Context for Health Spending

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Public investment: what you need to know

explainer

Everything you wanted to know about UK public investment but were too afraid to ask – including analysis of Labour and Conservative plans.

25 April 2024

The £600 billion problem awaiting the next government

podcast

We speak to David Gauke and Giles Wilkes, two experts who have been at the heart of the spending review process.

25 April 2024

If you can’t see it, you can’t be it: role models influence female junior doctors’ choice of medical specialty

comment

Working alongside a greater share of senior women specialists during an early-career placement influences junior women’s own specialty choice.

24 April 2024

Policy analysis

NHS spending has risen less quickly than was planned at the last election, despite the pandemic and record waiting lists

press release

Despite a pandemic, record waiting lists and growing rates of ill health, real-terms health spending has risen less quickly than was planned.

14 May 2024

The past and future of UK health spending

report

How has health spending changed over the past seven decades? How does the UK compare to other countries? What is the outlook for health spending?

14 May 2024

Recent trends in and the outlook for health-related benefits

report

Recipients of and spending on health-related benefits have risen rapidly since the start of the pandemic, posing a serious challenge for policymakers.

19 April 2024

Academic research

The role of hospital networks in individual mortality

working paper

We estimate that broad-network insurers reduce mortality because they steer patients to higher-quality providers and reduce hospital congestion.

13 May 2024

6th World Bank/IFS/ODI Public Finance Conference | Driving Progress: Public Finance and Structural Transformation

conference 26 September 2024

We invite researchers from both academic and policy institutions to submit a paper or an extended abstract of two or more pages by April.

Forced displacement, mental health, and child development: Evidence from Rohingya refugees

working paper

In this study, we conducted a cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) involving 3,500 Rohingya mother-child pairs in refugee camps in Bangladesh.

10 May 2024