Publications

The 70th anniversary of the NHS is an opportunity to reflect on its enduring popularity and to ask what people can expect from the service and what their obligations are in return, says Chris Ham.

In light of recent announcements, Harry Evans argues it is now time for the NHS to step out of the shadow of past implementation failures.

An open letter to the Prime Minister from The King's Fund, The Nuffield Trust and The Health Foundation about a long-term funding settlement for the NHS.

When MPs from different parties come together to argue for more funding for the NHS and social care then it's time to sit up and take notice, says Chris Ham.

Test bed initiatives show that, beyond technology, pathway transformation is what leads to the real change.

Why do delayed transfers of care occur? And what is the impact on the wider health system? We answer some key questions.

Local government’s relationship with the NHS will be 95 years old in 2043 – by then we will know whether the 2012 Health and Social Care Act really was a game-changing shift in the relationship between these two great public service silos.

Since 2003, when the previous Health and Social Care Act created the concept of foundation trust governors, their role has been frequently debated but seen by many as offering only a weak form of accountability.

In this article for the British Medical Journal, Chris Ham considers the choices facing providers who are struggling to balance budgets and protect patient safety and quality of care.

Regardless of their shape or size, building and maintaining strong relationships with GPs is a key challenge for new clinical commissioning groups, write Holly Holder and Shilpa Ross

Angela Coulter writes about the house of care, a new model which places the patient at the heart of the delivery system and encourages personalised care planning.

Relationships between councils and clinical commissioning groups are getting better, but there are big challenges ahead, says Richard Humphries.

In the latest edition of our Insight magazine, we talk to Nigel Edwards, Senior Fellow at The King's Fund, about the problems often faced by smaller hospitals and how these problems could be overcome.

All four UK health services face the same problems. Yet none of them is learning from the others about the best approaches, says Nick Timmins.

Clinical commissioning groups offer GPs the chance to be more involved in transforming primary care.

There is a pressing need for clinical expertise to be harnessed more effectively in the commissioning of health services, and CCGs potentially provide a way through which this can happen.

Jeremy Hunt's acrimonious exchanges with Andy Burnham this week were the start of something much bigger, says Chris Ham.

This report from the Nuffield Trust and The King’s Fund examines the new GP organisations forming to allow care provision at greater scale.