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.
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.
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.
NHS: Key Facts And Figures | The King's Fund
WEBJun 25, 2024 · The 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.
NHS Dentistry In England Explained - The King's Fund
WEBOct 11, 2023 · NHS dentistry provides treatment that is clinically necessary to keep mouths, teeth and gums healthy and free of pain and includes primary, community, secondary and tertiary dental services. In 2021/2022 the NHS contribution to …
The health and social care White Paper explained
WEBOn 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 ...
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 social care and how does it work? | The King's Fund
WEBMay 10, 2017 · Rather, social care is funded by people paying for their own care, by local government, or often a mixture of the two. Local government budget cuts have significantly increased pressures on the social care system, resulting in one of the most difficult policy challenges of our times. In this video we give an overview of how social care is funded.
The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan explained - The King's Fund
WEBPublished on 30 June 2023, the NHS long term workforce plan sets out the case for long-term change for the NHS workforce, and outlines plans to address an expected shortfall of between 260,000 and 360,000 staff by 2036/37. The actions set out by the plan build on existing ambitions to increase the NHS workforce – such as existing plans to ...
The Practice Of Collaborative Leadership | The King's Fund
WEBJul 18, 2023 · Given the pace of change and disruption needed to solve many of the problems facing our health and care system, The King’s Fund recommends health and care leaders extend the practise of collaborative leadership more widely with working more closely with local organisations, people and communities. This more ‘civic’ style of …