There has been a lot of recent interest in the rising demand for NHS autism and ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) services. In this Q&A, Thea Stein shares her thoughts on how big the ...

The fragile state of NHS provider finances has often been well publicised, even if those finances have not made quite the same headlines in the past few years. As Sally Gainsbury and Sophie Julian ...

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

Commenting on the latest NHS England performance and winter SitRep data, Nuffield Trust Deputy Director of Research Sarah Scobie said: “With over one in 10 people in England waiting for planned ...

When the effects of an accountancy change are removed, NHS providers ended the 2023-24 financial year £1.2bn overspent, doubling the level of overspend the previous year, after modest surpluses in ...

Over half (53%) of this public spending in the final year of life is spent on healthcare (£11.7bn) – or £18,020 per person ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...