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.

The King's Fund's written evidence submission, informing the Health Committee's annual accountability hearing with the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

This submission considers the financial pressures the NHS is currently under and will continue to face in the coming years.

The King's Fund's written evidence submission, informing the Health Committee's annual accountability hearing with the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

This consultation response sets out the views of The King's Fund on changes to the way the Care Quality Commission regulates, inspects and monitors care.

The King's Fund welcome the Care Bill as a significant stepping stone to wider reform of care and support and the new duties on local authorities to promote wellbeing.

Our written response to the House of Commons Select Committee's inquiry into the implementation of the Health and Social Care Act 2012.

Our response to the independent review by the Nuffield Trust commissioned by the Secretary of State for Health to consider whether aggregate ratings of provider performance should be used in health and social care.

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.

John Appleby and Ruth Thorlby explain how setting NHS budgets has always been problematic.

Patient choice has been a major theme of the Labour government's public sector modernisation programme. This briefing looks at the development of reforms to give patients a choice of provider for their planned hospital care.

This briefing explores some of the questions and issues relating to practice-based commissioning in England, examines the pace of implementation and offers some analysis of the impact – current and future – on NHS services.

This briefing analyses the latest figures and data extracted from NHS trust boards, to assess the scale of the challenges to the financial security of the NHS in the future.