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The King's Fund position: what do we think about key health and care issues?

Do you want to know what The King’s Fund thinks about the big issues in health and care? Here we set out our views on a range of topics, based on our research and policy analysis as well as the work we do with individuals and organisations in the health and care system. Now including our position on mental health, public health and integrated care.

How are ICSs tackling workforce challenges?

Through this project, The King’s Fund will explore how the local partners involved in ICSs are working together to tackle problems that are system wide, and hence require a system-wide solution.

The King's Fund's priorities for health and care at the next general election

In the run up to the anticipated 2024 general election, The King’s Fund will explore what national government can do to improve health and care in England, consider political parties’ policy proposals, and make sense of the national debate.

The future of public health and population health leadership

Through this project, The King’s Fund will explore how public health and population health leaders can work – and are working – together well in the emerging health and care context.

Young people in the adult social care workforce

To expand our understanding of the challenges and opportunities in social care, The King’s Fund is undertaking a major new piece of research focusing on the young people who may make up the next generation of the social care workforce.

Reflecting on 75 years of the NHS

Reflecting on 75 years of the NHS

Throughout 2023, we will be reflecting on 75 years of the NHS, the challenges its faced and is facing and explore what the future looks like for the national health service.

The way forward: realising the vision of care closer to home

Successive governments have been clear about what health and care services should look like: co-ordinated, personalised and responsive care closer to home. We want to understand why the ambition to provide care closer to home has not been achieved.

Pride: Tackling LGBTQ+ health inequalities

A selection of our work highlighting the challenges the LGBTQ+ community faces in health and care.

Reflecting on 75 years since the arrival of Windrush

Reflecting on 75 years since the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush

We're marking 75 years since the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush to the UK by celebrating the contribution made by the Windrush generation and their descendants to the NHS, as well as highlighting the challenges they've faced.

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Reflecting on 75 years of social care: from the National Assistance Act to the present day

Over the next three months, we will be reflecting on the changes those 75 years have brought and where the health and care system in England is now, starting with social care.

Health inequalities and the elective backlog

The Health Foundation has commissioned The King’s Fund to explore how providers and ICSs are working to address their elective care backlog inclusively to inform future policy developments.

Inclusion health at scale: beyond pockets of excellence

The King’s Fund is working in a new partnership with Pathway and with Groundswell to build a community of leadership practice across seven integrated care systems to explore how to develop consistently good services to each group within the inclusion health population and how to scale up good practice examples to achieve system-wide success.

Completed project

Research into independent care (education) and treatment reviews (IC(E)TRs)

This research project is part of a review by the Department of Health and Social Care of the IC(E)TR process. An IC(E)TR is a meeting to talk about the care of someone with a learning disability or autism who has been kept on their own in a room for more than two days at a time and they involve an independent chair and a Mental Health Act reviewer.

Tackling poverty: how can collaboration and data help drive success?

The King’s Fund worked in partnership with the Centre for Progressive Policy to look at how data can inform priorities, challenge effectiveness and promote action on tackling poverty.

Completed project

The role of NHS commissioners in assuring the quality of end-of-life care for people who die at home

Our project explored how NHS and local authority commissioners in England measure and assure the quality of the end-of-life care and support provided to patients who die at home.

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Completed project

Supporting digital inclusion in health care

We are undertaking a research project that aims to improve knowledge of the unique ways technology can exclude but also include people and communities.

Completed project

The young workforce in the health and social care sectors

This work was commissioned by the Prince's Trust to undertake exploratory research into the young workforce in the health and social care sectors.

Completed project

Partnering for inclusion: improving disabled people’s experiences of health and care services

Our project with Disability Rights UK to explore what good partnership working between disabled people and health and care systems looks like.

Completed project

Digital technologies and interoperability: enabling the future of integrated care

This research project will review existing policy-led interoperability solutions to provide an insight into the challenges that remain around enabling integrated care through interoperable digital systems.

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Completed project

The Health and Care Act 2022: our work to inform and make sense of the legislation

Explore our latest content and commentary to help you make sense of the Health and Care Act 2022.

Healthy Communities Together

The King's Fund and The National Lottery Community Fund (TNLCF) have joined forces to support genuine partnership-working in local areas between the voluntary and community sector, the NHS and local authorities to improve the health and wellbeing of local communities.

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