Press releases

The Health Foundation and The King’s Fund have highlighted a worrying lack of progress on social care reform, in extensive new analysis of funding pressures and options for change. 

Today’s figures show it was yet another dismal month for patients, with one in six now waiting longer than six months to begin treatment, says Richard Murray.

NHS funding levels are failing to keep pace with growth in NHS spending on medicines, potentially compromising patients’ access to drugs, our research finds.

Siva Anandaciva, Chief Analyst, comments on the latest NHS performance data.

The King’s Fund has announced that Suzie Bailey has been appointed as its new Director of Leadership and Organisational Development. Suzie, who is currently Director of Leadership and Quality Improvement at NHS Improvement, will join The King’s Fund in July 2018.

The Prime Minister’s announcement is a welcome recognition that the NHS can no longer maintain standards of care with the funding it has been given, says Chris Ham.

It is deeply worrying that the historical trend of a falling infant mortality rate seems to have stalled, says David Buck.

Eight charities from across the UK have won a prestigious national award for improving health and wellbeing in their communities. The charities have each won a 2018 GSK IMPACT Award, run in partnership with The King’s Fund, and will receive £30,000 as part of the prize.

The proportion of people waiting more than four hours in A&E is the highest on record, and this shows that pressure on A&Es in February was the worst it has been for well over a decade.

The King’s Fund is calling on the NHS to ensure that the way waiting time targets are implemented prevents increasing numbers of patients from facing long waits for hospital treatment.

The NHS as a whole has done extremely well over the last few years in improving levels of staff engagement despite the huge pressure it faces, says Dan Wellings.

Some of the latest ONS figures on life expectancy are an indictment of a lack of government focus and ambition on tackling health inequalities over a number of years, says David Buck.

Public satisfaction with the NHS has dropped 6 percentage points in a year, taking it to 57 per cent - its lowest level since 2011. That’s according to analysis of the latest British Social Attitudes survey.

The latest quarterly performance report from NHS Improvement underlines yet again that the service does not have enough money or staff to do everything being asked of it, says Richard Murray.

Richard Murray, Director of Policy, responds to the latest hospital performance data.

Chris Ham comments on the National Audit Office report on sustainability and transformation in the NHS.

The spending gap between NHS acute hospitals and NHS mental health providers widened further last year, our new report finds.

Richard Murray, Director of Policy for The King’s Fund, responds to the latest NHS waiting time figures.

The King’s Fund has today responded to the latest winter situation report from NHS England.