Projects
Our projects combine original research with objective analysis to influence health and social care policy, support managers in health care and generate informed debate
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Building world class commissioning: what role can external organisations play?
Explores the role and impact that external organisations providing commissioning support services have had so far, and might have in the future. -
Choice at the End of Life
The King's Fund is evaluating Marie Curie's flagship Delivering Choice programme, which helps patients make informed choices about where they wish to die. -
Enhancing the Healing Environment
Encouraging and enabling nurse-led teams to work in partnership with patients to improve the environment in which they deliver care. -
From Ward to Board
Examining the role executive nurses can play to influence the clinical quality agenda at board level. -
GSK IMPACT Awards
The IMPACT Awards are designed to recognise and reward charities that are doing excellent work to improve people’s health. - Informed Choice: helping patients make better decisions
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Inquiry into the Quality of General Practice in England
Establishing what good, cost-effective care looks like from both a patient and a health system point of view. -
Partners for Health in London
Aims to assist health care providers to make explicit their ideas and explanations about how and why particular health care interventions work. -
Patient choice: how patients choose and how providers respond
Examining the implementation of patient choice policy and its impact on the quality of services in the NHS. -
Predicting and Reducing Re-admission to Hospital
Development of a software tool that helps PCTs use inpatient data to identify patients at risk of re-hospitalisation within a year.
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Progress made by the NHS in the last 13 years
Examining what progress the NHS in England has made since 1997 against eight criteria for a high-performing health system. -
Quality and Outcomes Framework
Aims to examine the impact of the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) on general practice, public health outcomes and health inequalities in England. -
Quality in a Cold Climate
Providing NHS leaders with analysis and advice on the scale of the financial challenge facing the health service and the implications for action. -
Reforming the health system: local experiences
Explores the combined impact of health reforms since 2002 (in collaboration with the University of Birmingham). -
Safer Births: Supporting maternity services to improve safety
The Safer Births service improvement programme aims to improve the safety of maternity services by supporting frontline professionals. -
Social Care: reform of funding & delivery
Seeks to maintain the momentum for change to the funding and delivery of the social care system. -
Technology in the NHS
Our work to identify what determines whether and how technology is adopted in the NHS, and how barriers to adoption and uptake could be overcome. -
The 21st-century doctor
Aims to engage medical students around the country in the issues surrounding medical professionalism. -
The Point of Care: Improving Patients' Experience
The Point of Care Programme aims to help health care staff in hospitals deliver the quality of care they would want for themselves and their own families. -
Whole Systems Demonstrator Action Research Network
Combines research and learning opportunities to examine the use of telecare and telehealth in enabling and improving the management of long-term conditions.
