In the past 50 years, spending on the NHS in the United Kingdom has increased from 3.4 per cent to 8.2 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP). If the next 50 years follow the same trajectory, the United Kingdom could be spending nearly one-fifth of its entire GDP on ...
The King’s Fund has come together with the Nuffield Trust and the Health Foundation to publish a briefing on the impact of the Spending Review on health and social care. The briefing aims to ensure that the debate is informed by a clear and objective analysis of the funding position ...
At a time when the NHS is planning for 2016/17 and beyond, this briefing considers some of the key publications and policy announcements that have come out in the wake of the 2015 Spending Review and offers a commentary on what they might mean for the future landscape of the ...
An informed public debate is needed about both the level of future spending on health and social care, and how that spending might be funded. With this in mind, The King's Fund, in collaboration with Ipsos MORI, held two deliberative events with members of the general public.
Unaudited figures indicate that NHS commissioners (clinical commissioning groups and NHS England) and providers in aggregate ended 2015/16 in deficit for the second year running. This briefing draws on data from our quarterly monitoring reports, secondary research and interviews with health care leaders to consider commissioner and provider finances in ...
The commission, chaired by Dame Kate Barker, proposes a new approach that redesigns care around individual needs regardless of diagnosis, with a graduated increase in support as needs rise, particularly towards the end of life. The twelve recommendations set out a vision for a more integrated health and social care ...
This is the interim report from the independent Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England. In it, the commission explains why it believes England needs a single health and social care system, with a ring-fenced, singly commissioned budget, and more closely aligned entitlements. Drawing on accounts ...
The King’s Fund, Nuffield Trust and The Health Foundation are urging the government to address the critical state of social care in its forthcoming Autumn Statement. The briefing calls on the government to recognise the immediate funding pressures facing the sector by bringing forward to next year funding from the ...
Nuffield Trust, the Health Foundation and The King’s Fund are urging the government to address the critical state of health and social care in its forthcoming Autumn Budget. The briefing calls on the government to recognise the immediate funding pressures facing the sector in 2018/19, which will see NHS funding ...