Based on interviews with eight of the 'first wave' integrated care systems, this report seeks to understand how they are developing and to identify lessons for local systems and national policy-makers.
The NHS is under financial pressure with growing demand for services. As the NHS reaches its 70th birthday, The King’s Fund has been exploring how the public views its relationship with the NHS. In March 2018, in partnership with Ipsos MORI, we carried out three ‘deliberative workshops’ to explore this ...
The CQC introduced a new approach to inspecting and rating health and social care providers in 2013. Our report with the Alliance Manchester's Business School is the first major evaluation of this approach.
This working paper is produced as part of the Social Care Funding Options project, a joint project between the Health Foundation and The King’s Fund. and This paper considers the following approaches to funding social care for older people in England: improving the current system; the Conservative Party’s proposals at the time of the 2017 general election (a revised means test and a cap on care costs); a single budget for health and social care; free ...