You’re much less likely to survive a cardiac arrest if you live in a deprived area of England and Scotland, new research suggests.

Sir Keir Starmer may have pulled one or two punches by leaving all the biggest jobs in his Shadow Cabinet

unchanged, but the significance of the changes he has made to several mid-level roles should not be underestimated.

Labour Party Leader Keir Starmer has today announced a reshuffle of his Shadow Cabinet - expected to be his final before the General Election, and giving the party an opportunity to fire the starting gun on the campaign at their Conference in a little over a month.

An estimated 340,000 people died whilst on a waiting list in 2022, compared to 240,000 in 2017 - a 42 per cent rise, which represents more than 60 per cent of all deaths in England. 

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has today announced a mini-reshuffle of his Cabinet, following Ben Wallace’s decision to stand down.

Anchor, England’s largest provider of specialist housing and care for those in later life, today announced its partnership with the Purpose Health and Social Care Coalition to produce an Impact Report into its work.

We all have a stake in fixing the regional and class-driven disadvantage that the exam results expose

Looking at news reports of students getting their A-level and GCSE results this past fortnight, I recall how easy it is at that age to feel like you should have your whole life mapped out.

This week’s GCSE results returned to pre-pandemic levels but they also indicated a widening regional divide amongst a cohort of pupils that had already been adversely affected by the impact of Covid.

Engineers are the world’s problem solvers. You can see their legacy everywhere – from iconic structures like the pyramids or aqueducts to technological wonders we encounter every day, like the light bulb or telephone.

Former Cabinet Minister Rt Hon Justine Greening celebrates Yeovil’s official status “The Home of British Helicopters”: Leonardo has a long established engineering and manufacturing hub in the town, with an extensive helicopter supply chain that supports 12,000 jobs around the UK.

Chair of the Purpose Coalition, Rt Hon Justine Greening, and a number of Purpose Universities Coalition Vice-Chancellors have this week written to the Prime Minister regarding his recent announcement about a crackdown on low-value degrees.

As students wait for their A-Level results on Thursday, new analysis shows how their plans for the future have been affected by the pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis.

As we head towards A-Level results day, students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will be feeling the pressure as they wait to find out how they did in this summer’s exams and if that was good enough to get them into their university of choice.

We hear a lot about the skills gap. It’s a twenty-first century challenge and it’s ironic that it’s the tech sector where the situation is particularly acute.

Amid a continuing cost-of-living crisis and an uncertain fiscal outlook, a new report has shed light on how the pandemic impacted children’s development.

As climate records tumble and political parties review their policies to reflect perceived voter sentiment, the evidence continues to stack up to show that the burden of climate change, and in particular that of air pollution, is borne by the most disadvantaged communities.

The scale and impact of the growth in the number of people living with major illness as the population ages has been laid bare in ground-breaking new analysis. It makes for shocking reading, with over nine million people projected to be living with major illness by 2040, an increase of 2.5 million since 2019.

The University of Greenwich has written to the Government to raise concerns about how the quality of teacher training is assessed in what it called a ‘seriously flawed’ approach.

Purpose Business Coalition partners were amongst those included on this year’s prestigious HR Most Influential list which recognises the people whose ideas and actions have most shaped HR practices in the UK and globally in 2023