Spending on health and social care over the next 50 years: why think long term?

This report considers the drivers of spending on health and long-term care, and asks whether spending must or should consume such large proportions of GDP in the future, and the fiscal feasibility of this. It examines the evidence that spending will inexorably rise, considers projections and high-level modelling of future health spending both in the United Kingdom and internationally, and debates alternative systems of assessing current and future spending. It also suggests a need for engaged and informed public debate about the choices to be made in future spending on health and social care.

• Report
• Related talk from John Appleby
• Press release
• The King's Fund - Time to Think Differently