Archive

This page contains details of a selection of King's Fund projects that are now completed. For more information about any of our past or present work, contact our Information and Library Service.

BME access to care

This programme of work aimed to pull together the evidence base about inequalities in access to care experienced by black and minority ethnic groups.

Care Services Inquiry

The results of our year-long inquiry into the state of care services for older people in London culminated in the publication of a series of reports.

Changing Days project

This project, which ran between December 1994 and January 2000, aimed to improve the quality of day-time opportunities for people with learning disabilities.

Corporate Citizenship: Claiming the health dividend

This project aimed to identify how the NHS could implement socially, economically and environmentally aware policies in all aspects of its activities.

Grow your own to keep your own? Developing London's NHS workforce

This strand of work was a development of previous King's Fund research into London's NHS workforce trends and international recruitment, looking at their impact on future service delivery.

Imagine London

This project was designed to gather young Londoners' views on how London could be made a healthier city in which to live and work.

Long-term and community care team

This team was concerned with physical disability, care of older people and mental illness, as well as learning disabilities. The team worked on various projects for more than 20 years.

NHS market futures work programme

During 2005, the King’s Fund examined three critical aspects of the new NHS market – regulation, commissioning and primary care, and incentives.

Promoting Action on Clinical Effectiveness programme (PACE)

PACE was a national programme funded by the then NHS Executive. It cost about £1.2 million over three years, from autumn 1995 to December 1998.

Promoting Patient Choice

This initiative, which ran from 1991 to 1997, encouraged clinicians and patients to participate in shared clinical decision-making through the provision of accurate, clear and objective information.

Putting Health First

This programme of work, which ran for a year, aimed to raise the profile of public health among policy-makers and professionals through research, discussion and partnership activities.

Rehabilitation and intermediate care

This programme ended in September 2002. The final programme publication, Developing Intermediate Care: A guide for health and social service professionals, was launched in October 2002.

Review of mental health funding

A major review of future funding of mental health services in England. The final report, Paying the Price, was published in May 2008.

SHARE project

This project was a national health and race information and advice centre that ran from 1991 to 1997, producing databases of the literature on, and who to contact in, health and race.

Wanless Health Care Spending Review

Our Future Health Secured? A review of NHS funding and performance was published in 2007, five years on from Sir Derek Wanless's original review for the Treasury.

Wanless Social Care Review

In March 2006, the King’s Fund published the first comprehensive analysis of the demand for social care for older people in England and estimates of spending requirements over the next 20 years.

Windmill 2007

A major initiative to model the impact of the current health service reforms, this project was undertaken in partnership with Loop2, Monitor and Nuffield Hospitals.

Publications

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