Publications

Paul Radin speaks to us about his experience of patient involvement at The King’s Fund.

We examine the big issues and recent NHS performance on waiting times.

Services are at full stretch and struggling to maintain standards, says Chris Ham.

We talk to Matthew Lanham, Chief Executive of the Neuromuscular Centre – a charity that won a GSK IMPACT Award in recognition of its work to improve people's health.

In July NHS England published its first 'progress dashboard' for the 44 new sustainability and transformation partnerships, but these new ratings are narrowly focused and centrally driven, say Hugh Alderwick and Veena Raleigh.

Ahead of our Digital Health and Care Congress in July, we speak to Helen Arthur about how the vanguards are applying technology and what other areas can learn from them.

Ahead of the general election, we look at how the NHS compares with international health systems.

Dan Wellings reviews the polls to uncover what the public are looking for from politicians when it comes to the NHS.

Ahead of the general election, we consider what policies are needed to improve children's health.

Ahead of the general election, we explore whether the government met its pledge to tackle childhood obesity.

This report explores whether machine learning can help find wider meaning in millions of unstructured online conversations about mental health.

The government should heed the warning signs and embark on fundamental reform.

This report, for the World Innovation Summit for Health 2016, sets out a framework for developing new strategies to improve population health that join up healthcare systems with other services and sectors.

Ahead of our Digital Health and Care Congress in July, we speak to Dame Fiona Caldicott about data-sharing and security in health and care.

Mark Doughty discusses progress made by The King's Fund's Leading collaboratively with patients and communities programme.

In this article for the British Medical Journal, Chris Ham reviews fundamental changes in how services are managed and where decisions are taken, as concerns continue to grow about deteriorating performance in the NHS.

In this article for the British Medical Journal, John Appleby considers the implications of recent government policy to move towards a seven-day NHS.

The Care Quality Commission's State of Care report has both reassuring and disturbing messages: reassuring in that the majority of services are good, but disturbing in that there is significant variation in quality and particularly safety.

Is enough emphasis and thought devoted to leadership styles, the culture this creates and whether this fully reflects the organisation’s aims and ethos?