Tag Archives: Health and Social Care

In a paper published today by the Social Market Foundation, with a foreword from former health minister Lord Norman Warner, healthcare researcher Max Thilo identifies lessons for the UK’s healthcare...

Theo Bertram said: “I’m delighted to join the SMF as its new Director. Over 35 years, the SMF has established a reputation at the centre of British politics as independent,...

The proposals come as part of a paper published today by the Social Market Foundation think tank by Nick Bosanquet, former Professor of Health Policy at Imperial College, and Andrew...

The Social Market Foundation has said that policymakers looking to improve the nation’s health should not be too worried about voter opposition, since the public is overwhelmingly in favour of...

Lord Warner, a health minister under Tony Blair, has written a pamphlet for the Social Market Foundation warning that without dramatic change in management and structure, the NHS will inevitably...

Today Keir Starmer pledged to “improve healthy life expectancy for all” and to “halve the inequality gap between different regions of England”, but the SMF, a cross-party think tank, argued...

In our latest ESRC-sponsored Ask the Expert seminar, Jill Manthorpe, Professor of Social Work and Director of the Social Care Workforce Research Unit at Kings College London, discussed the key...

The Social Market Foundation has calculated that there are 7.6 million people in the UK who provide unpaid care for a relative. That is 1 million more than in 2005....

A new report released by the Social Market Foundation (SMF) calls on the Government to introduce a long-term spending target for the NHS in England in order to set healthcare funding on a more sustainable trajectory and to reduce the annual calls demanding a one-off surge in expenditure.