Research

Research into the UK's health system is one of our core activities and has been since we were founded over 70 years ago. We undertake projects that will provide evidence on key areas of health and social care and which build upon our established areas of expertise.

Featured work

Doomed to repeat? Lessons from the history of NHS reform 15/10/2018 • Nigel Edwards | Mark Dayan | William Palmer | Helen Buckingham | Dr Rebecca Rosen

Report

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The NHS at 70 22/06/2018

Spotlight

To mark the BBC’s coverage of the NHS’s 70th birthday, researchers from the Health Foundation, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, The Kin...

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International comparisons of health and wellbeing in early childhood 15/03/2018 • Dr Ronny Cheung

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Comparison of control charts for monitoring clinical performance using binary data

Journal article

25/09/2017

Time series charts are increasingly used by clinical teams to monitor their performance, but statistical control charts are not widely used, partly due to uncertainty about which chart to use. Although there is a large literature on methods, there are few systematic comparisons of charts for detecting changes in rates of binary clinical performance data.

Summary booklets on lessons for large-scale general practice

Summary

13/09/2017 • Dr Rebecca Rosen | Stephanie Kumpunen | Natasha Curry | Dr Alisha Davies | Dr Luisa Pettigrew | Lucia Kossarova

Booklets to accompany our report from July 2016.

Sustainability and transformation plans in London

Report

12/09/2017 • Professor Chris Ham CBE | Hugh Alderwick | Nigel Edwards | Sally Gainsbury

An independent analysis of the October 2016 STPs (completed in March 2017).

The bottom line: Understanding the NHS deficit and why it won’t go away

Report

31/08/2017 • Sally Gainsbury

This briefing reveals the true underlying state of the NHS’s finances today, and outlines prospects for the next three to four years.

Primary Care Home: Evaluating a new model of primary care

Report

24/08/2017 • Stephanie Kumpunen | Dr Rebecca Rosen | Lucia Kossarova | Chris Sherlaw-Johnson

This report is our evaluation of the Primary Care Home model - a way of organising care for groups of up to 50,000 patients.

Learning from Scotland’s NHS

Report

05/07/2017 • Mark Dayan | Nigel Edwards

This report looks at Scotland’s unique health care system, and explores how other parts of the UK might be able to learn from it.

British Social Attitudes survey

Project

28/06/2017

An analysis of the National Centre for Social Research’s British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey produced in cooperation with the King's Fund.

Getting a Brexit deal that works for the NHS

Report

31/05/2017 • Mark Dayan

The impacts of Brexit will be wide ranging for the NHS – from finances to staffing and the regulatory environment. This briefing explores what it would take to get an effective Brexit deal for the NHS.

NHS funding choices and the 2017 General Election

Report

22/05/2017 • John Appleby | Sally Gainsbury

We set out different scenarios about possible future spending on the NHS in England including an analysis and comparison of the latest pledges from the three main parties' manifestos.

Focus on: Emergency hospital care for children and young people

Report

24/04/2017 • Eilís Keeble | Lucia Kossarova

As the NHS emerges from its toughest winter yet, attention has been focused on the impact of older people on the health system. But younger people (up to the age of 24) are also frequent users of emergency care and, like older people, require specialist care.