The white paper ‘Equity and excellence: liberating the NHS’ (Department of Health 2010) sets out a wide-ranging set of proposals to reform the NHS. The King’s Fund and Doctors.net.uk have carried out a survey to ascertain doctors’ opinions of the impact of these reforms. This paper summarises the main findings ...
An informed public debate is needed about both the level of future spending on health and social care, and how that spending might be funded. With this in mind, The King's Fund, in collaboration with Ipsos MORI, held two deliberative events with members of the general public.
One in four NHS trusts in England ended 2004 in deficit. The impact of current NHS reforms will be to magnify financial imbalances at a significant number of trusts, with the risk that some of them will fail. But there is no real plan for dealing with failure in the ...
The King’s Fund published its first Quarterly Monitoring Report in April 2011 as part of its work to track, analyse and comment on the changes and challenges the NHS is facing. This is the sixth report and aims to take stock of what is happening on the ground, 18 months ...
This article tells the story of the Hospital Pathways Programme
(HPP), a collaborative programme in which five acute trusts worked with The King’s Fund and the Health Foundation to apply techniques, not widely used in the NHS, to improve both processes of care and interactions between staff and patients.
Health and wellbeing boards are an important feature of the reforms introduced by the government in the Health and Social Care Act 2012. Unlike other aspects of the changes, the creation of these new bodies has been widely welcomed and enjoys cross-party support. All upper-tier local authorities set up boards ...
Throughout the debate on the Health and Social Care Bill, The King’s Fund has argued that the real choice is not between stability and change but between reforms that are well designed and deliver benefits to patients and those that are poorly planned and undermine NHS performance. The amendments made ...
With polls showing that health care is second only to the economy in the issues that will influence how people vote in the general election and over 80 per cent of people saying the NHS should be protected from public spending cuts, it is not surprising that all the main ...
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.
The creation of health and wellbeing boards is one aspect of the NHS reforms that enjoys overwhelming support. The boards offer new and exciting opportunities to join up local services, create new partnerships with GPs, and deliver greater democratic accountability.
Our view is that the creation of health and wellbeing ...