Real-terms increase in core local government spending power of around 3.2%, including £600 million of new grant funding to support social care (for both adults and children’s services) and a £86 ...

A new royal commission on social care will need to make a better fist of reforming the mean test than its predecessor, says ...

Greater Manchester (GM) has been the ‘poster child’ for devolution in England, and alongside it, in the health world, the leading light in efforts to improve population health at scale. This report ...

What effect does the language of a ‘broken NHS’ have on its staff? Sam Scott and Anoushka Murray consider this.

Commenting on the Autumn Budget, Siva Anandaciva, Chief Analyst at The King’s Fund, said: ‘This Budget has been delivered among a backdrop of dire NHS performance and extremely tight public finances.

Innovation in the NHS is often siloed, unsupported and hindered, with knowledge fragmented across different levels of the system. The introduction of the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP) aims to ...

Commenting on an announcement from The Treasury that there will be new funding to kickstart delivery of two million extra NHS appointments, Siva Anandaciva, Chief Analyst at The King’s Fund, said: ...

The government has just launched Change NHS, ‘the biggest ever conversation about the future of the NHS’. Open to the public, staff and wider health and care organisations it is focused both on ...

We’ve recently seen a flurry of ministerial suggestions for how the NHS could help ‘get sick Brits back to health and back to work’. This includes Wes Streeting suggesting unemployed people could get ...