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 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.

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.

In this briefing, The King’s Fund seeks to clarify whether a new government could extract the NHS from European Union procurement and competition rules.

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.

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.

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.

This report highlights the particular challenges that health care organisations in London face and suggests ways to facilitate appropriate service change.

This paper looks at the core components of a successful case management programme and considers how it can be used to deliver high-quality integrated care.

This paper, the third in a series of WSDAN briefing papers, examines the experiences of the network's 12 member sites in implementing telehealth and telecare.

Our third quarterly monitoring report provides a regular update on how the NHS is coping as it grapples with the evolving reform agenda as well as the more significant challenge of making radical improvements in productivity.

This paper, authored by Rachael Addicott and Jenny Hiley, highlights the current barriers to commissioning personalised, integrated services for end of life.