Good regulation drives better services and ultimately helps people live healthier lives. But what does good regulation look ...

The NHS in England spends at least £300 million each year (probably significantly more) on medicines that end up being thrown ...

Delivering the 10 Year Health Plan won’t be easy. Here’s why workforce planning, accountability and investment in people ...

Rates of vaccination are declining in the UK. Against that backdrop, we look at how Gloucestershire ICB has achieved some of ...

The new child poverty strategy promises the biggest fall in child poverty in decades. Will it also deliver better health for ...

The government wants Gen Alpha to be the healthiest generation of children ever, but what about Gen Z? Danielle Jefferies ...

The King's Fund is an independent charity working to improve people's health. Our vision is a world where everyone can live a healthy life.

Huge social, demographic and technological changes have taken place since the NHS and social care systems were established in 1948. People are living longer, often with multiple long-term conditions, ...

It is well known that the NHS is suffering from staff shortages, with 121,000 full-time equivalent (FTE) vacancies and only 26% of the workforce stating there are enough staff at their organisation.

One of the main drivers behind the creation of the NHS was to protect the poorest in society from being bankrupted by the need to pay for care. But the NHS can do more to mitigate, prevent and reduce ...

The workforce crisis engulfing the health and care system is well documented. In the NHS, increases in staff numbers are not keeping pace with demand for staff and services. In 2021/22, for the first ...

There’s general agreement across health and care systems that the current approach to delivering health and care is unsustainable and that there needs to be a fundamental shift from treating illness ...