The King's Fund's vision for population health is to reduce inequalities and achieve health outcomes on a par with the best in the world. We have developed a framework for population health based on four pillars: the wider determinants of health; our health behaviours and lifestyles; the places and communities ...
This report looks at the reality of caring for acutely ill medical patients at the NHS front line and asks how care in hospitals can be improved. It comprises a series of essays by frontline clinicians, managers, quality improvement champions and patients, and provides vivid and frank detail about how ...
This report finds that the market for home care providers is extremely fragile, with squeezed margins and low fees forcing providers to leave. In 2017 providers handed back home care contracts in more than one in three local authorities, and some of the largest providers have withdrawn from the publicly ...
This independent report was commissioned by NHS England as part of a package of support provided to primary and acute care system (PACS) vanguard sites by The King’s Fund. The PACS model is an attempt to bring about closer working between GPs, hospitals, community health professionals, social care and others.
This briefing has been prepared ahead of the Queen's Speech debates and it outlines the key issues for health and social care in the new parliament. It emphasises the need for long-term sustainable options for social care and for greater funding for the NHS to address spending pressures and increased ...
This consultation response includes the following overarching observations. First, it is vital that reform addresses the significant overall underfunding of adult social care and the high levels of unmet need. Second, the challenge is not simply about responding to additional numbers of older people. It is also about addressing the ...
This paper is a response by The King's Fund to the NHS Litigation Authority's Pilot Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts Maternity Clinical Risk Management Standards.
World Class Commissioning is a policy that seeks to bring a "step change" in the capacity and capability of primary care trusts to act as effective commissioners. However, the enduring weakness of commissioning is unlikely to be addressed by WCC alone. It is not just a matter of aligning incentives; ...
The research on which this paper is based was commissioned from The King’s Fund by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) to inform its work to develop an anti-poverty strategy for the United Kingdom. The overarching question addressed is, how can the NHS make a better contribution to tackling poverty? We ...
This paper was commissioned by The King’s Fund to inform its review of leadership in the NHS. and In response to the commitment to clinical leadership, The King’s Fund instigated a project to determine the impact leadership programmes have on individuals and the system. Junior doctors who had completed or were currently on leadership programmes were interviewed in order to determine their experiences and aspirations for the future.