The Health and Care Act: six key questions - The King's Fund
May 16, 2022 — Long answer. At the heart of the changes brought about by the Act is the formalisation of integrated care systems (ICSs).ICSs are partnerships that bring providers and commissioners of NHS services across a geographical area together with local authorities and other local partners to collectively plan health and care …
The NHS Budget And How It Has Changed | The King's Fund
Jun 18, 2024 — How is the NHS funded? The vast majority of public NHS funding comes from general taxation and National Insurance contributions. A small proportion of funding (1% of the total Department of Health and Social Care budget in 2022/23) comes from patient charges for services such as prescriptions and dental treatment.The level of NHS funding in a given year is set by central government through the ...
NHS: Key Facts And Figures | The King's Fund
Jun 25, 2024 — How much is spent on health and care? In 2022/23, the Department for Health and Social Care spent £182 billion.This money is used to fund a wide range of health and care services, including GP services, ambulance, mental health, community and hospital services that are commissioned by the NHS, as well as public health …
What is happening to life expectancy in England? - The King's Fund
Apr 10, 2024 — Life expectancy estimates are derived from the mortality rates for a population, so life expectancy rises when mortality rates fall and vice versa. Period life expectancy at birth is an estimate of the average number of years a newborn baby would live if the mortality rates in a specific period remained unchanged for the rest of the baby’s life.
Integrated Care Systems Explained - The King's Fund
Aug 19, 2022 — Where did ICSs come from? ICSs have been developing for several years. They evolved from sustainability and transformation plans/partnerships (STPs) – geographical groupings of health and care organisations formed in 2016 to develop ‘place-based plans’ for the future of health and care services in their areas. Since then, local systems have been strengthening these partnerships and ...
Insight And Analysis | Our Work | The King's Fund
Our archive of independent research on health and social care. From reports and long reads to blogs and podcasts, Read, listen and watch our latest insight and analysis today.
What are health inequalities? - The King's Fund
Jun 17, 2022 — Inequalities of what? Health inequalities are ultimately about differences in the status of people’s health.But the term is also used to refer to differences in the care that people receive and the opportunities that they have to lead healthy lives – both of which can contribute to their health status.
What Is Social Prescribing? - The King's Fund
Nov 4, 2020 — This explainer was originally written by David Buck and published in February 2017. It was updated in November 2020 by Leo Ewbank. Social prescribing enables GPs, nurses and other primary care professionals to refer people to a range of local, non-clinical services to support their health and wellbeing.
What is social care and how does it work? | The King's Fund
May 10, 2017 — Social care is delivered by a wide range of organisations and professionals, and within families and communities. More people work in adult social care than you might think, but the number of unpaid carers dwarfs both the health and social care workforce put together.
The health and social care White Paper explained
On 11 February 2021, the Department of Health and Social Care published the White Paper Integration and innovation: working together to improve health and social care for all, which sets out legislative proposals for a health and care Bill.. The White Paper brings together proposals that build on the recommendations made by NHS England and NHS Improvement in Integrating care: next steps to ...