Press releases

Siva Anandaciva, Chief Analyst at The King’s Fund, comments on today’s Budget statement.

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.

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

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

Sally Warren, Director of Policy at The King’s Fund, comments on the 2019 Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) budget survey,

‘The problems facing Four Seasons show the extreme pressure that the social care system in England is under,' says Simon Bottery at The King's Fund.

Rising disability among working-age adults and a growth in the number of people over 65 is putting rising pressure on the adult social care system in England, new analysis from The King's Fund finds.

Responding to today’s update on Allied Healthcare from the Care Quality Commission (CQC), Simon Bottery, Senior Fellow at The King’s Fund, said: 'Over 13,000 people who rely on Allied Healthcare for care and support will be wondering what today’s warning from the CQC means for them.'

Responding to today’s Budget, Richard Murray, Director of Policy at The King’s Fund, said, 'The social care system cannot continue to get by on last-minute, piecemeal funding announcements.'

"This latest evidence, from every council in England, lays bare once again the need for, as the Prime Minister put it herself, a proper plan to pay for and provide social care"

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. 

The additional money for the NHS is welcome, but it is still significantly less than the £4 billion we estimate the NHS needs next year.

The Green Paper will only be meaningful if it results in a fundamental reform to the social care system, says Simon Bottery.

The government must find at least £4 billion more for the NHS in the Budget to stop patient care deteriorating next year, three leading health charities warn today.

Chris Ham comments on the health and social care proposals laid out by the Conservative Party's manifesto ahead of the general election.

The Communities and Local Government Select Committee has today published a report calling for major reform of social care funding and provision.

Chris Ham, Chief Executive of The King's Fund, gives his response to the Spring Budget 2017.

Richard Humphries comments on the Communities and Local Government Committee's pre-Budget report on adult social care.

Chris Ham responds to a letter on health and social funding written to the Prime Minister by the chairs of three House of Commons Select Committees.

Richard Murray, Director of Policy for The King's Fund, comments on the Autumn Statement 2016.