Publications

Chief Executive of The King’s Fund, Richard Murray, has written an open letter to the Chancellor, the Right Honourable Rishi Sunak, to outline why health and care services need the stability of a multi-year funding deal.

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 LGC website. The lack of news from the government about the public health grant contrasts with the long term certainly it has given the NHS, writes Sally Warren.

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 King's Fund, alongside the Health Foundation and Nuffield Trust, summarise the four major areas where the impact of a no deal Brexit could be felt most sharply in health and care. 

Ben Fuchs is a Senior Consultant in our Leadership and Organisational Development team. Ahead of our annual leadership summit on compassionate and inclusive leadership, we explore why it’s important for those in management and leadership roles to be aware of potential blind spots.

It is critical that primary care networks are not set up to fail by taking on too many tasks too quickly.

Niall Dickson and Jennifer Dixon argue that the government needs to focus on improving health to avoid costly hospitalisation.

As we reach the end of the financial year, Niall Dickson warns there could be even more stories of deficits, wards being closed and staff being cut.

Niall Dickson argues that there is now a glimmer of hope that care really can be transformed. But the details of the Wanless report and other recent studies show just how big and deep-rooted the current problems are.

The NHS is doing its best to grapple with deficit, but the real pain of doing so will now be felt in the next financial year, argues John Appleby.

To assess what we get for our money we need more than simple activity data, argues John Appleby.

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

John Appleby looks at the pattern of spending on the NHS since the 1950s and considers what level of spending the UK economy could support over the next 50 years.