Explore our latest commentary and analysis on the 2021 Health and Care Bill by visiting our project page.
The Health and Social Care Bill represented the biggest shake-up of the NHS since its inception, and was implemented against the backdrop of the biggest financial challenge in its history. Read our commentary and analysis on the Bill before it became the Health and Social Care Act.
Our response to the Bill
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The Health and Social Care Bill: report stage in the House of Lords - service reconfiguration and the failure regime
This briefing focuses on the implications of the Health and Social Care Bill for service reconfigurations and for the failure regime for providers that are financially unsustainable.
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The Health and Social Care Bill - Second Reading in the House of Lords
In this briefing for the Second Reading in the House of Lords we set out our views on suggested reforms from the Health and Social Care Bill, including regulation, choice of provider and...
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The Health and Social Care Bill report and third reading: Briefing
Despite recent amendments to the Bill, following the recommendations from the NHS Future Forum, we are still concerned that the scale of the structural changes set out in the Bill. In th...
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Briefing: The Health and Social Care Bill - Recommital to Public Bill Committee
This briefing represents our full response to the changes made to the Health and Social Care Bill, including our concern that the scale of the reforms and the challenges associated with ...
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Where next for the NHS reforms? The case for integrated care
Written as a contribution to the government's current listening exercise, this paper sets out the challenges facing the NHS and identifies the reforms we believe are needed to meet these...
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Briefing: Health and Social Care Bill
A summary of The King's Fund's views on the Health and Social Care Bill, this briefing sets out our thoughts on commissioning, market-based and provider reforms and public health.
Our consultation responses and evidence submissions
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Submission to the Co-operation and Competition Panel: Any willing provider
Our review of the operation of any willing provider for the provision of routine elective care: interim assessment.
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Public Bill Committee submission on part three of the Health and Social Care Bill
This submission focuses on Part three of the Health and Social Care Bill, which sets out the legislative framework for the economic regulation of health and social care.
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House of Commons Health Committee follow-up inquiry into commissioning
Our response to the House of Commons Health Committee follow-up inquiry into commissioning.
Other project content
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NHS reform mythbusters
With the listening exercise on the Health and Social Care Bill in full swing, we thought it would be useful to pick up - and debunk - some of the myths that have been generated in the de...
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NHS Future Forum: reports, recommendation and responses
The NHS Future Forum has published key recommendations to the government on the future for NHS modernisation, find out more about this and our response.
House of Commons Health Committee follow-up inquiry into commissioning
As part of the listening exercise, Steve Field and the NHS Future Forum launched their recommendations for the Health and Social Care Bill at The King's Fund in June 2011. You can watch the launch event and hear our initial response and those of other organisations.
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