Sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) are key to the future of health and care services. This report, commissioned by the Mayor of London and based on work completed in March 2017, looks at the five STPs in London, their contents and common themes.
The authors, from The King’s Fund and ...
Hypothecation – the earmarking of a tax to be spent on a specific area of public expenditure – is back on the political agenda. All the major parties seem agreed that a longer-term and sustainable settlement for NHS expenditure – and quite possibly one for social care as well – ...
New technology is promising to transform a health and social care sector that is increasingly struggling with the need to do more with less funding. Many providers and commissioners are looking for opportunities to use technology to improve services and cope better with the long-term demographic pressures that the system ...
Staffing is the make-or-break issue for the NHS in England. In this joint report with the Nuffield Trust and the Health Foundation, we set out the policy actions that need to be at the heart of the workforce implementation plan due to be published later this year. In this joint ...
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 ...
Our Quarterly Monitoring Report (QMR) reveals the views of NHS trust finance directors and clinical commissioning group finance leads on the productivity challenges they face, and examines some key NHS performance data. and This is the first digital edition of the Quarterly Monitoring Report (QMR). The new QMR still includes a shorter PDF of the headline findings this quarter, but also features digital versions of the survey results, interactive performance data charts and an infographic with the key findings for this quarter.
The research on which this paper is based was commissioned from The King’s Fund by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) to inform its work to develop an anti-poverty strategy for the United Kingdom. The overarching question addressed is, how can the NHS make a better contribution to tackling poverty? We ...
This is the second digital edition of the Quarterly Monitoring Report (QMR). The new QMR still includes a shorter PDF of the headline findings this quarter, but also features digital versions of the survey results, interactive performance data charts and an infographic with the key findings for this quarter. and Our Quarterly Monitoring Report (QMR) reveals the views of NHS trust finance directors and clinical commissioning group finance leads on the productivity challenges they face, and examines some key NHS performance data.
