Projects | The King's Fund

Mortality rates in the UK: why are improvements in life expectancy slowing down?

With life expectancy lower and improvements in mortality rates weaker in the UK than in many European countries, we want to establish what's happening, why and what can be done to reverse these trends.

Supporting the Healthy New Towns programme

We are working with NHS England and other partners to support the Healthy New Towns programme. The programme provides an important opportunity to learn how local areas can use major new housing developments as an opportunity to promote population health and deliver integrated care.

Completed project

Innovative models of care delivery in general practice

We look at innovative models of general practice from the UK and other countries and identify key design features we believe will be important in designing effective GP services in the future.

A vision for population health in England

This project aims to set out a vision for the public health system and population health, which we will use to inform and influence the debate about the future of public health.

Governing for health in global cities: lessons for, and from, London

This project aims to support leaders in London and elsewhere to develop successful approaches for population health improvement in complex urban environments.

Completed project

Embedding enhanced health care in care homes

This project aims to help providers and commissioners to develop local approaches to improving integration of health and care services in care homes.

What is social care?

Completed project

What is social care and how does it work?

Our series of short videos and related content is intended to help clarify what social care is, how it’s provided and paid for, and how it works with the NHS and other services.

Frontline clinical care in acute hospitals

Our research looks at pressures on frontline clinical care in acute hospitals.

Completed project

A vision for the future of community-based health services

Our work to develop a vision for the future of community-based health services.

Quality improvement in mental health care

Our project focuses on clinical and non-clinical leaders in NHS mental health care trusts to understand how they can help build a culture of quality improvement within their organisations.

Completed project

The NHS five year forward view

The NHS five year forward view set out a positive vision for the future based around seven new models of care. Here we highlight our research, analysis, events and other content relevant to the main themes in the report.

Completed project

The evolving NHS

The NHS is evolving. Following the publication of the NHS five year forward view, a number of vanguard sites are developing new models of care in which commissioners and providers are working together in different ways to achieve closer integration of services. This change is happening quickly and has significant implications for the health and care system.

Completed project

The future of HIV services in England

This project, funded by the MAC AIDS Fund, will look across the HIV pathway from prevention to treatment and ongoing support, and consider how system-level policy developments apply to HIV services.

Completed project

Mental health in the vanguards

The King's Fund is working in partnership with the Royal College of Psychiatrists to understand the extent to which opportunities for mental and physical health integration are being realised in the vanguard sites.

Completed project

Volunteering in general practice

This project brings together information on volunteering in general practice across England.

Completed project

Carter review on productivity in NHS hospitals

A selection of our work on topics related to the Carter review of efficiency in NHS hospitals: value, productivity and variations in health care.

Our work with CQC on a tool to assess leadership and culture in primary health care

We've partnered with the Care Quality Commission to develop a self-assessment tool aimed at improving leadership and culture in primary health care.

Completed project

Integrating physical and mental health

This project explored what an integrated approach towards physical and mental health should involve.

Supporting new NHS care models

The King's Fund is working with NHS and care organisations to support the development of the new care models set out in the NHS five year forward view.

Alternative guides to health care

Four animations that explain how the health and care system in England works, including the NHS as a whole, urgent and emergency care and mental health.