Following the announcement that NHS England is to be abolished, Siva Anandaciva considers the implications and why at the ...

Responding to today's announcement, Sarah Woolnough, CEO of The King's Fund, says that the government must be clear why this ...

Following the recent announcement of changes to the top of NHS England, Nicholas Timmins and Professor Sir Chris Ham take a ...

Does a neighbourhood health service mean different things to different people? Chris Naylor argues that there needs to be a common understanding of what the goal is.

In 1991, the German political economist Albert Hirschman published a short book called The rhetoric of reaction. In it, Hirschman categorised what he saw as the foundational argumentative styles of ...

The increasing cost of paying staff has ultimately led to a fall in the number of people receiving publicly funded long-term care, says a new report from The King’s Fund. Social Care 360 analyses ...

Loading unfunded costs on care providers ultimately leads to fewer people receiving social care support. That’s the key lesson in this year’s Social care 360 review, both for the government and the ...

What was the annual change? The number of new requests for support increased from 2.0 million in 2022/23 to 2.1 million in 2023/24. Requests for support from working-age adults and older people both ...

Local authorities spent similar proportion of money on long-term support for working-age adults (£10.4 billion) and older people (£11.0 billion) in 2023/24, compared with 2022/23. However, the pattern ...

Place-based and neighbourhood approaches to care play an essential role in enabling the health and care system to tackle the growing challenges facing it, and the new government has reinvigorated ...