What have we done? We have over-intellectualised health. We—the youthful, affluent, busy, well educated elite—run the NHS as we would want for ourselves. We think of how we would choose […]
Guest writers
Verity Murricane: What if the NHS changed its approach to risk?
Last year the King’s Fund ran an essay competition for contributions to its series “the NHS if,” exploring hypothetical futures for the health service. Here, we publish the runner-up entry. […]
Ashish Jha: Where next for Obamacare?
Since its inception, nearly every member of the Republican Party has run vowing to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Ashish Jha looks at what might happen next. […]
Stella Vig: The GMC’s support for doctors during the NHS crisis is welcomed
Doctors have to make difficult clinical judgements about their patients on a daily basis and are trained to do so. This decision making develops with experience and the profession balances risk versus […]
Nick Hopkinson: Bad air, poor memory
One explanation that has been offered for the UK’s self-destructive decision to leave the European Union is that there are now few people left alive who can remember the ruined […]
Chris Ham and Don Berwick: An insight into frontline clinical care in acute hospitals
During the past year we have become increasingly aware of the pressures facing frontline clinicians working in acute hospitals. Each of us spent time in 2016 shadowing a general physician […]
Liudas Jurkonis: How can corruption in the Lithuanian healthcare system be fought?
At a recent conference organized by POLA (Lithuanian Cancer Patient Coalition), I shared my insights regarding corruption in Lithuanian healthcare system. Due to the complexity of the issue, the main question […]
Taryn Youngstein: Our NHS is not up for grabs, Mr Trump
A year ago, the idea that a property magnate come reality TV star could become the most powerful person on earth was unthinkable. A week ago, the idea that he […]
David Buck: It’s time to address the conundrum of children’s and young people’s health
In the past few years, our focus at The King’s Fund—on integration, new models of care, and increasingly, place-based population health systems—has been concerned with the physical and mental health […]
Vanessa Yarwood: Stories of Samos refugee camp—“The situation seems to be reaching boiling point”
Our team arrives on mass to the camp, greeted by cold steel fences criss-crossing up two metres high and crowned by coils of sharp barbs. This is juxtaposed by colourful […]