We welcome the protection of NHS funding but highlight the risk rising demand, fragile social care, industrial action and ...

Sarah Woolnough, Chief Executive of The King's Fund, responds to a government announcement that milk-based and ...

The ‘sick man of Europe’, an epithet sometimes applied to the UK in the economic context, is used increasingly to describe ...

Rising rates of obesity are putting pressure on the NHS and worsening health inequalities. In this submission, we recommend a more joined-up approach to prevention, including better access to healthy ...

Responding to the Public Accounts Committee’s report which found that the NHS is missing its recovery targets despite billions in extra funding and that the government's planned NHS reforms are ...

Nearly two-thirds of adults are overweight or obese. Child obesity is growing at an unprecedented rate. Urgent action is ...

It has become received wisdom that the NHS struggles to adopt digital innovation, with many government reports and research papers highlighting barriers to the spread of technology. Yet during the ...

Multi-year funding increases and a series of reforms resulted in major improvements in NHS performance between 2000 and 2010, but performance has declined since 2010 as a result of much lower funding ...

Greater Manchester (GM) has been the ‘poster child’ for devolution in England, and alongside it, in the health world, the leading light in efforts to improve population health at scale. This report ...

Community champions are typically members of the community who volunteer to promote health and wellbeing or improve conditions in their local community. The community champion approach is one of many ...

In recent years, NHS spending has been protected while other budgets such as welfare, local government and the police have been subject to significant cuts. Despite this, health services are facing ...

Use of the Mental Health Act has increased. Many more people are getting to a state of crisis where detention is necessary rather than being able to receive support earlier. There are an increasing ...