With wider national priorities and economic storms facing the country, it's understandable that little was said on the NHS ...

If you look through the detailed Autumn Budget 2026 documents and add them all up, there is a surprisingly large number of small announcements for the health and care system. Step back from the detail ...

The King’s Fund responds to new analysis on England’s social care workforce, as international recruitment falls and demand for care grows.

Dr Havi Carel is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Bristol and also teaches at Bristol Medical School. She is currently a British Academy Fellow, writing on a monograph for Oxford ...

Al Mulley's work with us focused on how we can transform the delivery of health services through innovations that produce better value for patients, looking at evidence from the UK and the US. Al will ...

A framework for understanding the impact of regulation We have developed a new framework that outlines eight ways in which regulation can affect provider performance. This framework will help ...

Responding to the announcement that government will row back on plans to make international social care workers wait 15 years to qualify for settled status, Simon Bottery, Senior Fellow at The King’s ...

From integrated care to lived experience, across the whole life-cycle and in every sector, the health and care system is evolving rapidly. The demands on clinical leaders have never been greater. We ...

The adult social care workforce is struggling with high vacancies and turnover, but how many people work in this sector in England, and what are their roles? Social care is provided and organised by ...

Until now, most efforts to promote integrated care have focused on bridging the gaps between health and social care or between primary and secondary care. But the NHS five year forward view has ...

How is the NHS funded? The vast majority of public NHS funding comes from general taxation and National Insurance contributions. A small proportion of funding (less than 1% of the total Department of ...