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 ...
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.
Commissioned by the National Garden Scheme, this report explores how the work of the National Garden Scheme and its beneficiaries fits within the context of the future of policy development in health and care. The National Garden Scheme is an independent charity that provides annual donations to a range of ...
This working paper is produced as part of the Social Care Funding Options project, a joint project between the Health Foundation and The King’s Fund. and This paper considers the following approaches to funding social care for older people in England: improving the current system; the Conservative Party’s proposals at the time of the 2017 general election (a revised means test and a cap on care costs); a single budget for health and social care; free ...