Although its budget was protected in the 2010 Spending Review, the NHS faces the tightest financial settlement in its history. To avoid reducing quality and making significant cuts to services, it needs to find £20 billion in productivity improvements by 2015. Reductions in the prices paid to hospitals for treating ...
As part of its work looking at the pressures being faced by the NHS, The King’s Fund published its first Quarterly Monitoring Report in April 2011. This is the fourth report, and it aims to
provide a real-time update on how the NHS is coping as it tackles the evolving ...
As part of its work on the pressures faced by the NHS, The King’s Fund published its first Quarterly Monitoring Report in April this year. This is the third report and it aims to provide a
regular update on how the NHS is coping as it tackles the evolving reform ...
This report, the second part of 'The NHS under the coalition government', looks at how well the NHS has performed under the coalition government. The report acknowledges that assessing the performance of any health service is an inexact science for many reasons, but using routinely available data, the report creates ...
As part of our work tracking, analysing and commentating on the changes and challenges facing the NHS, The King’s Fund published its first Quarterly Monitoring Report in April 2011. Just
over a year on, this fifth report aims to take stock of what has happened over the past year – ...
This new analysis of data for the final quarter of 2012/13 shows that nearly six per cent of patients waited four hours or longer in A&E departments, the highest level since 2004. It shows that 313,000 patients (5.9 per cent) spent four hours or more in A&E in the period ...
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 health and social care system
is facing. This is the 10th report and aims to take stock of what has happened over ...
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 health and care system is facing. This is the seventh report and provides an update on how the NHS is coping as ...
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 health and care system is
facing. This is the ninth report and aims to take stock of what has happened over the ...
Patient surveys - recognised internationally as a key marker of the quality of care, and an important tool for improvement in the NHS - provide a unique perspective, complementing the wealth of other data on hospital performance gathered by trusts and regulators. Now, for the first time, The King’s Fund ...