NHS Providers -
This report, produced in collaboration with the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives and the NHS Confederation, highlights the pivotal role ambulance trusts play in delivering urgent and emergency care and sets out a long term vision for an enhanced role they could take in co-designing this care. It sets out the case for change and includes several case studies that demonstrate the benefits of ambulance services taking this broader approach.
NHS England -
This guidance will support cancer alliances and constituent organisations to adopt consistent, system-wide approaches to managing this diagnostic pathway. It sets out how diagnosis within 28-days can be achieved for the suspected breast cancer pathway. Alongside the pathway itself, resources, including an audit tool, are highlighted to support implementation of the pathway.
Endometriosis UK -
This study (based on a survey of 4,371 people who have received a diagnosis of endometriosis) shows that diagnosis times in the UK have significantly worsened over the last three years, increasing to an average of eight years and ten months, an increase of ten months since 2020. This lengthy wait means a delay in accessing treatment, during which the disease may progress, leading to worsening physical symptoms and a risk of permanent organ damage. The report contains several recommendations for improving diagnosis times.
Social Market Foundation -
Singapore spends less on healthcare than the UK, and achieves remarkable health outcomes. Yet it is often unclear how far these lower costs are due to the design of their healthcare system as opposed to wider societal and cultural factors. This briefing paper focuses specifically on primary care, and argues that Singaporean-style polyclinics and telemedicine could help drive efficiency in the UK, as they have done in Singapore.
Healthwatch England -
Using experiences of care from over 10 million people collected over the past ten years, Healthwatch sets out where they think the NHS should be in six years and how it can get there.
NHS Providers -
In anticipation of the upcoming general election, NHS Providers has published five shared commitments focused on working with the government to deliver the next generation NHS and create a picture of health that is responsive, effective and continuously improving.
Institute for Fiscal Studies -
This report discusses the past and future of NHS waiting lists. It outlines five key facts about past NHS waiting list performance, including pre-pandemic trends, changes during the pandemic and regional variation. It also describes a range of scenarios for what could happen to NHS waiting lists over the next four years under different assumptions.
Health Foundation -
This working paper analyses aggregate national data on virtual wards to describe what virtual wards currently look like across England and discuss the effects of virtual wards on patients, staff and hospital capacity, as well as the gaps in the evidence.
IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science -
This report assesses the trends in new drug launches and the overall number of initiated clinical trials. It also profiles the state of R&D funding and the activity of companies of different types. The results of research are compared to the input effort in a Clinical Development Productivity Index. The notable acceleration and adaptability of the innovation ecosystem is examined in terms of several enablers of R&D productivity, including the relationship between shortening trial durations and the ‘white space’ within clinical development timelines that have been reducing for some diseases and increasing for others. Please note that free registration is required to download the report.
NHS Confederation -
This report outlines how underinvestment – compounded by the impact of an unprecedented pandemic, rising demand and an ageing population – has left NHS and social care services under extreme pressure. This manifesto draws on the views of NHS Confederation members – health and care leaders across England, Wales and Northern Ireland – and sets out the changes the next government will need to make if the health and care system is to be placed on a sustainable footing.