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.
Explainer 09/11/2018
Following the NHS financial settlement this summer, all eyes moved to the Budget to find out what the new money means in the context of other health spending and the overall government finances. As the dust settles, we've joined forces with the Health Foundation and The King's Fund to break it all d...
Blog post 26/10/2018Sally Gainsbury
Long read: Ahead of Monday’s Budget, Sally Gainsbury takes an in-depth view at this summer’s announcement that the NHS in England is to get an extra £20.5 billion a year by 2023/24. Just how far will it take the health service?
Press release 11/09/2018
For the first time the NHS's underlying deficit has been published by NHS Improvement.
Blog post 11/07/2018Nigel Edwards
Nigel Edwards sets the record straight on whether other countries’ health systems are actually so different from the NHS, while emphasising that the reasons for poor outcomes are much more complex than how a system is funded.
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...
Report 26/06/2018George Stoye
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...
Report 25/06/2018Mark DayanDeborah WardTim GardnerElaine Kelly
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...