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How is the NHS performing?
January 2012 quarterly monitoring reportOur fourth quarterly monitoring report provides a regular update on how the NHS is coping as it grapples with the evolving reform agenda.
28 January 2012 - John Appleby, James Thompson, Amy Galea
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Service-line management
Can it improve quality and efficiency?How successfully are trusts implementing service-line management? This paper considers what helps and what hinders this way of working and the potential benefits of using this approach.
26 January 2012 - Catherine Foot, Lara Sonola, Jo Maybin, Chris Naylor
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Integrated care for patients and populations: Improving outcomes by working together
A report to the Department of Health and the NHS Future ForumThis report from The King's Fund and Nuffield Trust is intended to support the Department of Health's development of a national strategy on integrated health and social care.
05 January 2012 - Nick Goodwin, Judith Smith, Alisha Davies, Claire Perry, Rebecca Rosen, Anna Dixon, Jennifer Dixon, Chris Ham
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Data briefing: Emergency bed use
What the numbers tell usOur data briefing considers whether reducing the use of hospital beds for emergency admissions could help with NHS productivity improvements needed by 2015.
22 December 2011 - Emmi Poteliakhoff, James Thompson
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Improving health and health care in London
Who will take the lead?This report highlights the particular challenges that health care organisations in London face and suggests ways to facilitate appropriate service change.
13 December 2011 - John Appleby, Chris Ham, Candice Imison, Tony Harrison, Sean Boyle, Beccy Ashton, James Thompson
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Case management
What it is and how it can best be implementedThis paper looks at the core components of a successful case management programme and considers how it can be used to deliver high-quality integrated care.
17 November 2011 - Shilpa Ross, Natasha Curry, Nick Goodwin
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Economic regulation in health care
What can we learn from other regulators?With the government looking to extend Monitor’s powers to act as a regulator for the health care sector, this paper takes a look at the lessons that can be learned from economic regulation in health care in other countries and from regulation of other market sectors in the UK.
03 November 2011 - Anna Dixon, Tony Harrison, Claire Mundle
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How is the NHS performing?
October 2011 quarterly monitoring reportOur third quarterly monitoring report provides a regular update on how the NHS is coping as it grapples with the evolving reform agenda.
14 October 2011 - John Appleby, James Thompson, Amy Galea
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Issues facing commissioners of end-of-life care
This paper highlights the current barriers to commissioning personalised, integrated services for end-of-life care and outlines the opportunities commissioners have to improve services in the future.
29 September 2011 - Rachael Addicott, Jenny Hiley
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Integrated care summary: What is it? Does it work? What does it mean for the NHS?
Chris Ham summarises the different forms of integrated care and their impact so far on the NHS. Based on our 2010 review (Ham and Curry), it has been prepared in the light of the increased interest in integrated care arising out of the work of the NHS Future Forum and the government’s response.
22 September 2011 - Chris Ham
