Publications

This joint briefing from The King's Fund, Nuffield Trust and the Health Foundation makes the economic, social and political case for further investment in social care and aims to move the argument on from the cost of social care to its value.

The Comprehensive Spending Review details the government’s plans for public spending over the coming years. It will clarify which areas of the health and care budget have not yet been addressed by recent funding announcements around the NHS and for social care reform. Here, we set out the challenges and consider steps the government could take to address them.

Read our submission to the open consultation on the government’s proposals for reform of the Mental Health Act.

The Covid-19 pandemic prompted rapid uptake of existing digital technologies to deliver patient care differently in general practice. This report looks at how services changed and the digital tools and services that were used to facilitate that change

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

Nuffield Trust, the Health Foundation and The King’s Fund are urging the government to address the critical state of health and social care in its forthcoming Autumn Budget. 

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.

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 our Digital Health and Care Congress in July, we speak to Helen Arthur about how the vanguards are applying technology and what other areas can learn from them.

All political parties agree that social care funding needs reform, but none of the proposed solutions deal fully with the problem, says Richard Humphries.

Get diagnosed with cancer or stroke and you will be looked after by the NHS, but suffer from dementia and you are on your own, says Chris Ham.