‘A year on since the general election, the government has now set out its long-term vision for how it will turn things around in the NHS, including by shifting delivery of more care into the community ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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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 ...

The King's Fund was proud to host the Open Wounds exhibition in its building from October 2022 to March 2023. This is an online version of that exhibition. Created and developed by Tottenham Rights, ...

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 ...

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, ...