Publications

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.

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

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.

This report look at past experience with NHS workforce planning and the challenges facing workforce planning in the future, in the light of changing health care needs and the need to deliver the future care models outlines in the NHS five year forward view. The report focuses on three areas key to providing integrated care: mental health, primary care and community nursing.

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.

A report from the Nuffield Trust and The King’s Fund finds that CCGs risk becoming unsustainable without changes to the way they attract leaders and adequate funding to help them expand their remit.

Written halfway through the 2010–2015 parliament, this review considers how the NHS is performing under the coalition government, following on from The King’s Fund’s major review of NHS performance from 1997 to 2010.

Using data for more than 8,000 general practices in England, this paper examines the association between patients’ perceptions about the non-clinical aspects of care and practice performance on measures of clinical quality.

This paper explores how the current health and social care delivery system has failed to keep pace with the population's needs and expectations.

This paper explores factors that might be driving the significant variation in use of hospital beds by patients over 65 admitted as an emergency.

With the Francis Inquiry report due in the autumn, we set out our views on how the system of quality assurance needs to evolve and how it should operate.

The topline results and satisfaction trends relating to the NHS and health care issues from the British Social Attitudes survey 2011.

Our paper calls for doctors to aspire to the same standards of excellence in diagnosing patients' preferences for their care as they do to diagnosing disease.

The second Richmond Group report is intended to offer a clear strategic direction to achieve transformational change in the health and social care system.