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Health and social care

This work analyses the financing, organisation and the demand for health and social care. It studies how much the UK spends on health and social care, specific policies that affect the delivery of care, workforce issues, health inequalities and a wide set of determinants of demand for health and social care in the UK and in low and middle income countries.

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The number of new disability benefit claimants has doubled in a year

Report

The number of working-age people newly awarded disability benefits doubled between July 2021 and July 2022. This report investigates that increase.

7 December 2022

How should we fund end-of-life care in the US?

Journal article

Dying is expensive in America. We discuss the current funding of end-of-life care in the US.

15 November 2022

The NHS needs to ramp up treatment volumes if waiting lists are to start falling any time soon

Comment

NHS waiting lists have so far increased broadly in line with our past projections. We examine what this might mean for waiting lists in 2023.

15 November 2022

Technology, skills, and performance: the case of robots in surgery

Working Paper

This paper investigates the potential of new technologies to reduce disparities in the provision of healthcare services.

7 November 2022

Health inequalities

Report

There are marked differences in life expectancy between the regions of England, the countries in the UK, and the UK and other wealthy countries.

4 November 2022

Is worsening health leading to more older workers quitting work, driving up rates of economic inactivity?

Comment

We examine labour market trends for older people to see if poorer health is driving down employment rates and causing a rise in economic inactivity

26 October 2022

Mini-Budget 2022 and follow-up

Collection

Analysis of the government's tax and spending plans - and follow-up - announced as part of the mini-Budget.

17 October 2022

The health effects of universal early childhood interventions: evidence from Sure Start

Working Paper

We evaluate the short- and medium-term health impacts of Sure Start.

13 October 2022

The impact of area level mental health interventions on outcomes for secondary school pupils: Evidence from the HeadStart programme in England

Working Paper

This paper provides the first robust evaluation of the impacts on school outcomes of HeadStart for area-level mental health interventions.

13 October 2022

IFS Green Budget 2022

Report

The IFS Green Budget 2022 takes stock of the economic and fiscal outlook following Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-Budget and analyses the challenges ahead.

11 October 2022

Nurse staffing and inpatient mortality in the English National Health Service: a retrospective longitudinal study

Journal article

This journal article examines the impact of nursing team size and composition on inpatient hospital mortality.

27 September 2022

Prenatal sugar consumption and late-life human capital and health: analyses based on postwar rationing and polygenic scores

Working Paper

We exploit the abolishment and subsequent reintroduction of rationing sweet confectionery in the UK and consider the effects on late-life health.

26 September 2022

Will public sector workers get a pay rise?

Podcast

With inflation squeezed living standards, will the government have to give public sector workers a pay rise?

21 September 2022

NHS waiting lists

Collection

Read our analysis on NHS waiting lists.

20 September 2022

Overconfidence and technology adoption in health care

Working Paper

We study the determinants of adoption in the case of implantable cardiac defibrillators, for which we document large differences across hospitals.

31 August 2022

Factors associated with staff retention in the NHS acute sector

Report

This report examines how a range of individual staff characteristics are associated with whether individual staff members decide to leave the NHS.

23 August 2022

Which staff members leave the NHS acute sector?

Comment

Increasing retention of NHS staff is important for achieving policy goals. We examine which staff are most likely to leave the NHS acute sector.

23 August 2022

A National Care Service will mean big changes and challenges for Scottish council funding

Comment

Plans for a Scottish ‘National Care Service’ would centralise over £4 billion of spending and may not lead to more consistent services.

11 August 2022

The distribution of doctor quality: evidence from cardiologists in England

Working Paper

This paper provides new evidence on the role senior doctors play in determining patient outcomes.

9 August 2022

Long COVID and the labour market

Report

We assess long COVID's impact has on labour market outcomes including hours, earnings and employment.

27 July 2022

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