NHS finances

Siva Anandaciva looks at the gains and losses for health and social care services in the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement.

Winters are often difficult for the NHS and this year is likely to be no exception. Ahead of the Autumn Statement in November, Richard Murray looks at some of the tough decisions likely to face the NHS this year.

Richard Murray reflects on whether the new NHS long term workforce plan will deliver the change the NHS needs.

Saoirse Mallorie pulls out just five measures to illustrate the mixed bag of findings from our new report, which analyses how the NHS compares to the health care systems of other countries.

Just when you thought things couldn’t get any stranger, 2022 happened. Here's our annual look at what the health policy year had in store.  

Siva Anandaciva brings together the recent announcements on health and care spending from the Autumn Budget.

Ahead of the Autumn Statement, Siva Anandaciva explores what we can learn from the two rounds of £20 billion funding squeezes the NHS has faced since 2010.

On 17 November, the government will announce its Autumn Statement. What will this mean for public services and all of us who use them? Sally Warren shares the important lessons from the past that the new Chancellor must heed, as we head into Austerity 2.0.

While the government is promising to build ‘40 new hospitals’, Siva Anandaciva considers the reality for patients and staff in existing NHS buildings and the cost of dealing with the maintenance backlog.

Despite no big announcements on NHS spending, the Spring Statement did contain some details for the health service to pay attention to. Siva Anandaciva outlines how inflation, the health and care levy and aims to improve efficiency will all have an impact.

Funding for local public health has been getting more complicated, making it harder for directors of public health to plan, and for transparency for anyone looking on, seeking to understand what is happening. David Buck looks at the different pieces of the jigsaw.

Tackling poverty is core business, and the NHS can start by addressing low pay in its own workforce, as many other public services have.