Publications

In this written submission to the House of Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee, we provide an overview of the resilience of the NHS and social care workforce, including the impact of Covid-19.

In October 2020, The King’s Fund and UCL Institute of Health Equity submitted a paper to NHS England and NHS Improvement highlighting the limitations in both the coverage and quality of ethnicity recording of people using NHS health and care services in England and suggesting how this can be improved.

Our submission highlights some of the key pressures and challenges the social care sector is facing and sets out some reforms the government could make to address these issues.

The urgent action needed to stabilise general practice, by addressing workload and workforce issues, raises important questions around the timing, implementation and pace of these new service specifications even though the overall direction they set out is the right one.

This document sets out our thoughts on the Department of Health’s consultation: Liberating the NHS: No decision about me, without me.

Our data briefing looks at patterns of admissions for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions and assesses how emergency admissions could be reduced.

In this briefing for the Debate in the House of Commons, we set out our thoughts on the future of social care, the Dilnot Commission and how the integration of health and social care could be implemented.

This report from The King's Fund and Nuffield Trust is intended to support the Department of Health's development of a national strategy on integrated health and social care.

Joanna Goodrich submits our consultation on improving dignity in care to the Partnership on Dignity in Care (Age UK, NHS Confederation and Local Government Group).

The King's Fund's briefing on reconfiguration calls for radical changes to streamline the process for reorganising hospital services and to prevent politicians from blocking essential changes that would improve the quality and safety of NHS care.

The King's Fund's response to Healthy Lives, Healthy People and associated consultations on the Public Health Outcomes Framework and Funding and Commissioning Routes.

We respond to the Department of Health's consultation on Liberating the NHS: Developing the healthcare workforce

Our response to the Department of Health's public consultation on an Information Revolution, which forms part of our analysis of the health White Paper.

This paper responds to a report on medical regulation, 'Good Doctors, Safer Patients' and the review by the Department of Health on the regulation of non-medical health care professions.

This paper responds to the government's White Paper that aims to redesign community health and social care services.