The updated report
The complete current edition, with its supporting evidence.
Read the reportNew evidence.
A clearer understanding.
Explainers, research developments and substantive policy updates. Each connects a development to the people, decisions and evidence it affects.
26 October 2026 · Report update
Scale, disclosure and patient protection.
Prescribing at scale
The official figures and the limits on counting patients.
Explore the dataHonest clinical conversations
How legal and professional pressures can affect appropriate care.
Follow the evidenceRecognition must work at the first encounter.
A legal safeguard needs to work while the patient still has access to treatment.
The decision and the account to Parliament.
Four parts of the documentary comparison, with direct original-source routes.
The research priorities behind the latest report.
Immediate protection, legal reform and the records Government needs to produce.
Later correspondence is added to its research thread as well as surfaced here.