Publications

Leaders of ten health care organisations have signed a joint open letter to MPs calling for an amendment to the Health and Care Bill that ensures the health system in England is fully staffed now and in the future.

The King’s Fund, Health Foundation and Nuffield Trust have submitted a joint letter to the Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee warning that it will take many months before NHS and social care organisations are able to fully restart services following the Covid-19 outbreak.

This article was first published on the BMJ website. General practices have been working together in primary care networks (PCNs) for more than a year, but now growing numbers of GPs are threatening to pull out of PCNs and the associated contract. Richard Murray explains how this situation has unfolded and suggests some potential solutions.

The short term hotchpot of measures taken by the government does nothing to stem the growing pressures on social care, says Richard Humphries.

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

Richard Humphries reviews recent policy initiatives to achieve the closer integration of health and social care.

We speak to Tim Kelsey, National Director for Patients and Information at NHS England, about the role of technology in improving care.

Social care for older people will be increasingly important as our population ages. So why the silence from politicians?

We speak to writer Nicci Gerrard about her father's hospital care, and her campaign – John's Campaign – that calls for the families and carers of people with dementia to be allowed to remain with them in hospital for as many hours of the day and night as necessary.

All political parties have endorsed NHS plans for greater integration of care in the next parliament. Chris Ham and colleagues use US experience to suggest what is needed to make it happen.

At the dawn of a new political administration, The King's Fund Chief Executive Niall Dickson examines the issues likely to dominate health debate in the coming months.

Richard Lewis argues that the Healthcare Commission's review offers something for both proponents and detractors.

John Appleby explores the extent to which poor performance by individual clinicians could be reflected in data available from routine NHS statistics.