New research from The King's Fund explores why direct payment uptake varies so widely across England and what local authorities can do to improve it. We found no shortage of effort or innovation. But ...

The King’s Fund said a TERN study linking A&E overcrowding to increased mortality highlights urgent system pressures. Danielle Jefferies called for stronger action on community care, social care ...

The next generation of NHS hospitals will be far more than simply new buildings. They will influence how patients experience care, how staff work, how services connect with communities and how the NHS ...

Professor David Oliver is a visiting fellow at The King's Fund, alongside his clinical job as an NHS consultant in geriatrics and acute general medicine at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust. A ...

Reviews of maternity services have repeatedly exposed poor-quality care and unacceptable failures during pregnancy and childbirth. Improving maternity services and ensuring that timely, high quality, ...

It is time to think differently about health and social care. Although good progress has been made in improving NHS performance in the past decade, the health and social care system faces ...

Our research We looked at national and international literature and spoke to primary care leaders in the UK and internationally. We drew up a long list of different delivery models of general practice ...

This paper argues that the NHS in England cannot meet the health care needs of the population without a sustained and comprehensive commitment to quality improvement as its principal strategy. Despite ...

Our experts dissect the NHS planning guidance for 2026/7 to 2028/29.

What we did We recruited six areas to take part in our research. Each had different levels of delayed discharges and different characteristics, such as how many local authorities the hospital worked ...

This report considers the potential of place-based partnerships to improve population health and support truly integrated care, and highlights principles to guide their development and the support ...