Projects | The King's Fund

A programme with NHS Improvement to support culture change through collective leadership

Our work on a two-year programme with NHS Improvement to help trusts develop a culture that enables and sustains safe, high-quality, compassionate care.

Completed project

Integrating physical and mental health

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

Completed project

CQC provider ratings and their impact on care quality

Research examining how health and social care providers, the public and other key stakeholders have responded to Care Quality Commission performance ratings.

Completed project

Spending Review 2015

By setting out how much funding will be available up to 2019/20, the Spending Review has defined the context in which health and care services are delivered for the rest of the parliament.

Completed project

Could online user-generated content revolutionise health services?

In partnership with the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media (CASM) at Demos, we studied the ability of big data analytics to make use of citizen-generated health data.

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.

Completed project

Measuring the performance of local health systems

In June 2015, The King's Fund was commissioned by the Department of Health to review how the performance of local health systems could be assessed.

Completed project

The sustainability of social care services

A research project, working in partnership with the Nuffield Trust, to understand the effects of public spending reductions on social care services.

Completed project

Older people’s experiences of district nursing services

This project was done to improve our understanding of quality in district nursing services by learning from the experiences of older people receiving care, their informal carers and district nursing staff.

Completed project

Improving NHS culture

It is now accepted that healthy cultures in NHS organisations are crucial to ensuring the delivery of high-quality patient care. So which characteristics are fundamental to a healthy culture?

Completed project

Pressures in general practice

This project aims to increase our understanding of the workload in general practice and why GPs report feeling under so much pressure, and to make recommendations about what might be done.

Completed project

Health and social care: the first 100 days of the new government

After 100 days in office, the new government's plans for health and social care are beginning to take shape. Here we explore the measures that have been announced so far.

Completed project

Learning network on integrated housing, care and health

The National Housing Federation and The King's Fund launched a joint learning network on integrated housing, care and health.

Completed project

Health and social care under the new government

Priorities and selected commentary/analysis for the new government, which takes up office with the NHS facing its biggest challenges for many years, while pressures on social care are escalating.

Leadership in action

This series of publications offers practical advice for leaders in health and social care (including board members) to improve their leadership skills.

Completed project

Where do the parties stand on health?

A downloadable round-up of the main five parties' policy pledges on health and social care based on their manifestos for the 2015 general election.

The NHS in a nutshell

Essential facts and figures to understand how the NHS works

Completed project

The NHS after the Health and Social Care Act

The Health and Social Care Act 2012 created the most wide-ranging reforms to the NHS, since it was founded in 1948. We look at six key aspects of the new NHS after the Act came into force.

Completed project

Women in medicine

A collection of blogs, films and infographics exploring issues facing women in health and care.