A recent US study showed one simple intervention resulted in 27% fewer visits to emergency services. Could it work in the UK ...

We welcome the protection of NHS funding but highlight the risk rising demand, fragile social care, industrial action and ...

Sarah Woolnough, Chief Executive of The King's Fund, responds to a government announcement that milk-based and ...

Nearly two-thirds of adults are overweight or obese. Child obesity is growing at an unprecedented rate. Urgent action is ...

As the Casey Commission investigates the future of adult social care, Simon Bottery explores 12 key questions it will need to ...

A national framework for action on improvement and leadership development in NHS-funded services was published by NHS Improvement in December 2016, sponsored by key national organisations with NHS ...

The bombshell news of the merger/reorganisation/abolition of NHS England has largely overshadowed a potentially equally seismic shift in the set-up of the health system – a complete overhaul of the ...

Greater emphasis on primary and community care is one of the three ‘big shifts’ the Labour government wants to see in the health and care system. In early 2024 The King’s Fund published Making care ...

Following the announcement that NHS England is to be abolished, health care leadership must go beyond the usual structural changes and tinkering to support the transformation of health and care in ...

Our health and care system is in crisis and at risk of becoming financially and operationally unsustainable. The King’s Fund supports the need for transformational shifts in how health and care ...

Greater Manchester (GM) has been the ‘poster child’ for devolution in England, and alongside it, in the health world, the leading light in efforts to improve population health at scale. This report ...

Integrated care systems (ICSs) were created to increase collaboration in the health and social care sector and to enable the NHS, local authorities and other partners to take collective responsibility ...