Dave Buck reflects on The King’s Fund’s health inequalities conference and stresses that the government must do more to set ...

Pramod Achan, former clinical director at Barts Health NHS Trust, reflects on the value of giving clinical leaders space to ...

Sally Hulks looks back on the five-year clinical leadership development programme co-designed with Barts Health NHS Trust.

I have mixed feelings about euphemisms. They can make it easier for some of us to talk about sensitive health issues – think ‘senior moments’ instead of ‘dementia’ or ‘women’s troubles’ instead of ...

Responding to the Independent Commission on Adult Social Care announcement, Simon Bottery, Senior Fellow at The King’s Fund, said: ‘Today’s announcement marking the formal start of the Independent ...

This is a guest blog. Guest authors bring different perspectives and diverse voices to our blog. They do not always represent the views of The King’s Fund. There is an apparent disconnect in the data ...

It is deeply unjust that some groups of people have significantly worse experiences of health and care than others. These differences in health experiences and outcomes are avoidable, unfair and ...

Caroline Woolland is responsible for leading human resources at The King’s Fund. Before joining the Fund in April 2025, Caroline held a range of people leadership roles in private, public and ...

The health of children in England is in decline. While many factors are at play – including a rise in poverty fuelling food insecurity – it is not only how much food our children are eating (whether ...

Children’s health and wellbeing has seen a concerning decline in recent years, with children in the UK experiencing some of the worst health outcomes in Europe. Many lifelong health issues are ...