Publications

This report looks at experiences so far in the areas of England working on delivering enhanced health in care homes.

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.

Mandip Randhawa writes about the challenges of transforming mental health services for children and young people.

We examine the big issues and recent NHS performance on waiting times.

Services are at full stretch and struggling to maintain standards, says Chris Ham.

We talk to Matthew Lanham, Chief Executive of the Neuromuscular Centre – a charity that won a GSK IMPACT Award in recognition of its work to improve people's health.

This report explores the work of small to medium-sized health and wellbeing charities that have won GSK IMPACT Awards, identifying their characteristics and capabilities and looking at the common factors contributing to organisational effectiveness.

In July NHS England published its first 'progress dashboard' for the 44 new sustainability and transformation partnerships, but these new ratings are narrowly focused and centrally driven, say Hugh Alderwick and Veena Raleigh.

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.

The outcome of the general election will mean more of the same for the NHS and social care in the short term, and huge uncertainty on two fronts in the medium term, says Chris Ham.

Ahead of the general election, we explore whether the government met its pledge on seven-day services.

Ahead of the general election, we look at how the NHS compares with international health systems.

Ahead of the general election, we consider whether general practice is in crisis.