Publications

The King's Fund has come together the Nuffield Trust and the Health Foundation to publish a briefing on the impact of the Spending Review on health and social care.

Our report looks at the data from inpatient surveys over a nine-year period and discusses what the data tells us about the national picture of care in the NHS and what it reveals about trends for individual trusts over time.

Southcentral Foundation's redesign of the health care system in Alaska is widely regarded as one of the most successful examples of its kind in the United States and internationally. What can the English NHS learn from Southcentral's experiences?

Our report looks at how NHS organisations can move towards place-based systems of care, in which NHS organisations and services work together to address the challenges they collectively face. The report suggests 10 principles to guide the development of such systems.

A statement from the Barker Commission to the Chancellor ahead of the Spending Review on the state of social care and its funding.

The NHS is now entering seriously dangerous financial territory which will have ramifications for patients and for all levels of NHS management.

This report reviews 20 mergers involving NHS trusts and foundation trusts between 2010 and mid-2015 and asks whether mergers are always the best way forward.

This report from David Buck and David Maguire explores how the relationship between income deprivation and life expectancy has changed over time and looks at the impact of other variables such as employment, housing deprivation, binge drinking and diet.

Our report, in partnership with the Health Foundation, calls for a dedicated Transformation Fund to finance and drive forward essential changes to services.

With the majority of trusts forecasting deficits and no prospect of extra funding, it is clear that the NHS is heading for a financial crunch by the end of the year.

The NHS is being asked to make large productivity savings. This report argues that, rather than looking at efficiency and costs, the NHS should be focusing on getting better value from its budget.

Health care commissioners will need to deliver a sustainable system in the face of the most challenging financial and organisational environment seen in decades. Here, we set out ten priorities for commissioners to help them drive forward the changes needed.

With support for health and social care to have a single ring-fenced budget and a single local commissioner growing, this report looks at the options available for integrated commissioning.

Mounting deficits, worsening performance and declining staff morale leave the NHS facing its biggest challenges for many years, according to our latest quarterly monitoring report.

This report looks at how well the NHS has performed under the coalition government. Using routinely available data, the report creates a conventional 'production path' – describing the financial inputs to the NHS before detailing its outputs, such as hospital admissions and A&E attendances.

This report looks at lessons from case studies where acute hospitals are working collaboratively with local partners to build integrated models of care.

This paper aims to challenge those involved in integrated care and public health to join up the dots, seeing integrated care as part of a broader shift away from fragmentation towards an approach focused on improving population health.

Our report calls for fundamental changes to how health services are commissioned, paid for and regulated to deliver the vision of the NHS five year forward view.

The results and satisfaction trends relating to the NHS and health care issues from the British Social Attitudes survey 2014.

Our latest survey of finance directors shows a deepening pessimism about the current financial state of health organisations and worries about the coming financial year.