Sep 29, 2024 · There is a wealth of evidence showing that some groups of people experience significantly poorer health, and significantly worse experiences of health and care services, than others.This is a longstanding injustice that has been further entrenched by the Covid-19 pandemic and cost-of-living crisis. These differences in health experiences and outcomes are avoidable, unfair and systematic, and ...

Jul 18, 2023 · What we found. Health and care staff are beginning to successfully work collaboratively across organisational and professional boundaries. However, after many years of government policies promoting organisational independence in the NHS, the switch to working together is proving challenging even within the new organising framework of an ICS.

Jan 27, 2025 · The King's Fund is a health and social care charity. We shape policy, provide leadership development services and host events for peers working across the NHS and health care system.

Jan 23, 2019 · On 7 January, the NHS long-term plan was published setting out key ambitions for the service over the next 10 years. In this explainer, we set out the main commitments in the plan and provide our view of what they might mean, highlighting the opportunities and challenges for the health and care system as it moves to put the plan into practice.

Apr 12, 2023 · Multi-year funding increases and a series of reforms resulted in major improvements in NHS performance between 2000 and 2010, but performance has declined since 2010 as a result of much lower funding increases, limited funds for capital investment, and neglect of workforce planning.Constraints on social care spending has also resulted in fewer people receiving publicly funded social care and a ...

Apr 29, 2024 · What are primary care services? Primary care services are the ‘front door’ of the NHS and the main way that people access NHS services. There are four main services: general practices, dental practices, optometrists (eye care) and community pharmacies. Primary care services account for a large proportion of NHS service providers – for example, there are more than 11,000 pharmacies across ...

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What is the cost of receiving adult social care? In 2022/23, the average cost of a local authority-funded care home place for someone aged over 65 was £842 a week. For working-age adults, the cost was £1,540 a week. In 2022/23, local authorities paid, on average, £20.57 an hour to commission externally provided home care services.

Jun 26, 2023 · What we found A system with fewer resources. The UK has below-average health spending per person compared to peer countries. Health spending as a share of GDP (gross domestic product) was just below average in 2019 but rose to just above average in 2020 (the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, which of course had a significant impact on the UK’s economic performance and spending on health ...

Feb 21, 2024 · Spending on mental health services has increased in recent years . According to the National Audit Office (), in 2021/22, the NHS spent £12 billion on mental health services in England, accounting for around 8% of the total NHS budget.The two largest areas of spending were community mental health services and inpatient care.