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 ...

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 put people at the heart of cancer care?

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 ...

The British public are deeply unhappy with the National Health Service – just 1 in 5 people (21%) in 2024 said they were satisfied with the way the NHS runs. That’s according to analysis of the latest ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Drawing on The King’s Fund’s five-year programme of work on health inequalities and tackling the worst health outcomes, which includes insights from stakeholders, partners and people with lived ...

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 ...