The King's FundIdeas that change health care

Home»Publications»

Articles

Bringing you the latest independent views on health and social care from The King's Fund, all of our reports and findings from our projects are available to buy or download.

To order printed copies of our publications, please purchase online or contact publications@kingsfund.org.uk or 020 7307 2568.

Other resources

Big Society: Political philosophy and implications for health policy

26 Oct 2010
Beccy Ashton
An overview of the Big Society and what it means for health care in England, this briefing raises a number of questions and issues, including nudging to improve public health, community empowerment and patient power.

Impact of the health White Paper: what do doctors think?

25 Oct 2010
The King's Fund and Doctors.net.uk have commissioned a survey to find out how doctors feel about the plans set out in the coalition government's health White Paper.

The Spending Review and Social Care

21 Oct 2010
Richard Humphries
For adult social care, the Spending Review settlement is about as good as it could get. It promises allocates £2 billion a year of additional funding by 2014-15 to support social care, £1b of which sits within the NHS.

Sacking staff is not the way to save money in the NHS

18 Oct 2010
John Appleby
Slashing budgets and sacking staff should not be the answer to the financial challenges facing the NHS. Instead, the aim should be to generate savings to reinvest in more and higher-quality care for patients.

Liberating the NHS: The right prescription in a cold climate?

6 Oct 2010
Anna Dixon, Chris Ham
Many of the changes set out in the government's White Paper have the potential to help to improve performance. However, there are significant risks in making these changes when financial pressures on the NHS are increasing.

Place-based approaches and the NHS: lessons from Total Place

1 Oct 2010
Richard Humphries, Sarah Gregory
This report captures the content of a conference held by The King's Fund to assess the involvement of the NHS in the Total Place programme.

How older people with long-term conditions perceive and use telecare, telehealth and telemedicine

22 Sep 2010
Susan Royer
This article focuses on evidence about older people’s perceptions and use of telecare, telehealth and telemedicine interventions.

How to deliver high-quality, patient-centred, cost-effective care

16 Sep 2010
This article is the collective effort of ten of the leading health and social care organisations in the voluntary sector to identify the five key themes that the health and social care system must embrace to be sustainable and to ensure quality.

Why the plans to reform the NHS may never be implemented

15 Sep 2010
Chris Ham
Irrespective of Unison’s request for a review of the government's NHS reform plans, ministers will have to fight on several fronts to implement the health White Paper.

How might older people and disabled people be using assisted living services in 2030?

20 Aug 2010
Shilpa Ross
A recent study commissioned by Ofcom examined the long-term requirements of key sectors for communication services in the United Kingdom.

The evidence base: the management of hypertension

20 Aug 2010
Susan Royer
In July 2010, WSDAN News reported on the publication of the results of a recent UK randomised control trial on telemonitoring and self-management in the control of hypertension

Should NHS funding be ring fenced?

18 Aug 2010
John Appleby

If there's one thing economists agree on it is the fact that the hole in the public finances – currently around £86bn, nearly 6 per cent of the United Kingdom’s gross domestic product – needs to be filled.

For deficit deniers, the reason this needs to be dealt with is that left unchecked the hole will get bigger and the consequences of that would be catastrophic for the UK economy.

Radical rethink required on care

11 Aug 2010
John Appleby
Rising demand, increasing costs and a desire to improve quality mean the NHS has to find increases in productivity on a scale that dwarf past achievements. This means a radical rethink about more cost effective methods are essential.

Patient mobility in the European Union

29 Jun 2010
Jo Maybin, Sarah Harvey
A summary of the current legal situation and the contents of the draft European Union (EU) Directive.

GP-led commissioning: quality is key

23 Jun 2010
Nick Goodwin
The flagship policy of GP-led commissioning will transfer real budgets to groups of practices and signals political support for change towards the creation of larger GP-led clinical collectives with more direct accountability.

NHS needs waiting-time targets

22 Jun 2010
John Appleby
'Targets and terror' worked, and without them questions remain over whether the NHS can guarantee acceptable waiting times.

Supporting staff to deliver compassionate care using Schwartz Center Rounds - a UK pilot

18 Jun 2010
Jocelyn Cornwell, Joanna Goodrich
Staff who feel supported deliver better care. This article explores how a US system, which encourages sharing of experiences, is being piloted in the UK.

Hospital size isn't everything

16 Jun 2010
John Appleby
The link between death rates and the number of operations carried out by a hospital is not a straightforward one.

The experience of implementing choice at point of referral: a comparison of the Netherlands and England

24 May 2010
Anna Dixon, Ruth Robertson, Roland Bal
This paper compares the implementation of electronic referral systems in England ('Choose and Book') and in a region of the Netherlands ('ZorgDomein').

Helping patients choose: how to improve the design of comparative scorecards of hospital quality

18 May 2010
Anna Dixon, Tammy Boyce, Barbara Fasolo, Elena Reutskaja
In this article, we investigate how the public understand comparative quality information as presented on NHS Choices.

Pages