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Catching them early: how are primary schools supporting children with emotional and behavioural needs?

22 Feb 2007
Simon Lawton-Smith
Article reporting on The King's Fund research into how primary schools are supporting children with emotional and behavioural needs.

Deficits and lower funding: the good news

15 Feb 2007
Niall Dickson
An article by Niall Dickson from The King's Fund's Insight magazine, arguing that the current financial pressures on the NHS could be more of an opportunity than a threat.

The 55 billion pound question

29 Jan 2007
John Appleby
Our Chief Economist John Appleby cuts up the 'NHS cake' to show where all the money has gone.

Niall Dickson on the future of the NHS workforce

18 Jan 2007
Niall Dickson
Niall Dickson explains why workforce planning in health is a nightmare.

Tribunals and tribulations

16 Jan 2007
Simon Lawton-Smith
Simon Lawton-Smith argues that Scotland's experience of compulsory community treatment orders provides some useful pointers for the forthcoming Mental Health (Amendment) Act in England and Wales.

The reconfiguration of hospital services in England

16 Jan 2007
Jo Maybin
Jo Maybin says ministers face a struggle to win over sceptics about NHS reform.

Operating framework is ambitious but fails to convince on commissioning

12 Dec 2006
Jennifer Dixon
Jennifer Dixon argues that the NHS chief executive's first major report outlines a well-argued agenda for health service reform, but warns that commissioning may remain too weak.

Return to the windmill - behavioural modelling and the future

4 Dec 2006
Alasdair Liddell, Laurie McMahon
The lack of a 'big picture' of where NHS reforms will take us means investment and strategic planning are severely hampered. Alasdair Liddell and Laurie McMahon describe a behavioural modelling approach that can help.

Interventions that change clinician behaviour: mapping the literature

27 Nov 2006
Ruth Robertson, Karen Jochelson
The King's Fund was commissioned to carry out this literature review on clinician behaviour on behalf of NICE.

Too much of a good thing

14 Nov 2006
Niall Dickson
Niall Dickson argues that it is a 'foolish illusion' that we can completely take the politics out of running the NHS.

Jury still out on NHS independence

19 Oct 2006
Anna Dixon
Anna Dixon welcomes the debate around creating an independent NHS but says that an effective case has still to be made for full arm's-length governance.

Case finding for patients at risk of readmission to hospital: development of algorithm to identify high risk patients

12 Aug 2006
Jennifer Dixon, John Billings, Tod Mijanovich, David Wennberg
This paper describes the development of the Patients at Risk of Re-hospitalisation (PARR) tool and discusses the implications for policy makers and practitioners interested in implementing effective programmes to manage high-risk patients.

A glimpse of a demand-side revolution

9 Aug 2006
Richard Lewis
An article by Richard Lewis arguing that the focus of the NHS reform agenda is now switching to commissioning, offering the possibility of real change.

Committed to the market?

5 Jun 2006
Niall Dickson
The King's Fund Insight article by Niall Dixon, which says that the health service in England is undergoing far-reaching change on a scale not seen before.

Choice a right in England - but what about Scotland's patients?

3 Jun 2006
John Appleby
John Appleby asks whether Scotland will be allowing patients to choose where to have their first outpatient appointment and subsequent treatment.

Making the NHS cost effective

3 Jun 2006
Niall Dickson, Jennifer Dixon
Niall Dickson and Jennifer Dixon argue that the government needs to focus on improving health to avoid costly hospitalisation.

The mental health care question

1 Jun 2006
Simon Lawton-Smith
Psychiatric units are facing numerous problems. So how can things be improved, asks Simon Lawton-Smith, senior fellow in mental health at The King's Fund.

A bad case of pre-operative nerves

28 Apr 2006
Jim Buchan
They are better paid and more numerous than ever. No wonder health service staff are jittery - Jim Buchan looks at the the government's record of recruiting extra staff to the NHS, and the impact of new pay deals.

Let's not get stuck in the queue

25 Apr 2006
John Appleby
There is more to improving the NHS than cutting patient waiting times, argues John Appleby.

Spoilt for choice

14 Apr 2006
John Appleby
Patient choice sounds great in theory, but we have to take care to avoid rushing into an untried and uncertain solution to the problems of the NHS, warns John Appleby.

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