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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.
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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.
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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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Patients’ preferences matter

Stop the silent misdiagnosis
29 May 2012
Al Mulley, Chris Trimble, Glyn Elwyn
Our paper calls for doctors to aspire to the same standards of excellence in diagnosing patients' preferences for their care as they do to diagnosing disease.
Final report from the 2012 NHS leadership and management review

Leadership and engagement for improvement in the NHS

Together we can
23 May 2012
Leadership and engagement for improvement in the NHS: together we can makes the case for engaging staff, patients and boards, and for building relationships across systems of care.
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Thinking about rationing

3 May 2012
Jo Maybin, Rudolf Klein
Our discussion paper looks at the practicalities and controversies surrounding rationing of resources, and identifies what is known about how it works in practice.
Health and wellbeing boards: System leaders or talking shops? front cover

Health and wellbeing boards

System leaders or talking shops?
12 Apr 2012
Richard Humphries, Amy Galea, Lara Sonola, Claire Mundle
Will health and wellbeing boards be able to achieve greater success than previous bodies? This paper assesses the ways in which local authorities have begun to develop new arrangements with their partners.
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Data briefing: Emergency hospital admissions for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions

Identifying the potential for reductions
3 Apr 2012
Yang Tian, Anna Dixon, Haiyan Gao
Our data briefing looks at patterns of admissions for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions and assesses how emergency admissions could be reduced.
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Improving safety in maternity services

A toolkit for teams
29 Mar 2012
Vinice Thomas, Anna Dixon
The tips and tools in this resource will help maternity teams to implement changes that will deliver benefits to women and families.
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Continuity of care for older hospital patients

A call for action
27 Mar 2012
Jocelyn Cornwell, Lara Sonola, Ros Levenson, Emmi Poteliakhoff
This paper focuses on those aged 70 years and older with multiple health problems and explores how continuity of care affects them and the people closest to them.

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