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

Nationally, there has been a long-term focus in mental health policy on moving care out of hospitals and into the community – from deinstitutionalisation to the recent community mental health ...

'Government can only go so far on its own to end the obesity epidemic… we will need to harness scientific innovation, including recent breakthroughs in weight loss medication.' GLP-1 (Glucagon-like ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Our health and care system is in crisis and at risk of becoming financially and operationally unsustainable. The King’s Fund supports the need for transformational shifts in how health and care ...

There is growing national interest in the potential for wider and deeper partnerships between the NHS and life sciences sector. The UK life sciences industry is a significant asset and there is a ...

Drawing on The King’s Fund’s five-year programme of work on health inequalities and tackling the worst health outcomes, which includes insights from stakeholders, partners and people with lived ...

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 ...