Tag Archives: Health and Social Care

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.

Former minister urges short-term and longer-term spending on infrastructure post-Brexit in new paper.

New report urges Government to establish Office for Patient Outcomes

The Social Market Foundation’s response to the 2015 Spending Review and Autumn Statement. Here we examine the impact of the OBR's revised forecasting on the Chancellor's spending and deficit plans; what the Tax Credits U-turn means; whether the increase in affordable housing will really help those who want to get on the housing ladder; and, if the government has missed a vital opportunity for further welfare reform.