Following the recent announcement of changes to the top of NHS England, Nicholas Timmins and Professor Sir Chris Ham take a ...

The Strategic Clinical Leaders programme is a leadership course aimed at senior leaders working in all sectors of the health and care system, from public health and social care to dentistry and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sarah Woolnough, Chief Executive, responds to the announcement that Amanda Pritchard will step down as Chief Executive of NHS ...

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 ...

If to govern is to choose, then the government needs to clearly define and prioritise its goals in order to achieve ...

Danielle is an analyst in the policy team and works with data from across the health and social care landscape. She has a particular interest in health inequalities. Before joining the Fund, Danielle ...

Professor Sir Chris Ham no longer works for the Fund. Chris Ham was Chief Executive at the Fund from 2010 until 2018. He rejoined the Fund in 2010, having previously worked here between 1986 and 1992.

The King's Fund is an independent charitable organisation working to improve health and care in England.

The QMR features survey results from NHS trust finance directors and CCG finance leads, and interactive charts on selected NHS performance data. The quarterly monitoring report was produced to provide ...