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How should we pay for health care in future front cover

How should we pay for health care in future?

Results of deliberative events with the public
15 Apr 2013
Amy Galea, Anna Dixon, Anastasia Knox, Dan Wellings
In collaboration with Ipsos MORI, we held two deliberative events with members of the general public (one in London and one in Leeds) to find out what they thought about future spending on health and social care, and how that spending might be funded.
Improving the allocation of health resources in England front cover

Improving the allocation of health resources in England

How to decide who gets what
11 Apr 2013
David Buck, Anna Dixon
While the principles behind resource allocation in the English NHS have changed little since the mid-1970s, the NHS has changed considerably. This paper argues that the resource allocation system needs to change accordingly.
Transforming our health care system: ten priorities for commissioners front cover

Transforming our health care system: Ten priorities for commissioners

28 Mar 2013
Chris Naylor, Candace Imison, Rachael Addicott, David Buck, Nick Goodwin, Tony Harrison, Shilpa Ross, Lara Sonola, Yang Tian, Natasha Curry
Health care commissioners will need to deliver a sustainable system in the face of the most challenging financial and organisational environment seen in decades. Here, we set out ten priorities for commissioners to help them drive forward the changes needed.
Making integrated care happen at scale and pace front cover

Making integrated care happen at scale and pace

Lessons from experience
21 Mar 2013
Chris Ham, Nicola Walsh
We draw on examples of good practice to set out the 16 steps that need to be taken to make integrated care a reality.
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Volunteering in health and care

Securing a sustainable future
14 Mar 2013
Chris Naylor, Lisa Weaks, David Buck
Our report looks at the important part that volunteers play in improving patient experience, addressing health inequalities, and building a closer relationship between services and communities.
How is the health and social care system performing? February 2013 quarterly monitoring report

How is the health and social care system performing? February 2013

Quarterly monitoring report
14 Feb 2013
John Appleby, Richard Humphries, James Thompson, Amy Galea
This quarter's monitoring report finds that, while most NHS organisations are on track to meet financial targets, it is clear that pressures are growing towards the end of the second year of the so-called Nicholson Challenge.
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Spending on health and social care over the next 50 years

Why think long term?
31 Jan 2013
John Appleby
This report considers the drivers of spending on health and long-term care, and asks whether spending must or should consume such large proportions of GDP in the future, and the fiscal feasibility of this.
Developing supportive design for people with dementia - The King’s Fund’s Enhancing the Healing Environment Programme 2009-2012 | by Sarah Waller CBE, Abigail Masterson, Hedley Finn

Developing supportive design for people with dementia

The King’s Fund’s Enhancing the Healing Environment Programme 2009-2012
9 Jan 2013
Sarah Waller CBE, Abigail Masterson, Hedley Finn
Our publication marks the completion of 26 schemes in 23 NHS acute, community and mental health hospitals in England to improve the environment of care for people with dementia.
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General practice in London: supporting improvements in quality

5 Dec 2012
Veena Raleigh, Yang Tian, Nick Goodwin, Anna Dixon, James Thompson, Christopher Millet, Michael Soljak
An independent report giving fresh analysis of the challenges faced by general practice in London, and the improvements that will be needed to address them.
Health policy under the coalition government - A mid-term assessment | by Sarah Gregory, Anna Dixon, Chris Ham

Health policy under the coalition government

A mid-term assessment
28 Nov 2012
Sarah Gregory, Anna Dixon, Chris Ham
Written halfway through the 2010–2014 parliament, this review considers how the NHS is performing under the coalition government, following on from The King’s Fund’s major review of NHS performance from 1997 to 2010.
Improving GP services in England - Exploring the association between quality of care and the experience of patients | by Veena Raleigh, Francesca Frosini

Improving GP services in England

Exploring the association between quality of care and the experience of patients
7 Nov 2012
Veena Raleigh, Francesca Frosini
Using data for more than 8,000 general practices in England, this paper examines the association between patients’ perceptions about the non-clinical aspects of care and practice performance on measures of clinical quality.
Payment by Results front cover

Payment by Results

How can payment systems help to deliver better care?
2 Nov 2012
John Appleby, Tony Harrison, Loraine Hawkins, Anna Dixon
Our report reviews the role and objectives of payment systems in the English NHS, focusing on Payment by Results (PbR).
How is the NHS performing? September 2012 - Quarterly monitoring report | by John Appleby, James Thompson, Amy Galea

How is the NHS performing? September 2012

Quarterly monitoring report
26 Sep 2012
John Appleby, James Thompson, Amy Galea
This quarter's report finds that NHS performance is holding up well, but there is concern that quality of care may suffer as financial pressures bite from next year.
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Dealing with financially unsustainable providers: how will the failure regime work?

19 Sep 2012
Tony Harrison, Anna Dixon
This paper explains why a failure regime is required in the NHS, outlines how the failure regime for NHS trusts (currently being applied in South London) works and how the failure regime for foundation trusts introduced by the Health and Social Care Act 2012 will work in future.
Transforming the delivery of health and social care - The case for fundamental change | by Chris Ham, Anna Dixon, Beatrice Brooke

Transforming the delivery of health and social care

The case for fundamental change
6 Sep 2012
Chris Ham, Anna Dixon, Beatrice Brooke
This paper explores how the current health and social care delivery system has failed to keep pace with the population's needs and expectations.
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Clustering of unhealthy behaviours over time

Implications for policy and practice
23 Aug 2012
David Buck, Francesca Frosini
Our paper looks at how smoking, excessive drinking, poor diet and lack of exercise cluster in the English population and how that is changing over time.
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Older people and emergency bed use

Exploring variation
9 Aug 2012
Candace Imison, James Thompson, Emmi Poteliakhoff
This paper explores factors that might be driving the significant variation in use of hospital beds by patients over 65 admitted as an emergency.
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Preparing for the Francis report: how to assure quality in the NHS

26 Jul 2012
Anna Dixon, Catherine Foot, Tony Harrison
With the Francis Inquiry report due in the autumn, we set out our views on how the system of quality assurance needs to evolve and how it should operate.
Front cover of Never again? The story of the Health and Social Care Act

Never Again?

The story of the Health and Social Care Act 2012
12 Jul 2012
Nick Timmins
Written by Nicholas Timmins, this book explains why and how the Health and Social Care Act became law.
How is the NHS performing? Quarterly Monitoring report front cover for May 2012

How is the NHS performing? May 2012

Quarterly monitoring report
31 May 2012
John Appleby, James Thompson, Amy Galea
The May 2012 monitoring report looks back at how the NHS performed during the first year of the spending squeeze.

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