Performance

Veena Raleigh examines the latest data from OECD (including for the pandemic years 2020 and 2021) to unpack why health outcomes are worse in the UK than in comparator countries.

For as long as the NHS has existed, The King’s Fund has been making recommendations on how it can improve. So, on the 75th anniversary of the NHS we delved into The King’s Fund’s archive to see how much had changed.

Saoirse Mallorie pulls out just five measures to illustrate the mixed bag of findings from our new report, which analyses how the NHS compares to the health care systems of other countries.

What does the recent interest on prevention mean for health policy, and will we see any meaningful action? Dave Buck considers what might be different this time.

With additional funding available to the NHS and social care this winter to address issues around people experiencing delayed discharge, David Maguire explores the costs of these delays.

The latest British Social Attitudes survey shows public satisfaction with NHS and social care services has fallen to a new low. Mark Dayan, of the Nuffield Trust, and Dan Wellings delve a little deeper into this year’s survey results.

Data, including information about excess deaths, played an important role in decision-making during the Covid-19 pandemic. Veena Raleigh looks at why it is important that the methodology behind the numbers is robust.

The latest statistics on elective (non-emergency) care in England are making headlines for all the wrong reasons – the waiting list is over seven million, and over 400,000 have waited more than a year. Why is this? And what can be done about it?  Saoirse Mallorie explores.

As patients wait longer and longer for care, what can be done to reduce waiting times and restore emergency services? Danielle Jefferies argues that action needs to be taken right across emergency and inpatient pathways.

More people are making the choice to opt out of long NHS waiting lists and into private health care provision. Does this matter? Sally Warren explains why she thinks the answer to this question is both ‘yes’ and ‘no’.