The Health Bill – introduced in the King’s Speech as the NHS Modernisation Bill – has completed its initial Commons stages ...

The King’s Fund said Skills for Care’s report highlights major workforce pressures in adult social care, warning that an ageing population, reduced overseas recruitment and poor retention require ...

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With health inequalities widening, healthy life expectancy falling, and health spending and public finances on a concerning trajectory, there is increasing consensus that the current health and care ...

Commenting on the latest Estates Returns Information Collection data for 2025/26, Siva Anandaciva, Director of Policy, Events and Partnerships at The King’s Fund, said: ‘A maintenance backlog of £17.3 ...

Disabled people's voices need to be valued and prioritised in the planning and delivery of health and care services. This long read sets out the findings of research carried out by The King's Fund and ...

'Big bets' are being placed on life sciences and new technologies to improve health, drive economic growth and transform the NHS over the next decade. These include using AI to improve productivity ...

The Enhancing the Healing Environment (EHE) programme has encouraged and enabled nurse-led teams to work in partnership with patients to improve the environment in which they deliver care. The EHE ...

Toby has left The King's Fund. Toby undertook research and policy analysis at The King’s Fund, focused on health inequalities and poverty. He contributed to The King’s Fund’s work on integrated care ...

Integrating health and social care has been an objective of national policy for more than three decades but has started to gather pace with the introduction the Health and Care Bill, which is expected ...