The report finds that the NHS is deeply dependent on internationally educated staff. It says one in three doctors were trained overseas, around one in four registrants on the UK nursing register were internationally educated in 2025 and nearly half of new nursing joiners in 2023/24 were...
Race Equality Foundation’s new report reveals how structural racism, insecure work and inadequate sick pay are driving a growing health crisis for Black and Asian workers in the UK.
The Chair of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, Baroness Heather Hallett, has today published her third report which concludes that the UK’s healthcare systems “came close to collapse”. Ultimately it “coped, but only just”.
The report finds that the NHS is deeply dependent on internationally educated staff. It says one in three doctors were trained overseas, around one in four registrants on the UK nursing register were internationally educated in 2025 and nearly half of new nursing joiners in 2023/24 were...
Download Publication Online Reader How to Save the NHS in 1000 Days: Adopting a Dutch-style social insurance model for healthcare sets out a clear and practical roadmap for implementing a new universal healthcare system in England, modelled on the world leading Dutch social insurance model. This builds on the recommendations Policy Exchange made in our 2025 report The NHS – a Suitable Case for Treatment?. Policy Exchange’s proposed reforms are […]
We believe the findings and best practice highlighted in this report offers a pathway to preventing and reducing the mental health crisis facing LGBTQ+ people; and provides a way forward for policy makers.
Methodology for creating workforce estimates How the Workforce Intelligence team estimates the size, structure and characteristics of the adult social care workforce in England. Data downloads Explore the data behind the reports and data visualisations by downloading one of our data files.
This report looks at the democratic implications of the government’s agenda for local government unitarisation under the English devolution and community e
This guidance constitutes the formal planning requirements, national conditions for expenditure and legal framework for the Better Care Fund for 2026 to 2027.
Birth partners are not visitors. A birth partner’s role for the physical and emotional wellbeing and safety of women and birthing people in the hours before and after childbirth is significant.
Based on in-depth interviews with local leaders, our report explores the development and evolving role of integrated care systems in England, and asks what policy changes are needed to help deliver their objectives.
Care England has partnered with Log my Care to publish a new national report, 'What shapes family confidence in care', exploring how families experience care
LSE Health held a special event celebrating the launch of Bad Influence, Deborah Cohen's urgent and eye-opening investigation into how social media has transformed healthcare.
With NHS waiting lists at record highs and GP appointments increasingly hard to secure, health influencers have filled the gap: promising everything from weight loss to wellness, often with little evidence to back their claims. From Ozempic trends to AI diagnoses, preventative screening to wearable tech, Cohen reveals how we've reached a point where medicine and marketing have become impossible to tell apart. In this compelling talk, award-winning medical journalist and broadcaster Dr Deborah Cohen explored the commodification of health in an age of anxiety, examining why millions now turn to Instagram doctors and celebrity wellness gurus for medical advice, and what this means for our collective wellbeing.
The talk was followed by a reception where copies of Bad Influence will be available for purchase.
Speaker: Dr Deborah Cohen (medical journalist and broadcaster, Senior Visiting Fellow at LSE Health) Discussant: Effie Webb (AI reporter, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism) Chair: Dr Huseyin Naci, Associate Professor of Health Policy at LSE Health, Director of the Pharmaceutical Policy Lab)
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