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As part of Lord Darzi's review of the NHS, each strategic health authority (SHA) outside London was commissioned to produce a report outlining their 'vision' for care in their region in the next decade.
This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the impact and costs of new services as part of the Marie Curie Delivering Choice Programme, launched in 2004.
An evaluation of The King's Fund's Partners for Health in London funding and development programme
1 Feb 2008
Marsaili Cameron, Sheila Marsh, Kathryn Hinds, Steve Dewar
Funding the Practice of Learning is an evaluation of the Partners for Health programme, exploring the experiences of those who applied for funding from the point of application, through the recruitment process and into the programme itself
Bringing together the findings from the Caring Choices events and website, this report looks at possible solutions to the problem of funding long-term care.
In January 2006 the Department of Health published 'Our health, our care, our say: A new direction for community services'. This briefing outlines the main policies.
Aims to stimulate debate about developing cancer services in England, as demographic trends, new treatments, increasing survival rates and NHS reforms have altered the context in which they operate.
How much should be spent on social care for older people over the next 20 years, and what funding arrangements are needed? Our report sets out the findings of the Wanless Social Care Review.
We review patients' perceptions about managing their own long-term conditions, and identify how primary care trusts and other health and social care providers can best support them in line with their individual needs.
Ann Netten, Robin Darton, Vanessa Davey, Jeremy Kendall, Martin Knapp, Jacquetta Williams, Jose Luis Fernandez, Julien Forder
Does a mixed economy work in providing care to Londoners? This paper from The King's Fund recommends how policy and practice should develop in this area.
This paper provides a checklist for European national and regional policy-makers responsible for integrated care policy and the provision of care for older people.
Jennifer Dixon, Richard Lewis, Rebecca Rosen, Belinda Finlayson, Diane Gray
Explores how managed care organisations in the United States could support the development of models for the NHS to improve the way it manages chronic conditions.
A whole-systems approach to understanding service capacity and planning change
1 May 2001
Jan Stevenson
This paper argues that a whole-systems approach to strategic development and operational change is needed to develop a range of flexible intermediate care and rehabilitation services.
Argues that integrated improvements across all aspects of nurses' working lives are needed to boost low morale in nursing and improve recruitment and retention rates.
