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, ...

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 ...

The recent dramatic expansion of new healthcare roles in the English NHS, including physician associates, has failed to take account of lessons from history about how to embed and integrate them ...

In England, NHS general practice contracts (‘GP contracts’) are held between NHS England and individual general practices, and are managed by the primary care commissioning team in each integrated ...

The government has set out a new plan to reform elective (planned) hospital care with the aim of meeting its target of 92% of patients receiving treatment within 18 weeks by 2029. This collection ...

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 ...

Among the new year headlines about cutting waiting lists using same-day diagnostics and surgical hubs, the latest plan for reforming elective care revived a key target: to expand the uptake of patient ...

The need to revisit and agree the purpose and functions of general practice within the NHS is no less urgent than it was when highlighted in the 1950 Collings report into general practice! Recent ...

The history of the NHS is filled with examples of changes in professions within the service and the balance between them. In fact, the mix of professions within the NHS has been in flux since its ...