Sarah Woolnough, Chief Executive of The King's Fund, responds to Sir James Mackey's keynote speech made at The King's Fund ...

Professor Judith Smith, Suzie Bailey and Professor Sir Chris Ham explore why strong, well-trained NHS management is essential ...

The government has put a 'neighbourhood health service' at the heart of its vision for the NHS – but what does that actually ...

Improving NHS admin isn’t easy – but some solutions are surprisingly simple. Julia Cream looks at two real life examples of ...

A year after the Prime Minister spoke these words on our stage at our 2024 Annual Conference, health and care face some of their toughest tests yet. Too many people are still struggling to access the ...

We know the NHS is facing workforce challenges – but who works in the NHS, what are their roles, and how have numbers changed over time? The NHS workforce is growing, but demand for care is also ...

Research demonstrates that not enough progress has been made to address discrimination against NHS staff from ethnic minority backgrounds. The King’s Fund produced a report on the scale of the issue ...

The Francis Report highlights the need for organisations to create and maintain the right culture to deliver high-quality care that is responsive to patients' needs and preferences. But what is the ...

A national framework for action on improvement and leadership development in NHS-funded services was published by NHS Improvement in December 2016, sponsored by key national organisations with NHS ...

This report highlights that lack of access to community services is driving some people to seek care in A&E, and sometimes not seek care at all' says Sarah Woolnough.

The reconfiguration of clinical services continues to generate public and political controversy, locally and nationally. Given significant financial and workforce constraints, now and in the future, ...

The unprecedented slowdown in the growth of NHS funding in England since 2010 required the NHS to pursue the most ambitious programme of productivity improvement since its foundation. It has broadly ...