This paper explores the coalition government’s record on NHS reform by describing the situation it inherited when it came to power in 2010, the policies it has pursued, and (where available) evidence of their impact. It takes the stated aims of the reforms
as the starting point and reviews progress ...
This paper aims to challenge those involved in integrated care and public health to ‘join up the dots’, seeing integrated care as part of a broader shift away from fragmentation towards an approach focused on improving population health. Using examples from organisations and systems in other countries that are making ...
In June 2015, The King’s Fund was commissioned by the Department of Health to review how the performance of local health systems could be assessed. Our review looks at how to measure the performance of health services within CCG areas, including how well these services work with social care and ...
The NHS five year forward view (Forward View), published by NHS England and other national NHS bodies, sets out a shared view on how services need to change and what models of care will be required in the future. While the direction set by the Forward View has been broadly ...
This collection of essays, published jointly by the All-Party Parliamentary Health Group (APHG) and The King’s Fund, maps out health priorities for the next parliament, as seen from the perspective of key stakeholders in the world of health.
In 2014 The King’s Fund was approached by the health department in the Australian state of Victoria to undertake an independent review of the model of the state’s devolved governance of health services. This report presents the findings of our review, drawing on three visits to interview key stakeholders and ...