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.

We find that the draft strategy is a good start, but we believe as it is finalised its commitments need to be more tightly focused on inequality reduction than they currently are.

Ahead of debates on the address on Wednesday 28 June in the House of Commons and Thursday 29 June in the House of Lords, The King's Fund has produced this written briefing on the key issues for health and social care in the new parliament.

This debate provided an important opportunity to discuss the pressures facing social care following the Autumn Statement.

The King's Fund welcomed this debate which provided an important opportunity to discuss the pressures facing social care.

Written evidence submitted by The King's Fund and the Nuffield Trust to the Communities and Local Government Committee inquiry into adult social care.

The King's Fund's response to the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) consultation on self-sufficient local government.

Evidence submission from The King's Fund to the House of Lords Select Committee on the long-term sustainability of the NHS.

Our submission to the House of Commons Health Committee inquiry gives our views on the impact of the Health and Social Care Act reforms on public health since 2013.

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.

While we welcome the Care Bill as an important stepping stone to wider reform of care and support, it will not deliver the change needed to meet future health and care needs.

Our written submission to the House of Commons Health Select Committee inquiry into emergency services and emergency 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.

This briefing note was sent to the Committee ahead of an oral evidence session on 9 January 2013, where Richard Humphries gave evidence on behalf of the Fund.

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 questions in the consultation on smoke-free premises and vehicles, the exemption of the smoking ban in treatment facilities, and ensuring protection from secondhand smoke.