What’s Likely To Make The Headlines In Health And Care This Year? Sarah Woolnough Explores What To Look Out For In 2026 And ...

Sarah Woolnough, Chief Executive of The King's Fund, comments on the first NHS situation report data of 2026. The service is ...

Siva Anandaciva and Danielle Jefferies look back on the health and care trends, key figures, news stories and policy changes ...

People who sleep rough have some of the worst health outcomes in England. We explore how four local areas are delivering effective health and care services to people sleeping rough and what other ...

This question changed in 2021. In previous years the question specified social care provided by local authorities. In 2021 the reference to local authorities was removed and instead the question asked ...

Our new report assesses the coalition government's record on the NHS. It comes in two parts, with this first part focusing on the reforms set out in the Health and Social Care Act.

In the run up to the general election, The King’s Fund will explore what national government can do to improve health and care in England, consider political parties’ policy proposals, and make sense ...

We need to move away from a system just focused on diagnosing and treating illness towards one that is based on promoting wellbeing and preventing ill health. Our report sets out a new vision for ...

Why we did this research During the Covid-19 pandemic, there was a huge augmentation and expansion of community champions programmes in England, enabled by the availability of national funding. This ...

Demographic changes, technological advances and the changing pattern of disease are pushing up the numbers of patients with complex needs who require treatment in the community. But outside hospital, ...

Source: The King’s Fund and Nuffield Trust analysis of NatCen’s BSA survey data 2022 sample size = 3,362. This question was not asked in 1985, 1988 and 1992; ‘don’t know’ and ‘refusal’ responses are ...

Why we did this research There is little information available nationally about place-based partnerships – how they are set up, what they do, what resources they have, and what factors facilitate or ...