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11 January 2017

Elections on the horizon in Northern Ireland

The deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, Martin McGuinness, resigned on Monday 9 January. If the Sinn Féin party don’t nominate a replacement, that does mean an election.

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11 January 2017

A&E waiting times: better or worse?

More patients are being seen within four hours at A&E departments, but the percentage of visits processed within that time has been falling.

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9 January 2017

How many patients die from thirst or starvation?

Roughly one patient every three or four days died as a direct result of malnutrition or dehydration in NHS and non-NHS hospitals in England and Wales across 2015.

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9 January 2017

Public satisfaction with the NHS

Data from 2017 doesn’t necessarily tell us much about public perceptions of the NHS this winter, still less its actual performance.

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6 January 2017

Age, motherhood and the gender pay gap

We’ve seen evidence that the pay gap gets bigger when women become mothers, but they don’t seem to have a clear advantage before then.

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6 January 2017

Not all of Britain’s lawyers are “raking it in”

The legal sector turned over £32 billion in 2015, up on previous years, but that’s not connected with government legal aid.

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6 January 2017

House building in England

Our overview of the supply and demand for homes in England.

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21 December 2016

Health tourism: what's the cost?

The government has previously estimated that "health tourism" costs the NHS around 0.3% of NHS spending allocated to specific services.

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19 December 2016

Intercepted evidence can’t be used in court

Concern that a new surveillance law permits prosecutors to lie in court about evidence from intercepted communications is misplaced.

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15 December 2016

Best laid plans... for reducing the deficit

The deficit did fall while the Coalition was in power, but not by as much as originally planned.

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