Health care workforce The Health Foundation, King’s Fund and Nuffield Trust have published The health care workforce in England.  The briefing sets out the reasons why the long-term plan and supporting workforce strategy must address the urgent and mounting challenges facing the health care workforce.  It will be followed in…

Winter 2018/19 in the NHS: the solutions – Society for Acute Medicine This report calls on the government and NHS leaders to “realise urgently” the potential of ambulatory emergency care. It warns that the NHS is “on borrowed time” as winter approaches but says better use of same-day emergency clinics could…

Demand and capacity models NHS England has published the following demand and capacity models and module which can be used to inform decision making and planning, in supporting delivery of timely care to patients: Core model – suitable for elective services with ‘simple’ pathways e.g. where patients are referred in,…

Health of babies and expectant mothers The Nuffield Trust has published an ‘explainer’ Understanding the health of babies and expectant mothers.  This article looks at the possible reasons why progress on stillbirths and neonatal and infant mortality has slowed down in the UK in recent years and what can be…