When the effects of an accountancy change are removed, NHS providers ended the 2023-24 financial year £1.2bn overspent, doubling the level of overspend the previous year, after modest surpluses in ...

The fragile state of NHS provider finances has often been well publicised, even if those finances have not made quite the same headlines in the past few years. As Sally Gainsbury and Sophie Julian ...

Our new report today with the Health Economics Unit, commissioned by Marie Curie, is the most comprehensive analysis of ...

Over half (53%) of this public spending in the final year of life is spent on healthcare (£11.7bn) – or £18,020 per person ...

The Nuffield Trust is an independent health think tank. We aim to improve the quality of health care in the UK by providing ...

Sally Gainsbury responds to the Public Accounts Committee report on NHS financial sustainability. The Nuffield Trust is an ...

After years of arbitrary and irrational cuts, today’s announcement of a 5.4% uplift to the Public Health Grant is a welcome move by government, backing up its promise to shift health care more into ...

Supporting people at the end of life is a crucially important element of public spending, yet there is remarkably little evidence available on how much money is being spent on it, and what that money ...

This article describes four international examples of how contract and payment innovation and the use of incentives have been used to change and improve general practice services. The examples are ...