NHS reform

Following Royal Assent, the Health and Social Care Bill is now the Health and Social Care Act. What will this mean for the NHS? Read our commentary and analysis on the latest NHS reforms.

Overview

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Quarterly monitoring report

Our quarterly monitoring report examines the views of finance directors on the productivity challenges they face, as well as some key NHS performance data.

Public satisfaction with the NHS and its services

Topline results and satisfaction trends relating to the NHS from the British Social Attitudes survey 2011.

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Health and Social Care Act timeline

Health and Social Care Act prezi

See the key moments that led to the Act reaching the statute book.

NHS reform Reading Room

Want to know more about NHS reform?

For more resources on NHS reforms, including reading lists, database searches and useful web pages, visit our Reading Room.

Related articles

Read articles on NHS reform from our health and social care policy experts.

Relevant publications

Health policy under the coalition government A mid-term assessment

28 Nov 2012

Sarah Gregory, Anna Dixon, Chris Ham

Improving GP services in England Exploring the association between quality of care and the experience of patients

7 Nov 2012

Veena Raleigh, Francesca Frosini

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Blogs on NHS reform

A guide to the NHS Commissioning Board’s Everyone Counts

8 Jan 2013

Anna Dixon

What are the prospects for health and social care in 2013?

3 Jan 2013

Richard Humphries

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Relevant events

28 Nov 2012

The King's Fund Annual Conference 2012

15 Nov 2012

The foundation trust non-executive role Meeting the challenges

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From White Paper to Act

Health and Social Care Bill

Catch up with our commentary and analysis of the Bill as it progressed through parliament.

NHS White Paper

See our involvement in the Act's first stages as the NHS White Paper.

General Election 2010

Catch up with our commentary on health issues during the General Election.

Relevant audio/video

Mike Richards: improving outcomes in the NHS

Mike Richards

Jeremy Hunt: making quality of care as important as quality of treatment

Jeremy Hunt

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Useful links

Read the Health and Social Care Act

See our consultation responses and briefings

Find out about our leadership programmes that will help you deal with the reforms

Our work on this topic

Press release

Fundamental reform of the care and support system needed, says The King's Fund

12 May 2008

Event

Breakfast discussion with the Prime Minister on the future of care and support

12 May 2008

Article

Commission quite possible

9 May 2008

Niall Dickson

Publication

Background to the NHS Next Stage Review

3 May 2008

Jo Maybin

Multimedia: Video

David Cameron: speech on the future of general practice

21 Apr 2008

David Cameron

Event

David Cameron's speech on the future of general practice

21 Apr 2008

Publication

Free choice at the point of referral

27 Mar 2008

Sarah Gregory , Ruth Thorlby

Article

Identifying the impact of government targets on waiting times in the NHS

24 Mar 2008

John Appleby , Sofia Dimakou, David Parkin, Nancy Devlin

Article

David Woodhead and Valerie James on tackling decommissioning

17 Mar 2008

Valerie James, David Woodhead

Article

Darzi review must avoid national blueprint to enable best local solutions

28 Feb 2008

Niall Dickson

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