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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.
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.
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
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.
Long-term conditions and mental health: The cost of co-morbidities publication cover

Long-term conditions and mental health

The cost of co-morbidities
9 Feb 2012
Chris Naylor, Amy Galea, Michael Parsonage, David McDaid, Martin Knapp, Matt Fossey
Our report, published jointly with Centre for Mental Health, reviews the evidence on the interaction between mental health and long-term physical health conditions and offers examples of innovative practice to combat the problems associated with co-existing conditions.
Integrated care for patients and populations publication cover

Integrated care for patients and populations: Improving outcomes by working together

A report to the Department of Health and the NHS Future Forum
5 Jan 2012
Nick Goodwin, Claire Perry, Anna Dixon, Chris Ham, Judith Smith, Alisha Davies, Rebecca Rosen, Jennifer Dixon
This 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.
Emergency bed use data briefing cover

Data briefing: Emergency bed use

What the numbers tell us
22 Dec 2011
James Thompson, Emmi Poteliakhoff
Our data briefing looks at the trends emerging in emergency admissions and hospital bed use in the NHS. What do the numbers tell us?
Implementing case management publication cover

Case management

What it is and how it can best be implemented
17 Nov 2011
Nick Goodwin, Shilpa Ross, Natasha Curry
This 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.
Issues facing commissioners of end-of-life care publication cover

Issues facing commissioners of end-of-life care

29 Sep 2011
Rachael Addicott, Jenny Hiley
This paper, authored by Rachael Addicott and Jenny Hiley, highlights the current barriers to commissioning personalised, integrated services for end of life.
Social care and clinical commissioning for people with long-term conditions | by Richard Humphries, Lisa Bostock

Social care and clinical commissioning for people with long-term conditions

22 Sep 2011
Richard Humphries, Lisa Bostock
Written by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) in conjunction with The King's Fund, this short briefing asks how can clinical commissioners secure best use of social care to maximise outcomes and improve patient experience, while ensuring efficient, affordable care into the future?
Publication:  SCIE
Front cover of the Integrated care summary: What is it? Does it work? What does it mena for the NHS?

Integrated care summary: What is it? Does it work? What does it mean for the NHS?

22 Sep 2011
Chris Ham
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.
Can competition and integration co-exist in a reformed NHS? publication cover

Can competition and integration co-exist in a reformed NHS?

12 Jul 2011
Loraine Hawkins
The NHS system needs to develop and integrate to respond to the growing burden of chronic illness. This paper addresses the fundamental question of whether competition and integration can co-exist in the NHS and considers the role that different bodies, especially the NHS Commissioning Board and Monitor, will play.
Routes for social and health care publication cover

Routes for social and health care

A simulation exercise
20 Jun 2011
Richard Humphries, Sarah Harvey, Laurie McMahon
How can the health and social care system rise to the current political and financial challenges? This paper is based on the Routes project, a simulation exercise created by Loop2, which set up a number of routes to managing change.
Front cover of where next for the NHS reforms?

Where next for the NHS reforms? The case for integrated care

23 May 2011
Chris Ham, Candace Imison, Nick Goodwin, Anna Dixon, Patrick South
Written as a contribution to the government's current listening exercise, this paper sets out the challenges facing the NHS and identifies the reforms we believe are needed to meet these challenges.
Integrating health and social care in Torbay publication cover

Integrating health and social care in Torbay

Improving care for Mrs Smith
31 Mar 2011
Peter Thistlethwaite
This paper sets out how one particular area, Torbay, created an integrated care system that aimed to improve care for 'Mrs Smith', a fictitious user of health and social care services.
Integrating health and social care publication cover

Integrating health and social care

Where next?
31 Mar 2011
Richard Humphries, Natasha Curry
In the autumn of 2010, The King's Fund held two seminars, bringing together senior policy experts and NHS and social care leaders to discuss the barriers and aids to integration at national and local levels and the financial challenges facing all services. This paper draws on the discussions that took place at both seminars.
Mental health and the productivity challenge publication cover

Mental health and the productivity challenge

Improving quality and value for money
2 Dec 2010
Chris Naylor, Andy Bell
The King's Fund worked with Centre for Mental Health, Royal College of Psychiatrists and NHS Confederation's Mental Health Network to explore how mental health services could be delivered in a different and more cost-effective way.
Clinical and service integration publication cover

Clinical and service integration

The route to improved outcomes
22 Nov 2010
Chris Ham, Natasha Curry
Our report on clinical and service integration focuses on examples that are most relevant to the NHS in England in the context of the coalition’s health reforms.
Implementing the end of life care strategy publication cover

Implementing the End of Life Care Strategy

Lessons from good practice
28 Oct 2010
Shilpa Ross, Rachael Addicott
This report from The King's Fund is aimed at those responsible for commissioning and organising end-of-life care services at a local level.
Delivering better care at end of life publication cover

Delivering better care at end of life

The next steps
27 Jan 2010
Beccy Ashton, Rachael Addicott
The next stage of our Choice at the End of Life programme, this report comments on issues raised at a summit on delivering high-quality, end-of-life care.

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