The sustainability of the NHS and social care system is likely to become an even bigger issue in coming years, given funding constraints, increasing demand, workforce shortages and variation in the quality and productivity of care.
Our work on efficiency and productivity aims to help NHS and social care services to become more sustainable. We look at whether health care resources are being used to get the best value for money, and identify ways that productivity of services and workforce can be improved.
Our recent work and content on this topic is listed below.
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Which improvement approaches have the potential to increase productivity in the NHS? Tim Horton, Anita Mehay and Will Warburton look at what is needed to put these approaches into practice.
Icaro Rebolledo and Anita Charlesworth use five charts to compare UK health care spending with EU countries before the pandemic.
The Health Foundation publishes its analysis comparing UK health spending across Europe.
The NHS is already an efficient health care system, in terms of what is achieved with the funding available. However, with constant pressure to do more with less, finding ways to improve efficiency is...
Around 700,000 more people are economically inactive now than before the pandemic. This article looks at what is driving this increase and explores the role of ill health.
Healthcare professional and patient perception on cancer services during COVID-19.
Enhancing Cost-Effective Prescribing
A research report demystifying learning health systems and setting out important areas where action can lead to tangible progress.
Bryan Jones sets out key learnings from the VMI evaluation, and offers recommendations for national policymakers and local systems leaders.
In the REAL Centre's latest analysis, we review past trends and set out our projections for the number of general and acute hospital beds required in England between 2018 and 2030.
With England having fewer beds per person than comparable countries, new analysis raises big questions for incoming government over where investment should go to alleviate pressures in hospitals.
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