Based on interviews with eight of the 'first wave' integrated care systems, this report seeks to understand how they are developing and to identify lessons for local systems and national policy-makers.
This report finds that access to and quality of care are both being affected in different ways across the NHS. While public attention tends to focus on high-profile examples of rationing such as restricting access to some types of treatment, the report warns that financial and other pressures are also ...
With the NHS and social care experiencing growing demand for services and financial pressures, there is a need for the system to work differently. Technology and the physical estate are essential for delivering change, with the potential to transform the way patients interact with services and support different ways of ... and This report was commissioned by NHS Property Services.
The NHS is under financial pressure with growing demand for services. As the NHS reaches its 70th birthday, The King’s Fund has been exploring how the public views its relationship with the NHS. In March 2018, in partnership with Ipsos MORI, we carried out three ‘deliberative workshops’ to explore this ...
The CQC introduced a new approach to inspecting and rating health and social care providers in 2013. Our report with the Alliance Manchester's Business School is the first major evaluation of this approach.