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 ...

Our new report today with the Health Economics Unit, commissioned by Marie Curie, is the most comprehensive analysis of ...

The Nuffield Trust is an independent health think tank. We aim to improve the quality of health care in the UK by providing ...

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 ...

Sally Gainsbury responds to the Public Accounts Committee report on NHS financial sustainability. The Nuffield Trust is an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...