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.
With a growing number of health care providers in deficit and others placed in special measures because of concerns about the quality of their care, the search is on to find ways in which they could be supported. Sir David Dalton’s forthcoming review provides a timely opportunity to explore the ...
This report describes the current financial state of the NHS and the reasons for the deterioration in financial performance and ultimately financial failure. These include weak leadership, legacy costs, payment by results (PbR), and the impact of the wider health economy.
This report, based on work commissioned by the National Housing Federation from The King’s Fund and the New NHS Alliance, looks at the economic case for closer working between the housing and health sectors. The authors demonstrate how housing associations provide a wide range of services that produce health benefits, ...
Unaudited figures indicate that NHS commissioners (clinical commissioning groups and NHS England) and providers in aggregate ended 2015/16 in deficit for the second year running. This briefing draws on data from our quarterly monitoring reports, secondary research and interviews with health care leaders to consider commissioner and provider finances in ...
Alongside the Social Care Vision, the Department of Health has launched Transparency in Outcomes: a framework for adult social care - a consultation on a new strategic approach to quality and outcomes in adult social care. The consultation envisages an enabling framework which places outcomes at the heart of social ...
Health care workforce planning is highly complex and multi-layered and involves different timelines for different professions and occupations. It is made particularly difficult by the long timelines associated with medical workforce planning. Our previous work suggested that these complexities make it is impossible to get workforce planning ‘right’, not least ...
This is an overall response and reflection on the White Paper Healthy Lives, Healthy People (Department of Health 2010) and the associated consultations on the outcomes framework and commissioning and funding mechanisms. We welcome the opportunity to respond to the Department’s proposals in the spirit of improving them further and ...