Blog post 20/08/2021Sally Gainsbury
Sally Gainsbury takes a forensic look at the current NHS finances – showing how trusts in England are on course to spend almost £5 billion more in the next financial year than was anticipated when funding levels were set. She argues that a heavy dose of realism is needed ahead of the new spending...
Report 14/05/2021Sarah ReedBilly PalmerMike BrewerMaja Gustafsson
Asking people with Covid-19 to self-isolate is vital to keep the pandemic under control as lockdown measures ease, yet only 52% of people who have symptoms isolate. This briefing by the Nuffield Trust and the Resolution Foundation argues that financial support through schemes similar to furlough sho...
Press release 13/06/2019
The underlying deficit for trusts has grown to around £5bn, the equivalent to the annual costs of 11 acute hospitals, despite services making a further £3bn in cost savings.
Blog post 29/03/2019Sharon Allen
For this week’s Friday FAQ we spoke to Sharon Allen, who this week stepped down from her role as Chief Executive of Skills for Care, a charity that supports adult social care employers. She will shortly begin as Chief Executive of the Arthur Rank Hospice Charity, which supports people with a life...
Report 20/01/2019Billy PalmerJohn ApplebyJonathan Spencer
It is generally acknowledged that small, rural NHS health care providers face higher costs than larger, urban areas. For a number of years the NHS has adjusted financial allocations to account for these unavoidable variations in costs in different parts of the country. However, our review for the Na...
Press release 22/11/2018
The funding boost will simply allow GPs and community services to keep up with demand.
Press release 11/09/2018
For the first time the NHS's underlying deficit has been published by NHS Improvement.
Spotlight 02/07/2018
The NHS's 70th birthday has been accompanied by unprecedented levels of debate over the best ways of running the health care system. Here we collect together the work we have been doing to contribute evidence, analysis and our expert opinion to the discussions taking place.
Report 26/06/2018Ruth ThorlbyAnna StarlingCatherine BroadbentToby Watt
To mark the BBC's coverage of the NHS's 70th birthday in July 2018, researchers from the Health Foundation, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, The King’s Fund and the Nuffield Trust have joined forces for the first time, using combined expertise to shed light on some of the big questions on the NHS...