The Autumn Budget is a significant moment for this government. To govern is to choose, and ministers have some tough choices' ...

Prioritising ‘patients over paperwork’ might sound sensible, but don’t ignore the potential of good admin to improve patient ...

The new government has made a commitment to halving gaps in health life expectancy and delivering a 10-year plan for health.

There has been a collective failure to deliver reform of adult social care in England for at least two decades. It has left a system struggling with a series of problems: an overly-stringent means ...

The government has a new plan to bring down waiting lists and get people back to work. Ruth Robertson asks will it work, and ...

Ruth works in the policy team where she leads research projects on a wide range of NHS policy issues. Recently, these have included the development of clinical commissioning groups, the quest to get ...

Drawing on our five-year programme of work on health inequalities, we outline what we think the anticipated 10-year health plan should focus on.

Luca is a researcher in the policy team. His areas of interest include service integration and health inequalities. Before joining The King’s Fund, Luca worked for New Local, a local government think ...

Earlier this year, The King’s Fund called for a complete shift in focus for the health and care system – a shift towards care ...