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 King's Fund produced this briefing ahead of the second reading of the NHS Funding Bill in the House of Commons.

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.

Produced for the Westminster Hall Debate, this briefing considers the impact of the recent Spending Review on the Department of Health.

Our evidence submission to the Health Select Committee Inquiry into Commissioning highlighted our concerns for the implementation of the suggested reforms and the lack of clinical expertise currently seen in commissioning.

This paper is a formal response to the Department of Health's public consultation on Commissioning for patients, that sets out information on the intended arrangements for GP commissioning and the NHS Commissioning Board's role in supporting consortia and holding them to account.

This is part of our response to the government's consultation on the White Paper. It sets out our view on the need for regulation, the general scope and nature of that regulation and addresses the changes to the powers and freedoms proposed for NHS trusts.

Find out why we are not convinced that the health and wellbeing boards will be effective in co-ordinating and integrating commissioning of health and social care services in our response to the consultation on local democratic legitimacy in health.

Response from The King's Fund to the consultation Transparency in outcomes: a framework for the NHS.

Drawing on three recent publications, this submission focuses on the key issues identified in the preamble to the Inquiry's terms of reference.

The King's Fund response to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence consultation: Potential new indicators for Quality and Outcomes Framework.

A formal response to the Department of Health's draft guidance on proposals for regulation and guidance in relation to the draft legislation on personal care at home.

This briefing focuses on the Mental Health Act 2007 and its policies in relation to England.

This response welcomes plans for an NHS constitution as a potentially viable way of providing clarity on the purpose of the NHS.

This paper is a response to the Health Select Committee's inquiry, conducted by Professor Mike Richards, into the consequences of additional private drugs for NHS care.

In this briefing, John Appleby and Ruth Thorlby explore the early years of the NHS and look forward to what we might encounter in the next 60 years.

This paper responds to the Department of Health consultation on the framework for the registration of health and adult social care providers.

John Appleby and Ruth Thorlby consider the issues surrounding waiting times in the NHS, from the 1950s up to the present day.