Following the announcement that NHS England is to be abolished, Siva Anandaciva considers the implications and why at the ...

Responding to today's announcement, Sarah Woolnough, CEO of The King's Fund, says that the government must be clear why this significant structural change at this time is necessary, and how it fits ...

Does a neighbourhood health service mean different things to different people? Chris Naylor argues that there needs to be a common understanding of what the goal is.

This is a guest blog. Guest authors bring different perspectives and diverse voices to our blog. They do not always represent the views of The King’s Fund. Well, that’s that then. The end of a near 12 ...

In 1991, the German political economist Albert Hirschman published a short book called The rhetoric of reaction. In it, Hirschman categorised what he saw as the foundational argumentative styles of ...

The increasing cost of paying staff has ultimately led to a fall in the number of people receiving publicly funded long-term care, says a new report from The King’s Fund. Social Care 360 analyses ...

Loading unfunded costs on care providers ultimately leads to fewer people receiving social care support. That’s the key lesson in this year’s Social care 360 review, both for the government and the ...

What was the annual change? The number of new requests for support increased from 2.0 million in 2022/23 to 2.1 million in 2023/24. Requests for support from working-age adults and older people both ...

Local authorities spent similar proportion of money on long-term support for working-age adults (£10.4 billion) and older people (£11.0 billion) in 2023/24, compared with 2022/23. However, the pattern ...

Place-based and neighbourhood approaches to care play an essential role in enabling the health and care system to tackle the growing challenges facing it, and the new government has reinvigorated ...

The vacancy rate is an important indicator of providers’ capacity to deliver social care services. Staffing also affects quality: higher staff-to-bed ratios in care homes correlate with higher Care ...