We look at the data available on children's health in England - from child mortality to diet and exercise, teenage pregnancy and smoking, we we look at what this means for children's health.

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

Rising rates of obesity are putting pressure on the NHS and worsening health inequalities. In this submission, we recommend a more joined-up approach to prevention, including better access to healthy ...

Responding to the Public Accounts Committee’s report which found that the NHS is missing its recovery targets despite billions in extra funding and that the government's planned NHS reforms are ...

The ‘sick man of Europe’, an epithet sometimes applied to the UK in the economic context, is used increasingly to describe ...

The upcoming cancer plan is a chance to turn ambition into real progress. Will it improve outcomes, reduce inequalities and ...

Basic infrastructure challenges are holding back the potential for AI to improve health and care services. These challenges erode staff enthusiasm for AI and contribute to a demoralised workforce.

A year can be a long time in politics. Over the past twelve months, the government has made some big calls on health and care funding. Some decisions tightened the purse strings – for example, ...

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 ...

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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 ...