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About Us - The King's Fund
In 1897, the then Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, founded The King’s Fund to raise money for London’s voluntary hospitals. The work of the Fund has evolved over time in response to the changing needs of the population, but our mission – to improve health and care for all – has endured. The money invested in the Fund more than a ...
How health care is funded - The King's Fund
Mar 23, 2017 · The majority of Americans get health insurance through an employer (their own or a family member’s), funded by a combination of employee and employer tax-exempt premium contributions (Robertson et al 2014). Most plans require members to cover some of their care costs through co-payments and other charges.
Insight And Analysis | Our Work | The King's Fund
Insight and analysis. Explore our independent insight and analysis of health and care in England. Delve into our in-depth reports and research on pressing issues, make sense of what's going on with our explainers and animations, or tune in the latest episode of our podcast. Our archive of independent research on health and social care.
The NHS Budget And How It Has Changed | The King's Fund
Jun 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.
The NHS Long-term Plan Explained - The King's Fund
Jan 23, 2019 · To unlock this funding, national NHS bodies were asked to develop a long-term plan for the service. The resulting document, the NHS long-term plan, was published on 7 January 2019. This settlement represents a substantial improvement on the funding growth the NHS has seen since 2009/10, which has averaged approximately 1 per cent a year in real ...
Mental health 360: funding and costs - The King's Fund
Feb 21, 2024 · Funding targets are being met. The NHS Long Term Plan committed to increase investment in mental health services faster than the overall NHS budget every year between 2019 and 2024. This would mean mental health services receiving a growing share of the NHS budget, worth at least a further £2.3 billion a year in real terms by 2023/24.
NHS: Key Facts And Figures | The King's Fund
Jun 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.
Social Care 360 - The King's Fund
Mar 13, 2024 · There is nothing here to suggest that social care has turned a corner. Within the next 12 months voters will go to the polls in the UK general election, and as The King’s Fund has argued, if the next government wants to ‘fix’ social care, it will need to: increase funding to stabilise the sector and enable providers to attract, retain and ...
The NHS in a nutshell - The King's Fund
Jun 5, 2024 · Health inequalities in a nutshell. Health inequalities are avoidable, unfair and systematic differences in health between different groups of people. Here we examine the key data on this complex and wide-ranging issue. 9 February 2024. 3-minute read. Data and charts.