Skip to main content
Home The King's Fund

Main navigation

  • Topics
    • Health and care services
      • Adult social care
      • Community services
      • Emergency care
      • General practice
      • Hospital care
      • Long-term conditions
      • Maternity services
      • Mental health
      • New models of care
      • Public health
      • Sexual health care
    • Leadership, systems and organisations
      • Clinical leadership
      • Covid-19
      • Equality and diversity
      • Integrated care
      • Organisational culture
      • Quality improvement
      • Sustainability and transformation plans
      • System leadership
      • Voluntary and community sector
      • Workforce and skills
    • Patients, people and society
      • Carers
      • Children and young people
      • Health inequalities
      • Housing
      • Older people
      • Patient experience
      • Patient involvement
      • Patient safety
      • Population health
      • Public opinion
      • Technology and data
      • Volunteers
    • Policy, finance and performance
      • Access to care
      • Brexit
      • Commissioning and contracting
      • General election 2019
      • Governance and regulation
      • NHS finances
      • NHS five year forward view
      • NHS long-term plan
      • Performance
      • Productivity
      • Social care finances
  • Publications
  • Blog
  • Health and care explained
  • Events
  • Courses
  • Consultancy and support
    • Organisational development
    • Policy and advisory services
    • Library services
  • About us
Newsletter sign up
Newsletter sign up

Publications

Independent research and analysis on health and social care

Listing Content Type

  • All publications
  • Reports
  • Long reads
  • Articles
  • Evidence and consultations
  • Commissioned reports
Share this content
  • Share on Twitter
  • Share on Facebook
  • Share on LinkedIn
  • Share on Email
  • Print this page
  • Health and care services
    • Adult social care
    • Cancer services
    • Community services
    • Emergency care
    • End-of-life care
    • General practice
    • Hospital care
    • Long-term conditions
    • Maternity services
    • Mental health
    • New models of care
    • Public health
    • Sexual health care
  • Leadership, systems and organisations
    • Clinical commissioning groups
    • Clinical leadership
    • Equality and diversity
    • (-) Health and wellbeing boards
    • Integrated care
    • Local service design
    • Patient leadership
    • Quality improvement
    • Sustainability and transformation plans
    • System leadership
    • Voluntary and community sector
    • (-) Workforce and skills
  • Patients, people and society
    • Carers
    • Children and young people
    • (-) Health inequalities
    • Housing
    • Older people
    • Patient experience
    • Patient involvement
    • Patient safety
    • Population health
    • Public opinion
    • Technology and data
    • Volunteers
  • Policy, finance and performance
    • Access to care
    • Better Care Fund
    • Brexit
    • Commissioning and contracting
    • Devolution
    • General election 2017
    • General election 2019
    • Governance and regulation
    • Health and Social Care Act 2012
    • NHS finances
    • NHS five year forward view
    • NHS long-term plan
    • Performance
    • Productivity
    • Social care finances
  • 2000
  • 2001
  • 2002
  • 2003
  • 2004
  • 2005
  • 2006
  • 2007
  • 2008
  • 2009
  • 2010
  • 2011
  • 2012
  • 2013
  • 2014
  • 2015
  • 2016
  • 2017
  • 2018
  • 2019
  • 2020
Brexit
Long read

Brexit and the end of the transition period: what does it mean for the health and care system?

On Christmas Eve 2020 a new EU-UK trade and co-operation deal was agreed. Jonathon Holmes looks at what the new deal means for the health and care system.
Thumbnail
By Jonathon Holmes - 11 January 2021
Nurse and midwife
Commissioned report

The courage of compassion: Supporting nurses and midwives to deliver high-quality care

This report, commissioned by the RCN Foundation, explores the causes and consequences of poor mental health and wellbeing among nurses and midwives, and seeks to identify solutions to these issues and examples of good practice.
Thumbnail
By Michael West et al - 23 September 2020
Long read

Deaths from Covid-19 (coronavirus): how are they counted and what do they show?

Veena Raleigh examines the methods being used to count deaths from Covid-19 and discusses what the numbers to date show.
Thumbnail
By Veena Raleigh - 19 August 2020 15-minute read
Long read

The road to renewal: five priorities for health and care

Covid-19 is the biggest challenge the health and care system has faced in living memory; it's essential that lessons are learned from this experience. So how can the system build on this learning to bring about positive change and renewal? This long read sets out five priorities to help guide the approach to renewal across health and care. 
Thumbnail
By Anna Charles et al - 16 July 2020
Article

An open letter to the Chancellor

Chief Executive of The King’s Fund, Richard Murray, has written an open letter to the Chancellor, the Right Honourable Rishi Sunak, to outline why health and care services need the stability of a multi-year funding deal.
Thumbnail
By Richard Murray - 23 November 2020
Red stethascope teaser
Long read

The updated GP contract explained

NHS England and the British Medical Association’s general practice committee have negotiated an update to the five-year GP contract framework published in January 2019. This explainer outlines the changes and explains what they mean for the future of general practice.
Thumbnail
By Beccy Baird et al - 19 November 2020
Evidence and consultation

Response to the Health and Social Care Select Committee inquiry into workforce burnout and resilience in the NHS and social care

In this written submission to the House of Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee, we provide an overview of the resilience of the NHS and social care workforce, including the impact of Covid-19.
16 October 2020
Long read

What is happening to life expectancy in the UK?

2011 marked a turning point in long-term mortality trends in the UK, with improvements tailing off after decades of steady decline. Veena Raleigh examines the trends in life expectancy.
Thumbnail
By Veena Raleigh - 26 June 2020
Evidence and consultation

Response to the Health and Social Care Select Committee inquiry on social care: funding and workforce

Our submission highlights some of the key pressures and challenges the social care sector is facing and sets out some reforms the government could make to address these issues.
18 June 2020
Article

Tackling UK’s mortality problem: Covid-19 and other causes

In an article for the BMJ, Veena Raleigh argues for improved mortality data to help fight Covid-19 and understand the longer term trend of stalling life expectancy in the UK.
Thumbnail
By Veena Raleigh - 12 June 2020
First 100 days of new government
Long read

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

We provide a record of the progress made towards meeting the government’s manifesto pledges and campaign commitments during its first 100 days in office.
Thumbnail
By Jonathon Holmes - 27 March 2020
What role to taxes and regulation play in promoting better health?
Report

What role do taxes and regulation play in promoting better health?

It’s an issue that has generated heated debate – so how can regulatory and fiscal policy tools be used to improve people’s health? This briefing explores the role these tools might play.
Thumbnail
By Jake Beech et al - 6 March 2020
Delivering health and care for people who sleep rough: going above and beyond
Report

Delivering health and care for people who sleep rough: going above and beyond

People who sleep rough have some of the worst health outcomes in England. We explore how four local areas are delivering effective health and care services to people sleeping rough and what other areas might be able to learn from them.
Thumbnail
By Julia Cream et al - 3 March 2020
What are health inequalities?
Long read

What are health inequalities?

This explainer provides an overview of how health inequalities are experienced in England’s population.
Thumbnail
By Ethan Williams et al - 18 February 2020
Article

Public health funding uncertainty is hitting hard

This article was first published on the LGC website. The lack of news from the government about the public health grant contrasts with the long term certainly it has given the NHS, writes Sally Warren.
Thumbnail
By Sally Warren - 31 January 2020
Evidence and consultation

Network contract directed enhanced service: draft outline service specifications

The urgent action needed to stabilise general practice, by addressing workload and workforce issues, raises important questions around the timing, implementation and pace of these new service specifications even though the overall direction they set out is the right one.
17 January 2020
The economic influence of the NHS at the local level
Long read

The economic influence of the NHS at the local level

As the biggest employer in England and a significant economic force in local communities, the NHS has a unique opportunity to influence the wellbeing of the population it serves. David Maguire looks at how the NHS can affect the health of their local population as an economic agent.
Thumbnail
By David Maguire - 16 January 2020
Long read

Health and wellbeing boards and integrated care systems

In the last several years there have been significant changes in how the NHS works across different services and with external partners such as local government. Richard Humphries explores how this has impacted health and wellbeing boards, and what the future holds for them.
Thumbnail
By Richard Humphries - 13 November 2019
Evidence and consultation

Our response to the Migration Advisory Committee consultation

The King’s Fund response to the Migration Advisory Committee’s call for evidence on salary thresholds and a points-based system in immigration controls highlights two considerations that we believe should be taken into account for the health and social care sectors: the importance of the context provided by workforce projections and the need for policy decisions to be part of a much broader policy response to the workforce crisis in health and social care.
6 November 2019
Evidence and consultation

Advancing our health: prevention in the 2020s consultation

Our response to the government's consultation paper on prevention focuses on the additional areas we would like future government policy to cover.
14 October 2019
Article

Life expectancy in England: what's going on?

The latest life expectancy data from the Office for National Statistics doesn't provide much to celebrate, as Veena Raleigh's explains in her latest article for the BMJ.
Thumbnail
By Veena Raleigh et al - 1 October 2019
Healthy places podcast
Report

Creating healthy places: perspectives from NHS England’s Healthy New Towns programme

Creating healthy places: perspectives from NHS England’s Healthy New Towns programme provides personal insights from those involved in the programme, illustrating how powerful a coherent local approach to improving population health can be.
Thumbnail
By Chris Naylor - 26 September 2019
Article

The impact of a no deal Brexit on health and care: an open letter to MPs

The King's Fund, alongside the Health Foundation and Nuffield Trust, summarise the four major areas where the impact of a no deal Brexit could be felt most sharply in health and care. 
Thumbnail
By Richard Murray et al - 3 September 2019
Closing the gap: Key areas for action on the health and care workforce
Report

Closing the gap: key areas for action on the health and care workforce

Staffing is the make-or-break issue for the NHS in England. In this joint report with the Nuffield Trust and the Health Foundation, we set out the policy actions that need to be at the heart of the workforce implementation plan due to be published later this year.
Thumbnail
By Jake Beech et al - 21 March 2019
Viewing 1 - 20 of 109

Pagination

  • Previous page
  • Current page 1
  • Page 2
  • Page 3
  • Page 4
  • Page 5
  • Page 6
  • Next page

Subscribe to our Weekly Update newsletter

""

Health and care explained: How does the health and care system work? How is it changing?

This selection of content aims to make sense of the health and care system – including videos, articles, illustrated summaries and more.

Got a question? Ask a librarian

Quick links

  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Corporate partners
  • Job vacancies
  • Multimedia
  • Press centre
  • Projects
  • Who's who

Connect with us

  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Youtube

Latest Tweet

Weekly Update newsletter

Subscribe for a weekly round-up of our latest news and content

Footer

  • Privacy notice and cookies
  • Accessibility
  • Terms and conditions
  • Comments policy
  • Copyright
© The King's Fund 2021 Registered charity: 1126980