Health & social care explained

The health and social care systems are large and complex. This page provides a useful starting point if you're interested in finding out more but are not sure where to begin.

Data story

This series of interactive charts illustrates key data on health care spending, hospital activity, performance, prescribing, and NHS staffing and other resources, for England and the rest of the UK where comparable data is available.

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Source:

Office of Health Economics (2012)

Spotlight

QualityWatch is a major research programme providing independent scrutiny into how the quality of health and social care is changing over time.

Comment

Data story

Here we examine 10 of the most commonly heard untruths you might hear about our health service in the run up to the 2015 election.

Explainer

Sally Gainsbury examines some of the most commonly cited figures about NHS finances, and explains what they really mean.

Comment series

In this series experts from the Nuffield Trust give their take on the data and evidence behind some of the current perceptions of what is happening with the NHS.

Spotlight

Big changes lie ahead for the UK following its vote to leave the EU. No part of society will remain unchanged, including the health and social care sector. Below is a collection of resources about how Brexit might impact the NHS.

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Report

This report assesses the performance of the NHS on the quality of patient care in all four UK countries since devolution.

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Download the summary [PDF 1.4MB]

Spotlight

The performance of the Labour-led NHS in Wales has been a highly politicised subject in recent years. This spotlight brings together a collection of our analysis on the Welsh health service's performance and funding.

We create a wide range of charts and infographics on key issues relating to both the health care and the social care sectors. Many of the charts from our publications our also available in interactive form.

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