How would you fund the NHS?

Published on 25 June 2018

How would you fund the NHS? Use this tool to try and reach these projected funding “targets” through increasing taxes and / or by cutting government spending in other areas.

How would you fund the NHS? Use this tool to try and reach these projected funding “targets” through increasing taxes and / or by cutting government spending in other areas.

Authors

Elaine Kelly
Elaine Kelly

Senior Research Economist

Elaine works in the Public Finance and Pensions sector and she joined the IFS in 2009 and became a member of the research staff in 2011.

George Stoye
George Stoye

Associate Director

I completed a PhD at UCL in 2020. My work examines the drivers of variation in the quantity and quality of healthcare provided to different patients.

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Thomas Pope

Resource details

Publisher
IFS

Suggested citation

E, Kelly and T, Pope and G, Stoye. (2018). How would you fund the NHS?. London: IFS.

Grant

Centre for the microeconomic analysis of public policy (CPP), 2010-2015

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