Sarah Woolnough, Chief Executive of The King's Fund, comments on the first NHS situation report data of 2026. The service is ...

Siva Anandaciva and Danielle Jefferies look back on the health and care trends, key figures, news stories and policy changes ...

Report from the scoping phase of an evaluation of the CQC’s regulatory model ...

This question changed in 2021. In previous years the question specified social care provided by local authorities. In 2021 the reference to local authorities was removed and instead the question asked ...

People who sleep rough have some of the worst health outcomes in England. We explore how four local areas are delivering effective health and care services to people sleeping rough and what other ...

Why we did this research During the Covid-19 pandemic, there was a huge augmentation and expansion of community champions programmes in England, enabled by the availability of national funding. This ...

Why we did this research There is little information available nationally about place-based partnerships – how they are set up, what they do, what resources they have, and what factors facilitate or ...

Our new report assesses the coalition government's record on the NHS. It comes in two parts, with this first part focusing on the reforms set out in the Health and Social Care Act.

Our research The purpose of our research was to make recommendations to those in national and local leadership roles on how HIV services should develop over the next 5–10 years. We investigated the ...

This explainer looks at provider collaboratives in England, the opportunities they provide and the unresolved questions to consider when thinking about their role in the changing health and care ...

What we did We wanted to understand the development of ICSs through the eyes of people involved in the workforce agenda, exploring the successes and challenges they have encountered in attempting to ...

This report explores public satisfaction with the NHS and social care in 2024. Just 1 in 5 people in 2024 said they were satisfied with the NHS. This is the lowest level of satisfaction recorded since ...