A new research study reveals that the productivity of the NHS in England has been broadly constant over the last seven years, increasing by an average of 0.1 per cent per year. The most detailed and comprehensive information available was used to compare growth in the total amount of resources...

Overview - 2010/11 was the first full financial year of a Coalition government committed to meeting the so-called “Nicholson challenge†of making £20bn efficiency savings in projected NHS expenditure by 2015. Securing improvements in NHS productivity is seen as a key element in...

At a time when there are severe pressures on reducing public spending there is increasing emphasis on determining which parts of the country secure best value for money in the NHS. By linking together large scale and routinely collected datasets we produce and compare productivity estimates...