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

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 ...

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

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

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Thea Stein is the Chief Executive of the Nuffield Trust. She took up the post in September 2023. Thea was previously Chief Executive at Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust, and before then Chief ...

Mark Dayan is Brexit Programme Lead at the Nuffield Trust, working on the implications of leaving the European Union and of trade agreements for the NHS, life sciences and social care. Mark has also ...

Responding to plans to reform elective care for patients in England, Nuffield Trust Chief Executive Thea Stein said: “Today’s plan to tackle the NHS waiting list shows the government is serious about ...

How much money does the NHS have and how much money does it really need? Deciding what to spend on our health and care has become a hugely politicised and controversial topic. We have built a ...

Sally Gainsbury joined the Nuffield Trust in October 2015 as Senior Policy Analyst. Her focus is on health and social care funding and the NHS financing system. She also contributes to the Trust’s ...

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