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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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Can white elephants kill? Unintended consequences of infrastructure development

Working Paper

I provide evidence of the severe social costs imposed by infrastructure projects that are being implemented in the context of sewerage in Peru.

12 July 2022

What will the cardiovascular disease slowdown cost? Modelling the impact of CVD trends on dementia, disability, and economic costs in England and Wales from 2020–2029

Journal article

After previous, dramatic falls, CVD incidence has recently plateaued. That slowdown could substantially increase health and social care costs.

29 June 2022

The decline of home-cooked food

Journal article

We show that observed behaviour can be rationalised by the fact that the shadow price of home-cooked food, which accounts for the fact that cooking takes time, has risen relative to the price of ready-to-eat food.

20 June 2022

The hardest decision for ministers is yet to come: what to do about pay

Comment

Paul Johnson writes for the Times on the 'difficult decisions' surrounding public sector pay.

20 June 2022

Prioritization, risk selection, and illness severity in a mixed health care system

Working Paper

We study the link between illness severity and the use of public health care services by the privately insured under a public health system.

16 June 2022

Pay compression in the NHS (and beyond)

Comment

Since 2010, more experienced and higher-paid workers in the NHS have experienced the largest pay cuts. This has compressed the pay distribution.

1 June 2022

The Platinum Jubilee generation: how are they doing?

Comment

The Platinum Jubilee generation – those born as the Queen came to the throne – turn 70 this year. How have their lives changed during the Queen’s reign?

30 May 2022

Spring Statement: inflation, living standards and uncertainty

Podcast

We look at the Chancellor's Spring Statement and discuss how effective it is, and what the long-term implications are.

25 March 2022

Defence cuts effectively paid for a growing UK welfare state for 60 years – but that looks impossible after Ukraine

Report

IFS Senior Research Economist Ben Zaranko writes for The Conversation on how the UK's lower defence spending has allowed successive governments to pay for a growing welfare state without a higher tax burden.

8 March 2022

Maternity and the labour supply of NHS doctors and nurses

Report

We examine how contracted hours change after nurses and doctors return from maternity leave, and how this varies across NHS trust and specialty.

8 March 2022

Working patterns of doctors and nurses returning from maternity leave

Comment

We examine how contracted hours change after nurses and doctors return from maternity leave and how this varies across NHS trust and specialty.

8 March 2022

The NHS backlog recovery plan and the outlook for waiting lists

Comment

More than 6 million people are now on an NHS waiting list. This backlog is expected to rise further and won’t be cleared during this parliament.

11 February 2022

Does the cap fit: How do the proposed changes to the social care cap affect people’s protection from catastrophic costs?

Presentation

In September, the government announced that it was introducing a cap on the lifetime social care costs faced by individuals. At the event a joint IFS-Health Foundation report was presented that looks at the implications of this change.

8 February 2022

Does the cap fit? Analysing the government’s proposed amendment to the English social care charging system

Report

This briefing note considers the effects of the government’s proposed amendment to the Care Act, which would mean that means-tested support does not c

7 February 2022

Sanitation and credit constraints – The role of labelled microcredit in India’s Swacch Bharat Mission subsidy scheme

Working Paper

We provide rigorous evidence of the impacts of labelled microcredit on household sanitation investment and borrowing behaviour.

4 February 2022

Early stimulation and nutrition: The impacts of a scalable intervention

Journal article

In this paper, we assess a cluster-RCT intervention to enhance child stimulation in Colombia's FAMI parenting program.

28 January 2022

What you should be paying attention to in 2022

Podcast

As 2022 starts, we speak to four IFS experts and find out what we should be looking out for this year.

12 January 2022

Effect of health insurance in India: a randomized controlled trial

Working Paper

We report on a large randomized controlled trial of hospital insurance for above-poverty-line Indian households.

7 December 2021

Where are all the missing hospital patients?

Comment

Millions of people missed out on hospital care during the pandemic, but still haven’t come forward to join the waiting list. Where are they?

7 December 2021

Ethnicity inequalities in Covid disruption to hospital admissions

Comment

Areas with larger ethnic minority populations experienced greater reductions in emergency admissions during the first ten months of the Covid-19 pandemic.

26 November 2021

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