Sarah Woolnough, Chief Executive of The King's Fund, responds to government announcements of an 'NHS online' service and a ...

An important role for the health and care system, and wider government, is to help people live longer and healthier lives by reducing the chance of illness in the first place, or preventing the ...

The NHS and social care systems in England are on a journey towards digitalisation. One particular technology that is generating high levels of both excitement and scepticism is artificial ...

Place-based partnerships are non-statutory collaborative arrangements within integrated care systems (ICSs) in England. They bring together NHS, local government and other organisations responsible ...

The bombshell news of the merger/reorganisation/abolition of NHS England has largely overshadowed a potentially equally seismic shift in the set-up of the health system – a complete overhaul of the ...

The British public are deeply unhappy with the National Health Service – just 1 in 5 people (21%) in 2024 said they were satisfied with the way the NHS runs. That’s according to analysis of the latest ...

Greater emphasis on primary and community care is one of the three ‘big shifts’ the Labour government wants to see in the health and care system. In early 2024 The King’s Fund published Making care ...

This project was supported by the Health Foundation. The views expressed in the report are those of the authors and all conclusions are the authors Adapt to thrive in digital health and care Join our ...

January is typically a time for new year resolutions. Health and care are no stranger to this impetus for improvement, entering 2025 in a state of crisis against many metrics but with a clear resolve ...

Greater Manchester (GM) has been the ‘poster child’ for devolution in England, and alongside it, in the health world, the leading light in efforts to improve population health at scale. This report ...

According to the 2021 Census there are approximately 4.7 million unpaid carers in England and approximately 310,00 in Wales – 3.0 million female carers and 2.0 million male carers, a 2.4 percentage ...

As digital technologies have developed, there has been a slow but significant shift in people using digital tools to access health and care services – and in health and care services using digital ...