Projects
Our projects combine original research with objective analysis to influence health and social care policy, support managers in health care and generate informed debate.
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A Review of Leadership in the NHS
This year's leadership review will examine the concept of leadership for engagement in health care, promoting engagement within teams, organisations and across the system to drive improvement. -
Clinical commissioning: making it work
Are you grappling with how to make clinical commissioning work? We can draw on our wealth of policy and leadership development expertise to help you effectively navigate through the health reforms. -
Clinicians’ use of cost and quality information: the role of service-line management
This project looks at how clinicians, working alongside general management and finance colleagues, use data on cost and quality to help them to manage their services -
Enhancing the Healing Environment
Encouraging and enabling nurse-led teams to work in partnership with patients to improve the environment in which they deliver care. -
Environmental sustainability in health & social care
The King’s Fund is working with the NHS Sustainable Development Unit to establish what research is needed to support health and social care services in the UK in becoming more environmentally sustainable. -
European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
The King's Fund has signed up to work with the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (the Observatory) to take on the role as national lead institute (NLI) for the UK. -
GSK IMPACT Awards
The IMPACT Awards are designed to recognise and reward charities that are doing excellent work to improve people’s health. -
Health and wellbeing boards: Making them work
This project will work with two local authorities and their health partners to gain insight into how they are implementing health and wellbeing boards in the context of NHS reforms -
Learning from other health systems
As part of our work to improve health care in England, we also look to learn from international evidence. Here is a selection of our internationally focused work, plus links to resources. -
Making integrated care a reality
The King’s Fund and Nuffield Trust were asked by the Department of Health to support the development of a national strategy for the promotion of integrated care.
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Mental health and long-term conditions: the cost of co-morbidity
The King’s Fund is working with partners to review the research evidence on the extent of co-morbidities, their impact on the quality and cost of care, and ways in which people with both a long-term condition and a mental health problem could be better supported. -
Point of Care programme
The Point of Care programme aims to help health care staff in hospitals deliver the quality of care they would want for themselves and their own families. -
Quarterly monitoring report
Our quarterly monitoring report examines the views of finance directors on the productivity challenge they face, as well as some key NHS performance data. -
Reducing acute care bed utilisation
This project analyses how acute care beds are being used in the NHS in England and considers the pressure placed on availability by the NHS reforms. -
Safer Births: Supporting maternity services to improve safety
The Safer Births programme aims to enable front-line professionals working in maternity units to improve the safety of the services they deliver to women and their babies. -
The Dilnot Commission: Social care funding
For several years, we have been contributing to the debate over how best to meet the challenge of providing good-quality, affordable social care. We bring together all our commentary and resources following the report of the Commission on the Funding of Care and Support. -
The Health and Social Care Bill
The Health and Social Care Bill represents the biggest shake-up of the NHS since its inception, and will be implemented against the backdrop of the biggest financial challenge in its history. Read our commentary and analysis on the latest NHS reforms. -
Transforming NHS provider services through social enterprise
Identifying the challenges for health organisations considering becoming a social enterprise, and the support they will need from the government. -
Whole Systems Demonstrator Action Research Network (WSDAN)
Combines research and learning opportunities to examine the use of telecare and telehealth in enabling and improving the management of long-term conditions.
