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.

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.

This paper is a response to the New Horizons consultation, which outlines the need for quality improvement in primary mental health care services.

This paper responds to the Health Select Committee's inquiry into the future of social care funding and the case for major reform of the existing system.

Independent sector treatment centres (ISTCs) provide services to NHS patients but are owned and run by organisations outside the NHS. This briefing paper explains why ISTCs were introduced, and how they are funded, staffed and regulated.

This briefing sets out how general practice is organised, contracted and financed; analyses the impact of recent government policy; and looks at future trends.

This paper responds to the NHS Next Stage review, which aims to improve the quality of care provided by the NHS.

Teresa Poole sets out how adult social care is currently funded, outlines some of the main criticisms of the current arrangements and describes the types of changes the government might consider for its reform.

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 explain how setting NHS budgets has always been problematic.

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.

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