London had the highest gains in life expectancy. But this changed after the pandemic. What explains London’s atypical trends ...

The King's Fund said this sends a very clear signal that the government wants to make meaningful reform to adult social care ...

The Ockenden and Amos reports highlight how listening, psychological safety and compassionate leadership are essential to improving maternity services and patient safety.

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The health needs of the population are changing, and many people need more co-ordinated care across primary, community, social and hospital services. More co-ordinated care requires organisations and ...

The NHS Modernisation Bill (known formally as the Health Bill), which was introduced to parliament in May 2026, includes measures to enable the establishment of a single patient record (SPR) to ...

The safety of maternity services is of paramount importance. Maternity teams face many challenges in delivering safe care to mothers, babies and families. The King’s Fund launched an independent ...

Responding to the prime minister’s comments that the NHS ‘will collapse’ without adult social care reform, Sarah Woolnough, Chief Executive at The King’s Fund, said: ‘For decades social care reform ...

Responding to the Nursing and Midwifery Council's (NMC) findings that over a third of the nursing and midwifery workforce is Black, Asian and ethnic minority for the first time, Sarah Woolnough, Chief ...

Clinical leadership in the NHS does not always happen by design. It often emerges by accident and is increasingly likely to be something people fall into doing and are not prepared or trained for. We ...

This paper describes a co-ordinated service delivery model – the ‘house of care’ – that aims to deliver proactive, holistic and patient-centred care for people with long-term conditions. It ...