The data shows that the NHS estates maintenance backlog is eye-wateringly large. The really worrying thing, though, is that ...

Commenting on the latest Estates Returns Information Collection data for 2023/24, Charlotte Wickens, Policy Adviser at The King’s Fund, said: ‘Many patients and staff alike will be familiar with the ...

At The King’s Fund, we partner with you to tackle the complex challenges facing your organisation. Our experienced OD consultancy team will work through a tailored organisational development (OD) ...

Our health and care system is in crisis and at risk of becoming financially and operationally unsustainable. The King’s Fund ...

In July 2023, the Home Office, Department of Health and Social Care, National Police Chiefs’ Council, Association of Police and Crime Commissioners and NHS England announced an agreement to work to ...

The change in government has brought renewed political energy to the challenges in health and care, and there’s been no shortage of ‘hot takes’ on the issues or repairs required to mend what is, in ...

On 29 November, Kim Leadbeater MP’s Bill to legalise assisted dying for some terminally ill people passed its second reading in the House of Commons. This was a historic moment, the first time MPs ...

Responding to the latest monthly NHS performance data and latest NHS weekly winter sit reps, Danielle Jefferies, Senior Analyst at The King’s Fund, said: ‘The situation in the NHS is fraught as it ...

There are reports that the government is willing to think differently about NHS waiting time targets and their relative priority. But if it is serious about driving through reforms to the health care ...

In the lecture she gave on receiving the Nobel Prize in 2009, Elinor Ostrom argued that research over several decades showed that ‘a core goal of public policy should be to facilitate the development ...