Health And Social Care Policy, Leadership Development And …
WEBSep 12, 2024 · Supporting healthier lives – the shift towards prevention. Join us in October 2024 to delve into how a prevention approach to health and care can create a healthier nation. The King's Fund is a health and social care charity. We shape policy, provide leadership development services and host events for …
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 ...
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
WEBShort 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.
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.
What are health inequalities? - The King's Fund
WEBJun 17, 2022 · Health 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 ...
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 …
Community Pharmacy Explained - The King's Fund
WEBDec 16, 2020 · Community pharmacy, sometimes called retail pharmacy, makes up one of the four pillars of the primary care system in England, along with general practice, optical services and dentistry. It is arguably most well-known as a dispenser and retailer of medicines, but its role is in fact much broader and includes other …
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.
GP funding and contracts explained - The King's Fund
WEBThere are three 1 different types of GP contract arrangements used by NHS commissioners in England – General Medical Services (GMS), Personal Medical Services (PMS) and Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS). The GMS contract is the national standard GP contract. In 2018/19, around 70 per cent of GP practices operated under it 2.