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Nursing is the single largest profession in the NHS, but it suffers from substantial staffing shortages. This analysis from Nuffield Trust reflects on the rate at which the health service is losing nurses, and considers the reasons why.
Full detail: Peak leaving? A spotlight on nurse leaver rates in the UK
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With tax cuts high on the political agenda for Conservative party leadership candidates, and inflation fuelling pay rise expectations significantly higher than budgets allow, many will be concerned the NHS will be caught in the crossfire of conflicting demands. This article describes how the health service is already having to deal with Covid, alongside rising levels of demand for care, with substantially less money than before.
Full detail: Is an already tough year for the NHS about to get a lot tougher?
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Throughout the pandemic, politicians and other policymakers have emphasised the need to protect the NHS from collapse or overwhelm: even before Covid-19, the health service struggled to stay above water given worsening capacity, staffing and demand issues, especially during the colder months. This briefing looks at what happened to urgent and emergency hospital care last winter, when another wave of the virus hit the country during a time when it would be stretched to its absolute limits even absent of a pandemic.
Full briefing: Was the NHS overwhelmed last winter?
Ahead of the publication of the health disparities white paper, NHS Confederation members have identified four priorities they hope it will reflect | Nuffield Trust
Full briefing: What do NHS leaders want from the Health Disparities White Paper?
Chart of the week: Where are NHS nurses recruited from? | Nuffield Trust
The government’s pledge to have 50,000 more NHS nurses by 2024 is ambitious, but there has been welcome, significant progress on it at a national level. To February this year, the number of NHS nurses has increased by 25,458 full-time equivalents since the 2019 general election. This equates to almost 1,000 more a month, and is on a par with the rate needed to achieve 50,000 more within this parliament. But where are these nurses coming from? This article takes a closer look.
Full detail: Where are NHS nurses recruited from?
The latest NHS performance data, updated monthly | via Nuffield Trust
This analysis includes the latest data on key activity and performance measures up to March and April 2022, as published by NHS England on 14 April 2022. This includes data on the NHS’s performance against some key targets, including some of those set out in the latest planning guidance, as well as other indicators of patient safety and care.
Key findings:
Full detail: NHS performance summary
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Nuffield Trust | March 2022 | Public satisfaction with the NHS and social care in 2021
NatCen Social Research’s (NatCen’s) British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey has asked members of the public about their views on health and care services. NatCen carried out the most recent survey between 16 September and 31 October 2021 and asked a nationally representative sample of more than 3 000 people about their satisfaction with the National Health Service (NHS) overall, and 1,039 people about their satisfaction with specific NHS and social care services, as well as their views on NHS funding.
Nuffield Trust Public satisfaction with the NHS and social care in 2021: Results from the British Social Attitudes survey
Public satisfaction with the NHS and social care in 2021: Results from the British Social Attitudes survey [news release]
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Nuffield Trust | February 2022 | The long goodbye? Exploring rates of staff leaving the NHS and social care
This analysis from the Nuffield Trust looks at NHS staff before moving to social care, uses figures from the thin-tank’s NHS staffing tracker ,but also draws on wider analysis and research to explore the topic in greater detail.
Nuffield Trust The long goodbye? Exploring rates of staff leaving the NHS and social care
Nuffield Trust | January 2022 | The rise, fall and rise again of NHS staff sickness absences
Each week the Nuffield Trust present analysis of data in chart form to illustrate some key issues and invite discussion. With staff absences in the NHS having been in the headlines recently, Billy Palmer looks at the daily number of staff absent through sickness or self-isolation across NHS acute trusts in England since the start of the pandemic. The numbers are presented as an average across seven days.
Chart of the week: The rise, fall and rise again of NHS staff sickness absences
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The integration of health and social care has been a long-standing policy priority in each country of the UK. However, there is limited evidence these policies are delivering the results expected of them. This report looks at the impact of integration across the four countries and compares the policies and approaches each one has trialed to deliver their goals.
Full report: Integrating health and social care. A comparison of policy and progress across the four countries of the UK
Press release: Benefits of integration of health and social care services across UK countries continues to be over-estimated
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