This can include treatment for a severe injury, period of illness, urgent medical condition, or to recover from surgery. In the NHS, it often includes services such as accident and emergency (A&E) departments, inpatient and outpatient medicine and surgery.
Our recent work and content on this topic is listed below.
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Six charts looking at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on consultant-led elective care.
The Networked Data Lab explain what intermediate care is and use national open data to examine the state of play for intermediate care services in England.
Melissa Co looks at the challenges to evidence for virtual wards – and what can be done about them.
Health Foundation release analysis on length of stay of hospital admissions from 2019 to 2022
In this analysis, we explore patterns in hospital admissions between 2019 and 2022, drivers of recent falls in admission numbers and implications for policy.
The data analytics team examine the role of independent sector providers in delivering elective care, and how this might help tackle the backlog.
Experience of congential heart patients from paediatric to adult services.
New analysis explores the role of independent sector health care providers in delivering NHS-funded elective care in England between April 2018 and March 2022.
In the REAL Centre's latest analysis, we review past trends and set out our projections for the number of general and acute hospital beds required in England between 2018 and 2030.
With England having fewer beds per person than comparable countries, new analysis raises big questions for incoming government over where investment should go to alleviate pressures in hospitals.
The impact of an integrated health and social care intervention for the caregivers of ICU survivors.
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