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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.
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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.
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Understanding New Labour's market reforms of the English NHS

13 Sep 2011
Anna Dixon, Nicholas Mays, Lorelei Jones
Understanding New Labour's Market Reforms of the English NHS, a new book from The King's Fund, asks what lessons can be learned for current and future reforms?
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Briefing: Reconfiguring hospital services

6 Sep 2011
Candace Imison
The King's Fund's briefing on reconfiguration calls for radical changes to streamline the process for reorganising hospital services and to prevent politicians from blocking essential changes that would improve the quality and safety of NHS care.
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Making shared decision-making a reality

No decision about me, without me
28 Jul 2011
Angela Coulter, Alf Collins
The government wants to place patients' needs and wishes at the heart of clinical decision-making. Angela Coulter and Alf Collins give evidence for the benefits of shared decision-making and practical support in implementing it for clinicians.
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How is the NHS performing? July 2011

Quarterly monitoring report
15 Jul 2011
John Appleby, Emmi Poteliakhoff
In the second of our quarterly monitoring reports, John Appleby and Emmi Poteliakhoff examine the current state of the NHS.
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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.
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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.
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The voluntary and community sector in health

Implications of the proposed NHS reforms
16 Jun 2011
Claire Mundle, Lisa Weaks, Natasha Curry, Fiona Sheil
What role will the voluntary and community sector play in health and social care if the government's proposed reforms go ahead? This report discusses the opportunities for the sector, but also addresses the risks it may face.
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Accountability in the NHS

Implications of the government's reform programme
1 Jun 2011
Jo Maybin, Anna Dixon, Rachael Addicott, John Storey
The government's health reforms propose radical changes to the running of the NHS, including, how will providers and commissioners be held to account in the future?
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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.
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The future of leadership and management in the NHS

No more heroes
18 May 2011
What sort of leaders does the NHS need? Des the 'hero' chief executive still hold sway? This report concludes the findings of the Commission into leadership and management in the NHS.
Front cover of Transforming our health care system: ten priorities for commissioners

Transforming our health care system: Ten priorities for commissioners

12 May 2011
Candace Imison, Chris Naylor, Nick Goodwin, David Buck, Natasha Curry, Rachael Addicott, Paul Zollinger-Read
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.
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How is the NHS performing? April 2011

Quarterly monitoring report
20 Apr 2011
John Appleby, Emmi Poteliakhoff
This monitoring report is the first of a regular quarterly review, which will combine publicly available data on selected NHS performance measures with views from a panel of finance directors on the key issues their organisations are facing.
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Commissioning for the future

Learning from a simulation of the health system in 2013/14
7 Apr 2011
Candace Imison, Natasha Curry, Martin McShane
What outcomes could current health and social care reforms have on the future of the health system? This simulation exercise exposed GPs to the situations they might face in 2013/14.
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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.
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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.
Social care funding and the NHS: An impending crisis? publication cover

Social care funding and the NHS

An impending crisis?
17 Mar 2011
Richard Humphries
Social care funding has increased in real terms for the past decade, but this paper examines the trends in spending and the potential funding gap of £1billion by 2014 unless councils can achieve unprecedented efficiency savings.
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Reconfiguring hospital services

Lessons from South East London
3 Mar 2011
Keith Palmer
Reconfiguring hospital services offers a timely and sobering contribution to the emerging debate on how service and organisational change should be taken forward across the NHS in England.
Avoiding hospital admissions: What does the research evidence say? publication cover

Avoiding hospital admissions

What does the research evidence say?
16 Dec 2010
Sarah Purdy
In order to successfully reduce avoidable emergency admissions, we need to fully understand which interventions are the most effective. The King's Fund commissioned this review of research evidence to establish which interventions work in avoiding emergency or unplanned hospital admissions.

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