Publications

Community pharmacy is a critical part of primary care in England, but its role and relationship to the wider NHS is often poorly understood. This explainer looks at the community pharmacy sector in England, explaining how pharmacies are contracted and funded, the types of services they provide and future trends in the sector.

A key part of the NHS long-term plan, primary care networks (PCNs) will bring general practices together to work at scale. But what are they? How are they funded and held accountable? And what difference will they make? Beccy Baird explains the latest form of GP collaboration.

It has become received wisdom that the NHS struggles to adopt digital innovation, but during the Covid-19 pandemic, many NHS providers have moved services online at astonishing pace. Ben Collins looks at four digital innovations in health services from the UK and the Nordic countries.

The King’s Fund, Health Foundation and Nuffield Trust have submitted a joint letter to the Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee warning that it will take many months before NHS and social care organisations are able to fully restart services following the Covid-19 outbreak.

This article was first published on the LGC website. The lack of news from the government about the public health grant contrasts with the long term certainly it has given the NHS, writes Sally Warren.

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

In recent years, the digital agenda in health care has been the subject of an array of promises and plans. Following on from the Wachter review of health technology, our new briefing assesses the progress made and what needs to happen next.

Our guide explores practical ways to develop collaborative relationships among health and care professionals, patients, carers and community partners.

Ahead of our Digital Health and Care Congress in July, we speak to Dame Fiona Caldicott about data-sharing and security in health and care.

Mark Doughty discusses progress made by The King's Fund's Leading collaboratively with patients and communities programme.

Our report looks at the data from inpatient surveys over a nine-year period and discusses what the data tells us about the national picture of care in the NHS and what it reveals about trends for individual trusts over time.

The Care Quality Commission's State of Care report has both reassuring and disturbing messages: reassuring in that the majority of services are good, but disturbing in that there is significant variation in quality and particularly safety.

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

Hugh Alderwick and Chris Naylor discuss provider-led approaches to integration.

This report looks at lessons from case studies where acute hospitals are working collaboratively with local partners to build integrated models of care.