John Appleby

John Appleby is chief economist at The King's Fund.

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Recent stories

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  Competition isn't always the best option

  We must be carfeul with how NHS competition is used

  21-Mar-2013 | Comments (2)

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  It's time to rethink payment by results

  The landscape has changed, and with it so should the tariff system

  13-Nov-2012 | Comments (3)

• John Appleby on risking failure

  In his book Adapt: Why success always starts with failure, Tim Harford retells a moving and excellent story about Archie Cochrane’s efforts to conduct a clinical trial in a German internment camp.

  23-Feb-2012

• Taking up the Dorrell challenge? It's the money, stupid

  23-Feb-2012 | Comments (3)

• An NHS ice age may have only just begun

  1-Jun-2011 | Comments (5)

• Waiting times tracker: analysis of seasonal effects

  20-Dec-2010

• 'What will a real increase in the NHS budget actually mean?'

  20-Oct-2010

• Why NICE values some patients' lives more

  5-Feb-2009 | Comments (4)

• NHS parallels with the finance markets

  9-Oct-2008

• Scottish approach to healthcare is not paying off

  24-Jul-2008

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Recent blog posts

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  Politics and satisfaction with the NHS

  To say the NHS is political is to state the obvious. But are the public’s views about the NHS shaped by, or linked to, identification with political parties?

  The King's Fund | 5-Apr-2013

• New inflation forecasts imply NHS funding cut

  When the spending review was announced in October, the NHS budget faired reasonably well in comparison with other departments, with a real-terms increase of just under 0.1 per cent per year.

  The King's Fund | 8-Dec-2010

John Appleby contributes to:

• The King's Fund