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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 elective recovery plan landed on a busy day in general practice. First Mondays of the new year are always hectic, and the NHS is again facing significant winter pressures. But GPs will have taken ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Commenting on the latest NHS England performance and winter SitRep data, Nuffield Trust Director of Research and Policy Dr Becks Fisher said: “The new year ushers in mixed tidings for the NHS in ...

The plan to reform elective care for patients, published earlier this week, shows that the government is serious about changing how planned health care is delivered over a longer term. As this blog ...