Sally Gainsbury

Staff

Sally Gainsbury

Senior Policy Analyst

Nuffield Trust

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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 rapid response and analysis of emerging policy issues.

Prior to joining the Trust Sally was an investigative journalist at the Financial Times, working on UK and international investigations spanning public spending, tax avoidance and money laundering. Before joining the FT Sally was chief reporter and news editor at Health Service Journal.

Sally has a PhD in history and a masters in politics.

Sally Gainsbury has worked on

Review of North Central London’s Start Well maternity and neonatal care reconfiguration proposals against the Mayor’s first four tests

Report
  • 15/03/2024
  • Sally Gainsbury | Camille Oung | Dr Elizabeth Fisher | Sophie Julian | Emma Dodsworth

Health and care finance tracker

Data story
  • 21/11/2023
  • Sally Gainsbury

NHS spending plans and reality over the past 10 years

Explainer
  • 21/11/2023
  • Sally Gainsbury

Overspent and overlooked: Why Britain's politicians need to talk NHS funding again

Blog post
  • 02/10/2023
  • Sally Gainsbury

What was austerity's toll on the NHS before the pandemic?

Blog post
  • 21/06/2023
  • Leonora Merry | Sally Gainsbury

When being 64 for the most deprived feels like 90 for the better off

Chart of the week
  • 23/03/2023
  • Sophie Julian | Sally Gainsbury

Assessment of North West London’s proposed elective orthopaedic care centre against all six of the Mayor’s Tests

Report
  • 21/03/2023
  • Sally Gainsbury | Eilís Keeble | Dr Miranda Davies | Helen Buckingham | Sophie Julian | Olivia Gabrielle Wallace

Assessment of North West London’s proposed elective orthopaedic care centre against the first four of the Mayor’s Tests

Report
  • 23/01/2023
  • Sally Gainsbury | Eilís Keeble | Sophie Julian | Olivia Gabrielle Wallace

Review of the Mayor of London’s Health Inequalities Test

Report
  • 08/11/2022
  • Sally Gainsbury | Rachel Hutchings

The past, present and future of government spending on the NHS

Blog post
  • 17/10/2022
  • Sally Gainsbury | John Appleby

Future funding and current productivity in Northern Ireland’s health and social care system

Report
  • 27/09/2022
  • John Appleby | Mark Dayan | Sally Gainsbury

Higher inflation to erode NHS spending power

Blog post
  • 21/09/2022
  • John Appleby | Sally Gainsbury

Is an already tough year for the NHS about to get a lot tougher?

Blog post
  • 18/07/2022
  • Sally Gainsbury

Three things the NHS will be watching out for on Wednesday

Blog post
  • 26/10/2021
  • Mark Dayan | Sally Gainsbury

Checking the NHS’s reality: the true state of the health service’s finances

Blog post
  • 20/08/2021
  • Sally Gainsbury

Chart of the week: Lockdown loneliness and anxiety across the generations

Chart of the week
  • 15/10/2020
  • Sally Gainsbury

North Central London adult elective orthopaedic services review: Nuffield Trust assessment against the Mayor’s six tests

Report
  • 16/09/2020
  • Sally Gainsbury | Nigel Edwards | Helen Buckingham | Dr Simona Baracaia | Dr Rebecca Rosen

Having your fudge and eating it

Blog post
  • 05/04/2019
  • Sally Gainsbury

NHS funding boost: the need to manage expectations

Blog post
  • 26/10/2018
  • Sally Gainsbury

With strings attached: taking a closer look at the new NHS money

Blog post
  • 09/02/2018
  • Sally Gainsbury

If your household finances were like the NHS

Blog post
  • 22/11/2017
  • Sally Gainsbury

Five reasons why the Chancellor must find extra cash for the NHS at the budget

Blog post
  • 08/11/2017
  • John Appleby | Sally Gainsbury

When the price isn't right: how cuts in hospital payments added up to the NHS deficit

Blog post
  • 13/10/2017
  • Sally Gainsbury

Sustainability and transformation plans in London

Report
  • 12/09/2017
  • Professor Chris Ham CBE | Hugh Alderwick | Nigel Edwards | Sally Gainsbury

The NHS deficit is here to stay

Blog post
  • 31/08/2017
  • Sally Gainsbury

The bottom line: Understanding the NHS deficit and why it won’t go away

Report
  • 31/08/2017
  • Sally Gainsbury
Edit

Nuffield Trust Snapshots

Video
  • 30/05/2017
Edit

Snapshot – Sally Gainsbury on NHS finances

Video
  • 27/05/2017

NHS funding choices and the 2017 General Election

Report
  • 22/05/2017
  • John Appleby | Sally Gainsbury

Not so fast: how to slow activity growth

Blog post
  • 21/10/2016
  • Sally Gainsbury

Behind the numbers: NHS finances

Explainer
  • 18/10/2016
  • Mark Dayan | Sally Gainsbury

Feeling the crunch: NHS finances to 2020

Report
  • 05/08/2016
  • Sally Gainsbury
Edit

Is the NHS facing a funding crisis?

Video
  • 06/05/2016

'Transformation fund' or deficit mop-up? Time for an honest conversation

Explainer
  • 20/01/2016
  • Sally Gainsbury

What the Spending Review really means for the NHS

Blog post
  • 27/11/2015
  • Sally Gainsbury

Hanging on to hospital fines could hit patients hardest

Blog post
  • 10/11/2015
  • Sally Gainsbury