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

Article

Effect of diverging policy across the NHS

21 Oct 2005

Arturo Alvarez-Rosete, Jennifer Dixon, Gwyn Bevan, Nicholas Mays

Publication

Putting Health in Local Hands

13 Oct 2005

Richard Lewis, Lisa Hinton

Article

Reforming the NHS in England

7 Oct 2005

Jennifer Dixon

Publication

Incentives for Reform in the NHS

29 Sep 2005

Jenny Grant

Publication

NHS Market Futures

12 Sep 2005

Richard Lewis, Jennifer Dixon

Project

Wanless Social Care Review

28 Aug 2005

Press release

Major restructuring could jeopardise NHS reform agenda, warns The King's Fund

28 Jul 2005

Press release

Finances put NHS reforms at risk, warns The King's Fund

27 Jul 2005

Press release

Foundation hospitals make encouraging start but jury still out on overall impact, says The King's Fund

5 Jul 2005

Press release

The King's Fund message to new health secretary - don't falter now on radical vision for health

11 May 2005

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