Press releases

The Conservative manifesto offers a number of welcome NHS pledges, particularly to confront the current workforce crisis, but the overall funding package pledged for frontline NHS services doesn’t represent a comprehensive funding plan that includes workforce training, capital funding, adult social care or public health, says Richard Murray.

Labour has pledged a comprehensive NHS funding offer and proposed long-overdue reform of the social care system, but the intention to repeal the 2012 Health and Social Care Act would risk a damaging and distracting top-down reorganisation of the health service, says Richard Murray.

The commitment to an extra £7 billion a year in health and care funding is welcome, but there is still a lack of a credible and comprehensive plan to address the social care crisis, says Richard Murray on the Liberal Democrat manifesto.

‘Amidst the political rhetoric of the general election campaign, today’s statistics lay bare the stark reality for patients across the country who are struggling to access NHS hospital services,' says Richard Murray, Chief Executive of The King's Fund.

Veena Raleigh, Senior Fellow at The King’s Fund, responds to new reports from The Health Foundation and London School of Economics on mortality trends in the UK.

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

These new commitments are welcome but success will hinge on the ability to recruit and retain enough GPs and professionals such as physiotherapists and pharmacists, says Richard Murray, Chief Executive of The King's Fund.

Richard Murray, Chief Executive of The King's Fund, responds to today's Queen's Speech.

‘The government should make full use of all the levers at its disposal to tackle obesity,' says Sally Warren, Director of Policy.

Today's announcement is very welcome news for the hospitals selected, the staff that work there and the patients that use them, but these piecemeal announcements are not the same as having a proper, multi-year capital funding plan, says Richard Murray.

Sally Warren, Director of Policy at The King’s Fund, responds to Labour’s social care policy announcement.

Sally Warren, Director of policy at The King’s Fund, responds to the 2019 Spending Round.

'Years of cuts to local government funding are having a real impact on services that support the wellbeing of the whole community,' says Sally Warren, Director of Policy at The King's Fund.

'For the first time the winter crisis in A&E has merged straight into a summer crisis.' Richard Murray, Chief Executive at The King’s Fund responds to today’s NHS combined performance summary.

Siva Anandaciva, Chief Analyst at The King’s Fund, comments on the government’s proposed changes to NHS pension rules.

Richard Murray, Chief Executive of The King’s Fund, comments on the government announcement of funding for the NHS and changes to NHS pensions.

David Buck, Senior Fellow at The King’s Fund, responds to the government’s open consultation ‘Advancing our health: prevention in the 2020s’

The government must make a clear and urgent commitment to restoring £1 billion of real-terms per head cuts to the public health grant which enables local authorities to deliver vital preventive services that protect and improve health.

‘Today’s figures show that in 2018 life expectancy gains in England ground to a halt,' says Dr Veena Raleigh, Senior Fellow at The King's Fund.

'The NAO has laid bare just how difficult it will be to achieve the ambitions of the NHS long-term plan given where the NHS is starting from.' Richard Murray responds to the NAO report on NHS sustainability.