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 high-quality 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. -
General Election 2010
This general election we provided commentary and analysis on the health and social care issues of the three main parties. You can still see the manifesto guides, audio and video content and key election questions, as well as read the latest blogs on the new coalition government's health policies. -
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
This project explores whether or not comparative hospital data helps patients to make better choices. -
Inquiry into the Quality of General Practice in England
This Inquiry will collect and examine evidence on the quality of care and services provided by GPs and other health professionals working in general practice. -
Mental Health in a Cold Climate
The NHS is facing the most significant financial challenge in its history, and the mental health sector will need to play a key role is responding to this challenge. This project will explore opportunities to re-design mental health services in order to improve productivity without sacrificing quality of care. -
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.
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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. -
Progress made by the NHS in the past 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
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 (WSDAN)
Combines research and learning opportunities to examine the use of telecare and telehealth in enabling and improving the management of long-term conditions.
