Press releases

Richard Murray, Chief Executive of The King’s Fund, comments on Labour’s pledge to boost health care funding,

Sally Warren, Director of Policy at The King’s Fund, responds to the new State of care report from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Beccy Baird, Senior Fellow at the King’s Fund, comments on the British Social Attitudes survey of public attitudes to emergency care.

Public satisfaction with the NHS has fallen to its lowest level since 2007, according to analysis of the 2018 British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey published today by The King’s Fund and the Nuffield Trust.

Richard Murray, Director of Policy at The King’s Fund, comments on the Care Quality Commission's State of Care report.

CQC's ‘Ofsted-style’ inspection and rating regime is a significant improvement on the system it replaced, but it could be made more effective, according to the first major evaluation of the approach introduced in 2013 by The King's Fund and Alliance Manchester Business School.

The government should look beyond the NHS and focus on a range of policies to improve the public’s health, including making effective use of tax and regulation, according to a new briefing from four leading research organisations.

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 NHS England Board meeting is welcome recognition that we need to begin a discussion with the public about what the NHS can be expected to provide with the funds it has been given, says Chris Ham.

The British public’s satisfaction with the NHS remained steady in 2016, according to data published today by The King’s Fund.

The care and support older people receive increasingly depends on where they live and how much money they have rather than their needs, according to a new report by The King's Fund and the Nuffield Trust.

The approach to performance assessment in the NHS requires radical simplification and alignment in future, a review by The King's Fund finds.

Politicians’ role in the running of the National Health Service (NHS) needs to be better defined to counter interventionist and centralising tendencies that have hampered effective reform to date, says a new report by The King’s Fund.

Our new report finds that revalidation has been successful in driving compliance in the appraisal process for doctors but advises leaders not to ‘rest on their laurels’.

A fundamental shift is urgently needed in the delivery of health and care to meet the challenges of a rapidly ageing society, say the authors of a new report from The King's Fund.

Our response to the House of Lords Public Service and Demographic Change Committee's report - Ready for Ageing?

Anna Dixon gives the Fund's response to Jeremy Hunt's speech at the 2012 Conservative Party Conference.

Anna Dixon, Director of Policy at The King's Fund, comments on the publication of the Public Accounts Committee's report on the performance of the Care Quality Commission.

Two reports published by the Fund highlight how frail older people are being moved around from pillar to post in hospital because of a lack of care continuity.

Chief Executive of The King’s Fund, Chris Ham responds to the Public Accounts Committee’s report on achievement of foundation trust status by NHS hospital trusts