multimorbidity PhD Fellow & Public Health Registrar substack.com/@sociallydetermined, University of Glasgow
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Honorary Senior Fellow in Health Service Research, University of Birmingham
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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