Publications

Download The King's Fund submission to the VCSE Review’s discussion paper on challenges and solutions to better investment in and partnership with the VCSE Review.

Our response to this Inquiry concludes that the future of general practice rests on a combination of investment and reform.

The King's Fund's submission to the 2015 Spending Review argues that if the government is serious in its commitment to health and social care, it must ensure that adequate funds are available both in this parliament and longer term.

The King's Fund's written briefing on health and social care funding in advance of the Budget, on 8 July 2015.

We set out our thoughts on the Communities and Local Government Committee inquiry on the role of local authorities in health issues.

This document sets out our thoughts on the Department of Health’s consultation on the draft mandate for the National Health Service Commissioning Board.

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 briefing focuses on the implications of the Health and Social Care Bill for service reconfigurations and for the failure regime for providers that are financially unsustainable.

Our data briefing looks at the trends emerging in emergency admissions and hospital bed use in the NHS. What do the numbers tell us?

In this briefing for the Second Reading in the House of Lords we set out our views on suggested reforms from the Health and Social Care Bill, including regulation, choice of provider and clinical commissioning.

We welcomed the Health Select Committee's Inquiry into Public Expenditure in September 2011.

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.

Despite recent amendments to the Bill, following the recommendations from the NHS Future Forum, we are still concerned that the scale of the structural changes set out in the Bill. In this briefing we set out our concerns.

This briefing represents our full response to the changes made to the Health and Social Care Bill, including our concern that the scale of the reforms and the challenges associated with implementing them present risks that could affect NHS performance during this critical phase.

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

This submission focuses on Part three of the Health and Social Care Bill, which sets out the legislative framework for the economic regulation of health and social care.

Our review of the operation of any willing provider for the provision of routine elective care: interim assessment.

Our response to the House of Commons Health Committee follow-up inquiry into commissioning.