Press releases

‘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.

‘Despite a mild winter, today’s figures reveal a hidden crisis in hospitals up and down the country,' says Deborah Ward, Senior Analyst at The King’s Fund.

Richard Murray, Chief Executive at The King's Fund, responds to plans to pilot changes to NHS waiting times targets.

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.

'Today’s figures reveal a hidden crisis that is all too real in emergency departments up and down the country,' says Siva Anandaciva, Chief Analyst at The King's Fund.

Our latest quarterly monitoring report also finds that despite NHS England meeting its commitment to increase its investment in mental health, nearly a quarter of mental health trusts recorded a reduction in income between 2016/17 and 2017/18.

‘The first set of winter statistics show the NHS already under tremendous strain and patients waiting longer and longer for care,' says Siva Anandaciva, Chief Analyst at The King’s Fund.

Dr Veena Raleigh, Senior Fellow at The King’s Fund, comments on Public Health England’s review of recent trends in mortality in England.

'These figures are particularly worrying for the UK which, after decades of progress, is seeing life expectancy improvements grind to a halt', says Dr Veena Raleigh, Senior Fellow at The King’s Fund.

Today’s report from NHS Improvement on the performance of the NHS provider sector in the second quarter of 2018, is a warning that the NHS is heading for another very tough winter, with rising demand for services and staff shortages taking an increasingly heavy toll on patient care.

Dr Veena Raleigh, Senior Fellow at The King's Fund, responds to the latest ONS data on UK life expectancy.

Siva Anandaciva, Chief Analyst at The King’s Fund, responds to the report on NHS provider performance in the first quarter of 2018/19.

The government must look at what the NHS needs to do to change how care is delivered and to guarantee that the right workforce is available into the future

Findings of a landmark new analysis of the NHS in an international context, published for the BBC as part of their programming for the NHS’s 70th birthday.

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.

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

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.

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.