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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...