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Danielle Jefferies

Senior Analyst, Policy Team, 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

6

Topics

3

Hospital discharge / bed-blocking

Last quoted

Sept 2026

Danielle Jefferies: key facts

Kind of voice
Think tank
Role
Senior Analyst, Policy Team
Organisation
The King's Fund
Organisation based in
Cities of London and Westminster
Quoted on
Hospital discharge / bed-blocking, Dentistry access, NHS waiting lists
Tracked press citations
6
Most recently quoted
30 Sept 2026

Who Danielle Jefferies is

Danielle Jefferies is a Senior Analyst in the Policy team at The King's Fund, an independent charity and think tank working to improve health and care in England. She works with data from across the health and social care landscape, collaborating with communications and press teams to present and share data insights. Before joining the Fund, she worked at a management consulting company specialising in healthcare, where she contributed to transformational projects in NHS hospitals and ambulance services involving quantitative analysis and change management. She has a particular interest in health inequalities and urgent and emergency care, and her work includes analysis of public satisfaction with the NHS through the annual British Social Attitudes Survey. She is regularly quoted in press releases responding to monthly NHS performance statistics and has co-authored research on inequalities in NHS elective waiting lists.

“The rising costs of delayed discharges will put even more pressure on already stretched NHS budgets alongside contributing to longer waits in A&E and more harrowing cases of corridor care.”

References for this biography

  1. 1.Danielle Jefferies | The King's Fund — Confirms role as analyst in the Policy team, interest in health inequalities, and prior management consulting background in healthcare
  2. 2.Danielle Jefferies – HDR UK — Confirms senior analyst role, work analysing health and social care data, interest in urgent and emergency care and health inequalities, and involvement in British Social Attitudes Survey analysis
  3. 3.Response To NHS Performance Data | December 2024 | The King's Fund — Confirms title of Senior Analyst and her role as a named press spokesperson responding to monthly NHS performance data
  4. 4.Danielle Jefferies | Contributor | Health Service Journal — Confirms her as a named contributor to the Health Service Journal, identified as senior analyst at The King's Fund
  5. 5.Tackling Health Inequalities On NHS Waiting Lists | The King's Fund — Evidences co-authorship of a major funded report on health inequalities and elective waiting lists (November 2023)
  6. 6.Press Centre | The King's Fund — Provides organisational press office contact details (email and phone)

Notable achievements

  • Co-authored King's Fund report 'Tackling health inequalities on NHS waiting lists: learning from local case studies' (November 2023), funded by the Health Foundation, examining how NHS trusts and integrated care boards are addressing inequalities on waiting lists. Source ↗
  • Wrote HSJ article (May 2023) arguing that disaggregating waiting list data will produce more meaningful metrics and targeted solutions for elective recovery. Source ↗
  • Co-authored King's Fund long read 'Unpicking the inequalities in the elective backlogs in England', finding that in 2022 people in the most deprived areas were twice as likely to be waiting more than a year for elective care compared to people in the least deprived areas. Source ↗

What Danielle Jefferies has said

Where Danielle Jefferies has been quoted

  1. Delayed hospital discharge costs continue to soar amid bed crisisindependent.co.uk · 30 Sept 2026
  2. How did one Kent NHS trust become among the country's worst?bbc.com · 30 Sept 2026
  3. Cost of NHS delayed discharges rises to £2.7bn, figures showcareappointments.com · 30 Sept 2026
  4. Labour rebuilt the NHS in 1997 after Tories wrecked it - what's different this time?mirror.co.uk · 30 Sept 2026
  5. Waiting list for planned hospital treatment rises for third month in a roweadt.co.uk · 30 Sept 2026
  6. Norfolk hospital worst in country as NHS league tables reintroducedtheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026

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