NHS reference costs 2014 to 2015

"This publication sets out where over £61 billion has been spent by NHS providers in delivering
health care in 2014-15."

NHS reference costs 2014 to 2015
Department of Health
November 2015

Read more and access the data here.

Estimating NHS and social care spend: a tool for commissioners

"This Excel-based tool aims to help NHS commissioners by approximating how their local care economy spends its money by age group, patient group and care settings, and how this may evolve over time. By filling in some basic variables, commissioners can create a quick, indicative patient segmentation for their locality."

Estimating NHS and social care spend: a tool for commissioners
Monitor
September 2014

Access the tool and find out more here.

Adult social care efficiency tool

"The adult social care efficiency tool identifies similar areas (or ‘statistical neighbours’) for adult social care delivery for older people and working age adults with learning disabilities. These are the two largest groups who receive adult social care. The comparable indicators include spending per head, quality of services and access to services."

Adult social care efficiency tool
Department of Health
August 2014

Find out more and access the tool here.

Spending on health and social care to 2015-16

"This briefing examines the key issues underlying debates on health funding."

Spending on health and social care to 2015-16: Parliamentary briefing
Nuffield Trust
July 2013

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Spending Round 2013

"The key announcement was that NHS spending will be protected."

Spending Round 2013: analysis and response
NHS Confederation
June 2013

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Flat lining: lack of progress on NHS reform

"One of the consequences of reduced public spending in this Parliament has been innovation and change in the public services affected."

Flat lining: lack of progress on NHS reform
T Cawston, C Corrie, C Fraser, T Macpherson
Reform
June 2013

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Programmed for improvement

"Analysing programme spend alongside outcomes could be the starting point for clinical commissioning groups keen to get the most out of investments."

Programmed for improvement
S Brown
Healthcare Finance
June 2013

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Understanding competition and choice in the NHS

"This report examines the changes in the roles of the NHS and the private sector in the funding and provision of two elective in-patient procedures: hip and knee replacements.

Public payment and private provision: the changing landscape of health care in the 2000s
S Arora, A Charlesworth, E Kelly, G Stoye
Nuffield Trust, Institute for Fiscal Studies
May 2013

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Tool to link health outcomes and expenditure

"NHS England has commissioned Public Health England to develop a tool which helps commissioners to link health outcomes and expenditure."

Access this tool for commissioners here.

Spending on health and social care over the next 50 years

"In this paper, John Appleby analyses the factors that influence the demand for health and social care, taking a long-term perspective."

Spending on health and social care over the next 50 years: why think long term?
J Appleby
The King's Fund
January 2013

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A decade of austerity?

"This research attempts to quantify the funding pressures facing the NHS in England over the decade to 2021/22."

A decade of austerity?
A Roberts, L Marshall, A Charlesworth
Nuffield Trust
December 2012

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NHS and social care funding: the outlook to 2021/22

"This Institute for Fiscal Studies report, funded by the Nuffield Trust, examines what can be expected once the current unprecedented period of broadly flat NHS funding in real terms ends in 2014-15."

NHS and social care funding: the outlook to 2021/22
R Crawford, C Emmerson
Institute for Fiscal Studies, Nuffield Trust
July 2012

Read more here.

An international comparison of supply, utilization, prices, and quality

"This analysis uses data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and other sources to compare health care spending, supply, utilization, prices, and quality in 13 industrialized countries: Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States."

Explaining high health care spending in the United States: an international comparison of supply, utilization, prices, and quality
DA Squires
Issues in International Health Policy
The Commonwealth Fund
May 2012

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More for less 2009/10

"This briefing reviews primary care trust (PCT) spending in 2009/10, how trust income changed and whether the NHS made progress in becoming more efficient by providing as good or better care more cheaply. It updates More for Less, published in November 2009, which reviewed spending in 2008/09."

More for less 2009/10
Audit Commission
December 2010

Read more here.