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.

In 2014 The King's Fund was approached by the health department in the Australian state of Victoria to undertake an independent review of the model of the state's devolved governance of health services. This report presents the findings of our review.

This report reviews 20 mergers involving NHS trusts and foundation trusts between 2010 and mid-2015 and asks whether mergers are always the best way forward.

Is enough emphasis and thought devoted to leadership styles, the culture this creates and whether this fully reflects the organisation’s aims and ethos?

We speak to Tim Kelsey, National Director for Patients and Information at NHS England, about the role of technology in improving care.

Featuring the voices of patients, volunteers, clinicians and managers, our new digital report explores future ways of changing health and health care for the better.

In January 2006 the Department of Health published 'Our health, our care, our say: A new direction for community services'. This briefing outlines the main policies.

One of the most controversial proposals in the government's Mental Health Bill is the introduction of supervised community treatment (SCT). This briefing explores some of the surrounding issues and the available evidence on the likely effect of SCT.

This briefing outlines the current system of professional regulation in the UK; describes the criticisms of this system; details the government's proposals for reform; and discusses the potential strengths and weaknesses of the proposed changes.

Our report compares the regulatory frameworks in the Autonomous Community of Catalonia in Spain, Germany, the Netherlands and New Zealand to the regulation of the NHS in England.

What impact have community-based compulsory treatment orders had in the first six months since they were introduced in Scotland, and what lessons can England and Wales learn from this experience?

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.

Anna Dixon welcomes the debate around creating an independent NHS but says that an effective case has still to be made for full arm's-length governance.

The King's Fund Insight article by Niall Dixon, which says that the health service in England is undergoing far-reaching change on a scale not seen before.

This briefing describes the main points contained in the 2006/7 Operating Framework and provides some commentary about what the document implies for the competing strands of NHS reform.

Explores how social enterprises, particularly those with a 'mutual' structure, could add value to the provision of primary and community care and practice-based commissioning, and suggests how this system could be implemented.