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Spring Budget 2017

The Spring Budget was announced on 8 March 2017. This page collects our response to the Chancellor's announcements as well as some of our recent work on NHS and social care funding and finances.

Additional social care funding is welcome but radical reforms are badly needed

Read our response to the Spring Budget

Commentary and analysis ahead of the Spring Budget

How is the NHS performing?

Our latest quarterly monitoring report finds that more patients with complex conditions is the main reason for worsening performance in A&E departments.

What's going on in A&E?

How have A&E waiting times changed over the past few years? And what are the causes of the problems in A&E, which reflect wider pressures on the NHS and social care?

NHS finances on the brink

Is the spectre of an NHS – and Department of Health – overspend once again haunting the corridors of power? Richard Murray gives an overview of the state of NHS finances.

Is a ‘death tax’ for social care about to be announced?

Nicholas Timmins asks if a tax on people’s estates after they have died will be an acceptable idea this time around.

Theresa May's choice: give the NHS more money, or tell voters to expect worse care

Chris Ham explores the claim that the NHS and social care are seriously underfunded.

Listening to the chorus of concern around social care

Richard Humphries summarises the key funding issues facing social care.

Solutions for the NHS and social care

2017 priorities

We identity five priorities for the NHS and social care in 2017

The Barker Commission

Recommendations for the future of health and care in England