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 ...

As the Casey Commission investigates the future of adult social care, Simon Bottery explores 12 key questions it will need to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ambulatory care-sensitive conditions (ACSCs) are conditions for which effective management and treatment should limit emergency admission to hospital. Nevertheless, ACSCs currently account for more ...

As part of our Leadership in action series, this guide explores what helps to build collaborative relationships among health and care professionals, patients, service users, carers and communities.