About Us - The King's Fund
WEBIn 1897, the then Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, founded The King’s Fund to raise money for London’s voluntary hospitals. The work of the Fund has evolved over time in response to the changing needs of the population, but our mission – to improve health and care for all – has endured. The money invested in the Fund more than a ...
The NHS budget and how it has changed - The King's Fund
WEBJun 18, 2024 · Since 1955/56, spending on the NHS has increased by an average of 3.6% per year in real terms, but this masks substantial variation over time depending on the decisions made by the government of the day. Looking more recently, between 2015/16 and 2022/23 spending increased by 2.8% a year on average in real terms.
Leadership and leadership development in health care
WEBA key challenge facing all NHS organisations is to nurture cultures that ensure the delivery of continuously improving high-quality, safe and compassionate health care.Leadership is the most influential factor in shaping organisational culture and ensuring the necessary leadership behaviours, strategies and qualities are developed is fundamental.
What are health inequalities? - The King's Fund
WEBHealth inequalities can therefore involve differences in: health status, for example, life expectancy. access to care, for example, availability of given services. quality and experience of care, for example, levels of patient satisfaction. behavioural risks to health, for example, smoking rates. wider determinants of health, for example ...
NHS: Key Facts And Figures | The King's Fund
WEBThe NHS is one of the world’s largest employers, with around 1.34 million full-time equivalent staff in England, as of February 2024. Consequently, the wage bill for the NHS makes up a substantial proportion of its budget. In 2022/23, the total cost of employing the staff in the NHS was £71.1 billion – 45.6% of the NHS budget.
The Health and Care Act: six key questions - The King's Fund
WEBMay 16, 2022 · Short answer. The main purpose of the Health and Care Act is to establish a legislative framework that supports collaboration and partnership-working to integrate services for patients. Among a wide range of other measures, the Act also includes targeted changes to public health, social care and the oversight of quality and safety.
Integrated Care Systems Explained | The King's Fund
WEBAug 19, 2022 · Integrated care systems (ICSs) are partnerships that bring together NHS organisations, local authorities and others to take collective responsibility for planning services, improving health and reducing inequalities across geographical areas. There are 42 ICSs across England, covering populations of around 500,000 to 3 million people.
The NHS Long-term Plan Explained - The King's Fund
WEBJan 23, 2019 · In June 2018, the Prime Minister announced a new five-year funding settlement for the NHS: a 3.4 per cent average real-terms annual increase in NHS England’s budget between 2019/20 and 2023/24 (a £20.5 billion increase over the period). To unlock this funding, national NHS bodies were asked to …
What is happening to life expectancy in England? - The King's Fund
WEBApr 10, 2024 · By 2019, life expectancy at birth in England had increased to 79.8 years for males and 83.5 years for females (see Figure 2). However, the Covid-19 pandemic caused life expectancy in 2020 to fall sharply – by 1.3 years for males, to 78.5 years, and by 0.9 years for females, to 82.6 years – the same level as about a decade earlier.
What Is Compassionate Leadership? | The King's Fund
WEBFeb 15, 2022 · Trzeciak and colleagues make a compelling case for ‘compassionomics’, the knowledge and scientific study of the effects of compassionate health care.Their research review of hundreds of published studies shows that compassion is the most powerful intervention in health care, and that compassionate health care is beneficial for patients through improving clinical outcomes; for health care ...