Publications

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.

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.

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.

Politicians must look for evidence-based solutions and avoid the NHS becoming a political football, says Chris Ham.

This year, urgent activity in English NHS hospitals has reportedly hit a record high. These figures routinely underestimate the real number of people in beds whose needs no longer require the full facilities of the general hospital.

How can patients be encouraged to participate in their own care? And just what does it mean to be an empowered patient?

Written halfway through the 2010–2015 parliament, this review considers how the NHS is performing under the coalition government, following on from The King’s Fund’s major review of NHS performance from 1997 to 2010.

The current system, dominated by the general hospital, is outmoded. But are politicians brave enough to dismantle some of those shells?

This paper explores how the current health and social care delivery system has failed to keep pace with the population's needs and expectations.

This document sets out our thoughts on the Department of Health’s consultation: Liberating the NHS: No decision about me, without me.

This paper explores factors that might be driving the significant variation in use of hospital beds by patients over 65 admitted as an emergency.

With the Francis Inquiry report due in the autumn, we set out our views on how the system of quality assurance needs to evolve and how it should operate.

Our paper calls for doctors to aspire to the same standards of excellence in diagnosing patients' preferences for their care as they do to diagnosing disease.