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.

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.

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.

Successful talent management is an ethos and is core to developing a safe, compassionate culture. Sarah Massie and Katy Steward outline four key components of a successful strategy for developing future leaders

This paper encourages organisations to adopt a holistic talent management and succession planning strategy and guides NHS boards and leaders through the steps needed for this.

Discussions about the NHS workforce have been prominent in the current election campaign and arose during the recent health debate.

This report look at past experience with NHS workforce planning and the challenges facing workforce planning in the future, in the light of changing health care needs and the need to deliver the future care models outlines in the NHS five year forward view. The report focuses on three areas key to providing integrated care: mental health, primary care and community nursing.

This paper encourages NHS boards and other leaders to focus on staff engagement and suggests six building blocks for ensuring a highly engaged workforce.

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.

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.

Drawing on evidence from five acute NHS trusts, this paper assesses the impact of the new consultant contract in England and asks whether reforms will translate into benefits for patients.

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.

As we reach the end of the financial year, Niall Dickson warns there could be even more stories of deficits, wards being closed and staff being cut.

Describes the experiences of nine nurse leads as they develop nurse-led personal medical services pilots.