In April 2017, the House of Lords Select Committee on the Long-Term Sustainability of the NHS concluded that the biggest internal threat to the sustainability of the NHS is the lack of a comprehensive national strategy to secure the NHS and care system the workforce it needs. This briefing, and its two s...
Health care is labour intensive, regardless of the nature of the health system, its structural
characteristics, levels and sources of funding, or political underpinnings. The effective
delivery of care requires decisions to be made about how much funding to allocate to
staffing and what mix of skills to ...
The Health Foundation, an independent health care charity, was asked by
the Secretary of State for Health to review indicators of the quality of general
practice in England. We looked at how they could be made better to support
improvements to care, including how they are selected and presented.
Within t...
