Recent reports
A clear road ahead: Creating a coherent quality strategy for the English NHS
Every health system should have a strategic and coordinated approach for delivering high quality health services within finite resources. Through … Read more
Deficits in the NHS 2016: A King’s Fund Report
Unaudited figures indicate that NHS commissioners (clinical commissioning groups and NHS England) and providers in aggregate ended 2015/16 in deficit … Read more
Politicians must be honest with the public about the NHS – Deficits in the NHS 2016
The King’s Fund is calling on the government to review its priorities for the NHS and be honest with the … Read more
Five big issues for health and social care after the Brexit vote
Helen McKenna of the Kings Fund writes : Health is not an area of significant EU competence; its role is … Read more
Lightning Review: Access to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services May 2016
This report by The Children’s Commissioner came to the following conclusions: — Access to CAMHS is a post code lottery: … Read more
Save the NHS bursary
The government’s plans to scrap NHS bursaries will leave student nurses, midwives and allied health professionals with over £52,000 worth … Read more
Mental health services must get the funding they need – Saffron Cordery
The phrase “parity of esteem” when used to describe the treatment of mental health services in the NHS is rightly … Read more
Understanding pressures in general practice – A King’s Fund report
Increasing demands on general practice over the past five years – not just a heavier workload but the increasing complexity … Read more
90% of GP trainees to shun full-time clinical work
Only one in ten GP trainees expect to be doing full-time clinical work in five years’ time, a major report … Read more