Sarah Woolnough, Chief Executive of The King's Fund comments on specific topics within the government’s 10 Year Plan for ...

Sarah Woolnough, Chief Executive of The King's Fund comments on the government's forthcoming 10-year plan for health.

Integrated care systems (ICSs) have existed in one form or another since 2016 and became legal entities in 2022. They were set up to form partnerships that bring together NHS organisations, the VCSE ...

Overview In March 2024, the Royal College of Physicians (the College) held an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) of fellows, arranged to debate issues relating to physician associates. Several ...

The government’s 10 Year Plan for Health sets out how it intends to transform the NHS and create a health service ‘fit for the future’. The plan centres on three ‘shifts’ or changes the government ...

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What are provider collaboratives? Provider collaboratives are partnerships that bring together two or more NHS trusts (public providers of NHS services including hospitals and mental health services) ...

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 ...

NHS spending is based on NHS England total departmental expenditure limit for 2023/24 and 2023/24 NHS trust accounts. Sources: HM Treasury (2025) and NHS England (2024). NHS salary data is based on ...

ABC of nurses’ and midwives’ core work needs To ensure wellbeing and motivation at work, and to minimise workplace stress, research evidence suggests that people have three core needs: autonomy – the ...

Chloe Wong, NHS management trainee, explains why listening to the voices of children and young people is crucial for ...

Emergency admissions to hospital are costly to the NHS and also cause disruption to planned health care. Considerable efforts have been made within the health service to reduce emergency admissions, ...