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Dan Wellings

Senior Fellow, Policy, The King's Fund

The King's Fund is based in Cities of London and Westminster — the organisation’s base, not a personal address.

Press citations

4

Topics

2

GP access

Last quoted

Sept 2026

first cited Aug 2026

Dan Wellings: key facts

Kind of voice
Think tank
Role
Senior Fellow, Policy
Organisation
The King's Fund
Organisation based in
Cities of London and Westminster
Quoted on
GP access, Hospital discharge / bed-blocking
Tracked press citations
4
Most recently quoted
30 Sept 2026
First quoted
27 Aug 2026

Who Dan Wellings is

Dan Wellings is a Senior Fellow in the Policy team at The King's Fund, where his work focuses on patient and staff experience and public perceptions of the NHS and social care system. He joined The King's Fund in April 2017, having previously served as Head of Insight and Feedback at NHS England, where his team ran national surveys including the GP Patient Survey, the Cancer Patient Experience Survey, and the NHS Staff Survey. Before NHS England, he worked as Research Director at Ipsos MORI, specialising in public attitudes to the NHS and social care. He holds a Masters in public health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is a lead author of the annual British Social Attitudes survey analysis on NHS and social care satisfaction, jointly published by The King's Fund and the Nuffield Trust, and is regularly quoted in the press on trends in public satisfaction with health and care services.

“The rise in public satisfaction will be welcome relief for an NHS that has seen satisfaction plummet in recent years. But whether this marks the start of a genuine recovery or is just brief respite remains an open question.”

References for this biography

  1. 1.Dan Wellings | The King's Fund — Establishes current role as Senior Fellow, Policy; career history at NHS England and Ipsos MORI; MPH from LSHTM; focus areas of patient/staff experience and public perceptions
  2. 2.Dan Wellings | The Nuffield Trust — Corroborates role and career history; links to LinkedIn and X accounts identifying him
  3. 3.Public Satisfaction With The NHS Slumps To New Record Low | The King's Fund — Identifies Wellings as lead analyst of the 2024 BSA survey reporting record-low NHS satisfaction of 24%
  4. 4.British Social Attitudes Survey: Boost in Public Satisfaction With the NHS for the First Time Since Pandemic | The King's Fund — Documents Wellings as named spokesperson and analyst for the 2026 BSA results; includes press office contact
  5. 5.British Social Attitudes Survey: Public Satisfaction With Social Care Hits New Low | The King's Fund — Names Wellings as co-author of the 2024 social care BSA analysis; provides press office phone number
  6. 6.Do we know what we want? Understanding public perceptions of social care funding | The Health Foundation — Confirms Wellings's expertise in public perceptions of social care funding; corroborates prior roles at NHS England and Ipsos MORI
  7. 7.THE KING'S FUND – Charity Commission register — Confirms The King's Fund head office address and postcode: 11–13 Cavendish Square, London W1G 0AN

Notable achievements

  • Lead author of the 2024 British Social Attitudes survey analysis showing NHS satisfaction fell to a record low of 24%, the lowest in the survey's 41-year history Source ↗
  • Lead author of the 2026 British Social Attitudes survey analysis showing the first rise in NHS public satisfaction since the pandemic Source ↗
  • Contributed analysis to the 2024 BSA social care findings showing public satisfaction with social care hit a new low of 13% Source ↗

What Dan Wellings has said

Where Dan Wellings has been quoted

  1. Public satisfaction with general practice highest since 2021gponline.com · 30 Sept 2026
  2. Corridor care ‘new normal’ in England for one in five NHS inpatientstheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
  3. The right wants to destroy our fragile faith in the NHS – don’t let that happen | Polly Toynbeetheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
  4. Public satisfaction with the NHS rises for first time since 2019theguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026

Related media coverage

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Chairs, directors and heads of policy institutes, foundations and think tanks speaking for their organisation’s research and policy position. Citations are counted by an automated scan of UK press coverage and may be incomplete. Roles, biographies and contact details are researched and human-reviewed before they appear here; anything not yet reviewed is simply absent rather than shown unverified. This profile was last updated on 5 Oct 2026. See the methodology for how this page is built, or email contact@bridgeheadcommunications.com to correct anything on it.