Siva Anandaciva, The King's Fund

Siva Anandaciva: key facts

Kind of voice: Think tank
Role: Director of Policy, Events and Partnerships
Organisation: The King's Fund
Organisation based in: Cities of London and Westminster
Quoted on: NHS waiting lists, A&E & ambulance response, Hospital discharge / bed-blocking
Tracked press citations: 8
Most recently quoted: 30 Sept 2026
First quoted: 27 Aug 2026

Who Siva Anandaciva is

Siva Anandaciva is Director of Policy, Events and Partnerships at The King's Fund, the independent health and care charity and think tank. He joined the Fund in 2017 as Chief Analyst, leading work on NHS funding, finances, productivity and performance, before being appointed Director in late 2024. Prior to The King's Fund he was Head of Analysis at NHS Providers and worked on medicines policy and urgent and emergency care in the Department of Health. He chaired the National Payment Strategy Advisory Group for NHS England and NHS Improvement, and sits on the Office of Health Economics policy committee and the BRACE Rapid Evaluation Centre steering group. He has been included in the HSJ list of the 50 most influential Black, Asian and minority ethnic figures in English health care in 2020, 2023 and 2024, and is a regular commentator on NHS finances, performance and reform.

“These figures confirm the scale of something that should never have been normalised in the NHS. Patients are routinely being treated in hospital corridors, without privacy or dignity. Pressure across the whole health and care system is spilling into A&E.”
on NHS waiting lists · 30 Sept 2026 · Read the article ↗

References for this biography

1.Siva Anandaciva | The King's Fund — Current role, career history, committee memberships, HSJ list appearances
2.Siva Anandaciva Announced As New Director Of Policy, Events And Partnerships | The King's Fund — Appointment as Director of Policy, Events and Partnerships (November 2024)
3.Board welcomes Siva Anandaciva | Barts Health's latest news — Associate Non-Executive Director appointment at Barts Health via NHS NExT Director scheme
4.The 50 most influential Black, Asian and minority ethnic people in health: Full list | HSJ — HSJ 2024 list inclusion, profile as prominent NHS policy voice and TV/radio commentator
5.THE KING'S FUND – Charity Commission — Organisation head office address and postcode: 11-13 Cavendish Square, London W1G 0AN
6.Siva Anandaciva – PharmaTimes — Corroborates appointment as Director of Policy, Events and Partnerships and prior career history

Notable achievements

Appointed Director of Policy, Events and Partnerships at The King's Fund in November 2024, having previously served as Chief Analyst since 2017. Source ↗
Chaired the National Payment Strategy Advisory Group for NHS England and NHS Improvement. Source ↗
Included in the HSJ list of the 50 most influential Black, Asian and minority ethnic figures in English health care in 2020, 2023 and 2024. Source ↗
Appointed as Associate Non-Executive Director at Barts Health NHS Trust under the NHS NExT Director scheme from January 2025. Source ↗
Led King's Fund reports showing the UK's high rate of deaths from treatable conditions compared with other countries and highlighting the state of NHS estates. Source ↗

What Siva Anandaciva has said

“Tackling A&E successfully will involve thinking about the health and care system in the round and ensuring that it is set up to deal with not only peaks of sudden demand but also to prevent rising levels of poor health across the country that leads to the steep increases in demand in the first place.”
director of policy, events and partnerships at The King's Fund · A&E & ambulance response · 29 Sept 2026 · Percentage of people waiting 12 hours or more in A&E triples, report ↗
“A&E performance delivered by the NHS was once the envy of the world but as anyone that has walked into a waiting room in recent years will be able to say, that is no longer the case.”
King's Fund director of policy, events and partnerships · A&E & ambulance response · 10 Sept 2026 · NHS England’s billion pound investment in A&E ‘not fixing’ problems ↗
“From the start, NHS league tables and star ratings were embroiled in controversy. No one could fault the desire for greater transparency. But the ratings were rightly criticised for being too simplistic in trying to boil down all the different things a hospital or ambulance service does into a single rating.”
Director of Policy at the King's Fund · Hospital discharge / bed-blocking · 27 Aug 2026 · Can the old-but-new NHS league tables revive the health service? ↗
“Decrepit NHS buildings have a real and detrimental impact on patient care, with regular examples of flooded corridors, reduced theatre capacity and roofs at risk of falling in”
director of policy at the King's Fund thinktank · Hospital discharge / bed-blocking · 27 Aug 2026 · NHS medical negligence liabilities hit £60bn amid surge in maternity payouts ↗
“This report only adds to the steady drumbeat of evidence that the UK is lagging behind other countries' health services in recovering from the [Covid-19] pandemic. Despite it being one of the prime minister's top three priorities, the progress made and political will to make this a reality, the government is finding out that achieving it will be neither quick nor easy.”
head of policy at the King's Fund thinktank · Hospital discharge / bed-blocking · 27 Aug 2026 · NHS failing to cut waiting times as promised in recovery plan, report warns ↗
“Streeting "was faced with a stagnating economy, a health system still recovering from Covid-19, rolling waves of industrial action and a febrile environment – a bad hand to be dealt"”
King's Fund director of policy · Hospital discharge / bed-blocking · 27 Aug 2026 · Wes Streeting vowed to fix ‘broken’ NHS but critics say he failed to deliver ↗
“whether the NHS really will be committed to the fundamental shift away from hospital care that the health plan proposed”
King's Fund · Hospital discharge / bed-blocking · 27 Aug 2026 · The Guardian view on mental health: the new secretary of state should make it a priority | Editorial ↗

Where Siva Anandaciva has been quoted

Revealed: 69,000 patients treated in NHS hospital corridors in a monthtelegraph.co.uk · 30 Sept 2026
Percentage of people waiting 12 hours or more in A&E triples, reporthealthcare-management.uk · 29 Sept 2026
NHS England’s billion pound investment in A&E ‘not fixing’ problemsnursingtimes.net · 10 Sept 2026
Can the old-but-new NHS league tables revive the health service?theguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
NHS medical negligence liabilities hit £60bn amid surge in maternity payoutstheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
NHS failing to cut waiting times as promised in recovery plan, report warnstheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
Wes Streeting vowed to fix ‘broken’ NHS but critics say he failed to delivertheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
The Guardian view on mental health: the new secretary of state should make it a priority | Editorialtheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026

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