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What's the future of corporation tax?
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<p><span style="color:black;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;">Corporation tax was introduced 60 years ago. Despite many predictions of its decline, it is now forecast to raise record amounts. </span></p>
10 April 2025
Spring Statement 2025: IFS Zooms In
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<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(13, 13, 13);counter-reset:list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0;cursor:text;font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:2;padding:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"> What were the decisions and trade-offs made by Chancellor Reeves?</p>
27 March 2025
The Schools Bill: what's changing and why?
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<p class="p1">The bill aims to improve education and social care for children. But will it work?</p>
11 March 2025
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From Sure Start to Family Hubs: how can evidence best inform policymaking for joined up family support in the early years?
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Nurse retention and long-run NHS workforce challenges

James Buchan
Isabel Stockton

Published on 24 February 2021

Pay is an important lever in attracting and keeping staff, but is subject to tight regulations within the NHS. At this event, we explored the findings of new IFS work looking at the flexibility of the current pay system and its ability to address differences in the local cost of living across the country.

Pay is an important lever in attracting and keeping staff, but is subject to tight regulations within the NHS. At this event, we explored the findings of new IFS work looking at the flexibility of the current pay system and its ability to address differences in the local cost of living across the country.

James Buchan (Senior Visiting Fellow, Health Foundation) then examined the longer term challenges faced by the NHS in finding sufficient nursing staff to meet the sharply rising demand for healthcare, and potential policy solutions to this challenge.

You can watch the full event below, or download the slides here:

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Isabel Stockton

Isabel Stockton

Senior Research Economist

Isabel works in the Healthcare sector, and on the public finances. Their research focuses on retaining and developing the NHS workforce.

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James Buchan