As digital technologies have developed, there has been a slow but significant shift in people using digital tools to access health and care services – and in health and care services using digital tools to deliver services.

Currently, it is estimated that more than one in five people in the UK are living in poverty.
Our analysis reveals that people living in poverty find it harder to live a healthy life, live with greater illness, face barriers to accessing timely treatment, and die earlier than the rest of the population.

Our latest Social care 360 review highlights that adult requests for social care have hit a record high of two million, and that across the sector the key measures all point towards a social care system that is under intense pressure.