The Health Foundation’s programme of work on health policy and economic analysis complements our portfolio of grants to improve front-line care, research on the evidence for improvement, and fellowships to build skills to improve services.
We want to ensure that public policy development is informed by impartial analysis and evidence, and use what we know works on the ground to inform effective policymaking and vice versa.
The publication of the Department of Health (DH) annual accounts has been well reported: they showed an overspend on the allocated health budget for the year 2015/16, and a sharp deterioration of f...
Demand pressures on the NHS rise every year. To cope with these pressures and provide the same quality of service, we need to train more clinical professionals and nurses in Britain year after year...
Aneurin Bevan’s famous dropped bedpan continues to echo through the corridors of Whitehall, defying various attempts to improve the soundproofing. But the reverse is also true. The reverberation...
It’s been over a month since the sobering news that the NHS provider deficit had reached £2.45bn at the end of the 2015/16 with 65% of all providers in the red. Having recently joined the Health...
Staffing matters; funding counts examines the profile and features of the NHS workforce in Englan...
Every health system should have a strategic and coordinated approach for delivering high quality ...
In this briefing we explore what the UK leaving the EU might mean for funding of the NHS in Engla...
The NHS is a service that all of us use, most of us pay into, and that provides everything from a GP check-up for a sore knee to the most advanced stem cell therapy – all of which has to be paid fo...
Last month I got up unpleasantly early on a Sunday morning, met up with a small group of fellow cyclists and went for a long(ish) ride around some very scenic – and extraordinarily cold – country l...
The firebreak is not enough and the plan is unravelling at frightening speed. All parts of the NHS must work together if the cataclysmic financial storm is to be survived...
New analysis from The King’s Fund and the Health Foundation looks at how this year’s NHS funding increase compares with previous years. Adam Roberts and John Appleby find that this year’s increase ...
There are a lot of problems in the NHS right now. And there are a lot of articles and blogs listing them one by one in all their glory. I’ve even written some of them. But this isn’t one of those b...
How does a political party stand out from the crowd in relation to the NHS in the lead up to a UK general election? Typically, they attack the prevailing government’s strategy and track record. Com...
Meteorologists define winter as December to February: the three calendar months when the weather is usually coldest. Ask an astronomer, however, and they’ll say it’s from the winter solstice to the...
Place-based and integrated care is fashionable in health and social care policy. There are a plethora of initiatives aiming to make them happen. Examples include the better care fund, Integrated ca...
Clare Allcock discusses the breadth of a practice manager’s responsibility and how lonely and unsupported a role it can be, and highlights three priority areas requiring action.
‘Devolution’ – the transfer of power from a higher to a lower level of government – is high on th...
Health care is a people business. The 1.4 million people who work in the English NHS are its grea...
There is not enough money in health care – at least to do what we are doing. From Whitehall to hospital ward this is an increasingly recognised fact. We talk about efficiency savings – but as the P...
This report examines the financial performance of the NHS in England. The main focus is on the fi...
Every three years, the US-based Commonwealth Fund coordinates a survey of general practitioners (...
This analysis is an update to the April 2015 Health Foundation report, Hospital finances and prod...
This joint briefing from the Health Foundation, The King's Fund and the Nuffield Trust provides a...
The NHS and publicly funded adult social care will account for £157bn of public spending across t...
The use of national targets in the English NHS divides opinion. However, the NHS looks set to ret...
The Health Foundation has undertaken an independent review of indicators of the quality of care p...
Need to nurture: outcomes-based commissioning in the NHS examines what outcomes-based commissioni...
This document contains the submission from the Health Foundation to the 2015 Comprehensive Spendi...
Download the Health Foundation’s response to NHS Provider’s Right place, right time commission on...
The Health Foundation and The King’s Fund both support the concept of a Transformation Fund for t...
