Rebecca Best draws on her own experience as a midwife to describe how a clash of birthing philosophies can create problems in ...

Poor air quality can affect people’s health, with children especially vulnerable to it. In our chart of the week, Ellie ...

Ellie Bishop was an intern at the Nuffield Trust during the summer of 2024. She recently finished her final year at Queen Mary University, studying a BSc in Biology.

Wes Streeting’s pledge this week to put “crack teams” into hospital operating theatres to “get sick Brits back to health and back to work” may sound like a bit of conference season puff (and one with ...

Thea Stein responds to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care's speech to the Labour conference.

With the subject of assisted dying much debated in recent months, Sarah Scobie describes the main challenges facing ...

Over the last few days there have been many commentators, my organisation included, who have said that this week’s Darzi report is not shocking or surprising, but it is still troubling. I wanted to ...

In his first speech as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Wes Streeting declared that "the NHS is broken". Here we collect some of our essential reading to diagnose and shape the change ...