Health inequalities

Comment & analysis

• Back to the future: 10 years of European health reforms

  Anna Dixon and Emmi Poteliakhoff explore the evolution of European health reforms in an article for Cambridge Journals Online (Article, January 2012)

• The King's Fund responds to The Health Select Committee's Report on Public Health

  David Buck welcomes the focus on health inequalities in the Health Select Committee's public health report. (Press release, 2 Nov 2011)

• Health inequalities policy: Spearhead or Public Health England?

  Will the health reforms and the formation of Public Health England help to address health inequalities in England? David Buck investigates in our blog. (Blog, David Buck, 6 Jul 2011)

• Our health depends on it: The Health Select Committee pauses for thought on public health

  With the Department of Health likely to publish their response to the consultations on 'Healthy Lives, Healthy People' before their summer recess the Health Select Committee has turned its light onto the public health reforms. What do they need to focus on? (Blog, David Buck, 26 May 2011)

• Incentivising public health in primary care: Learning from the QOF

  Good primary care is critical to public health and tackling inequalities. So how has the incentivisation scheme in primary care of, or QOF, impacted on public health? (Blog, David Buck, 21 Apr 2011)

• How will the Budget affect the state of our health?

• The Big Society: Nudging the public towards better health

  How important is changing social norms to the success of health behaviour change? David Buck discusses his findings from the last in our series of events on Health and the Big Society. (Blog, David Buck, 25 Jan 2011)

• Explaining variation in referral from primary to secondary care: cohort study

  To what extent does referral from primary care vary by age, sex, and social deprivation and do any sociodemographic variations in referral differ? This study investigates (Article, British Medical Journal, 30 Nov 2010)

• Hospital size isn't everything

  The link between death rates and the number of operations carried out by a hospital is not a straightforward one. (Article, The Guardian, 14 Jun 2010)

• The King's Fund Annual Conference 2010: Improving health care in tough times

  This year The King's Fund Annual Conference explored opportunities for ways of funding, organising and delivering care that cross professional and organisational boundaries. (Past event, Nov 2010)

• NHS making progress but not yet world class says The King's Fund

  The NHS has addressed many of the challenges it faced in 1997 but needs to change rapidly if it is to meet the big challenges it faces in the future according to a major review of the NHS in England since 1997 published by The King’s Fund. (Press release, 11 Apr 2010)

• Fair and healthy society

  Tammy Boyce comments on the publication of the Marmot Review into inequalities in health care. (Blog, Tammy Boyce, 23 Feb 2010)

• The King's Fund response to the Marmot Review of Health Inequalities

  Director of Policy Anna Dixon responds to the publication of Fair Society, Healthy Lives, the report of the Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England post-2010, an independent commission led by Sir Michael Marmot. (Press release, 11 Feb 2010)