Nurse staffing and inpatient mortality in the English National Health Service: a retrospective longitudinal study.

Objective: To examine the impact of nursing team size and composition on inpatient hospital mortality.

Design: A retrospective longitudinal study using linked nursing staff rostering and patient data. Multilevel conditional logistic regression models with adjustment for patient characteristics, day and time-invariant ward differences estimated the association between inpatient mortality and staffing at the ward-day level.

Long-term care spending and hospital use among the older population in England.

This paper examines the impact of changes in public long-term care spending on the use of public hospitals among the older population in England. Mean per-person long-term care spending fell by 31% between 2009/10 and 2017/18, but cuts varied considerably geographically. We instrument public long-term care spending with predicted spending based on historical national funding shares and national spending trends.

Educational Inequalities in Hospital Use Among Older Adults in England, 2004-2015.

Unlabelled: Policy Points US policymakers considering proposals to expand public health care (such as "Medicare for all") as a means of reducing inequalities in health care access and use could learn from the experiences of nations where well-funded universal health care systems are already in place. In England, which has a publicly funded universal health care system, the use of core inpatient services by adults 65 years and older is equal across groups defined by education level, after controlling for health status. However, variation among these groups in the use of outpatient and emergency department care developed between 2010 and 2015, a period of relative financial austerity.

The Wider Impacts of the Coronavirus Pandemic on the NHS.

The coronavirus pandemic has had huge impacts on the National Health Service (NHS). Patients suffering from the illness have placed unprecedented demands on acute care, particularly on intensive care units (ICUs). This has led to an effort to dramatically increase the resources available to NHS hospitals in treating these patients, involving reorganisation of hospital facilities, redeployment of existing staff and a drive to bring in recently retired and newly graduated staff to fight the pandemic.