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Dave Buck reflects on The King’s Fund’s health inequalities conference and stresses that the government must do more to set ...

In March 2024, the Royal College of Physicians (the College) held an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) of fellows, arranged to debate issues relating to physician associates. Several members of the ...

The vacancy rate is an important indicator of providers’ capacity to deliver social care services. Staffing also affects quality: higher staff-to-bed ratios in care homes correlate with higher Care ...

wider determinants of health, for example, quality of housing. This explainer provides an overview of how health inequalities are shaped and experienced in England’s population. We focus on data up to ...

This paper describes a co-ordinated service delivery model – the ‘house of care’ – that aims to deliver proactive, holistic and patient-centred care for people with long-term conditions. It ...

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Technology plays an increasingly important role in our health and care system. This shift towards technology can, and should, be positive; technology can drive change, facilitating better outcomes and ...