The Information Commissioner's Office decided last month that the Department of Health and Social Care can continue to withhold the government’s impact assessment of the UK-US pharmaceuticals trade de...

Sally Gainsbury and York University’s James Lomas argue that the terms of the recent US-UK medicines agreement will clearly reduce the cost effectiveness of the NHS’s finite resources. The blog was or...

Podcast Episode · Medicine and Science from The BMJ · 1 May · 43min

Sally Gainsbury responds to reports that the NHS will pay a higher price for branded new medicines.

The government has been locked in a dispute with pharmaceutical companies for a number of months over how much the NHS pays for new branded medicines. Sally Gainsbury and Huseyin Naci set out the issu...

With the newly published Life Sciences Sector Plan coming soon after the 10 Year Health Plan for England, Sally Gainsbury reflects on the government’s gamble on the NHS as a driver of economic growth ...

With the newly published Life Sciences Sector Plan coming soon after the 10 Year Health Plan for England, Sally Gainsbury reflects on the government’s gamble on the NHS as a driver of economic growth ...

The PM says it's 'reform or die' for the NHS, we discuss ambitious plans to restructure it

I’ve had occasional long and at times difficult correspondence with various bodies who are busy promoting polygenic risk scoring who want me to be a “strategic partner” or something (ie “Greg Fell …

Following recent press speculation that the UK may soon agree to pay more for drugs used within the NHS as part of a trade deal with the USA, we spoke to Mark Dayan and Sally Gainsbury to discuss the ...

The notion that the health service has emerged as a “winner” from the chancellor’s spending review is a bit like congratulating someone who has just won back the face value of a scratch card. It certa...

Sally Gainsbury responds to the Spring Statement.

We are looking to recruit a new Fellow to work on projects relating to the funding and financing of health and social care services.

Spotting disease early can save lives but advances in medicine have produced an epidemic of overdiagnosis — and in many cases this is doing more harm than good

With the news today that NHS England will be abolished, Mark Dayan and Leonora Merry look at how far things have changed since NHSE was created 12 years ago.

We are looking to recruit a new Fellow to work on projects relating to the funding and financing of health and social care services.

Ahead of this week’s Nuffield Trust Summit, our Chair Martin Marshall picks out some highlights from the two-day programme. He explains why this year it’s so important to gather people together at the...

We are looking to recruit a new Fellow to work on projects relating to the funding and financing of health and social care services.

Sally Gainsbury assesses what the recent budget means for the NHS. This blog was originally published in the BMJ on November 4.

A week before the chancellor of the exchequer Rachel Reeves delivered her first budget, the Nuffield Trust published analysis showing that the NHS in England was facing £4.8bn worth of unfunded cost p...

With all eyes on this week’s budget announcement, will social care be overlooked again? Natasha Curry and Camille Oung emphasise the pressures affecting the beleaguered sector and argue that a long-te...

With plenty of speculation already about what next week’s Budget will mean for the NHS, Sally Gainsbury describes the numbers and context that need to be considered before any figures that emerge next...

The 2021 Census asked everyone in the UK to report their general health from very bad to very good. As Sophie Julian and Sally Gainsbury show, there were some very revealing findings, with people from...