Publications

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.

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Patients’ preferences matter

Stop the silent misdiagnosis
Al Mulley, Chris Trimble, Glyn Elwyn
Our paper calls for doctors to aspire to the same standards of excellence in diagnosing patients' preferences for their care as they do to diagnosing disease.
Final report from the 2012 NHS leadership and management review

Leadership and engagement for improvement in the NHS

Together we can
Leadership and engagement for improvement in the NHS: together we can makes the case for engaging staff, patients and boards, and for building relationships across systems of care.
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Thinking about rationing

Our discussion paper looks at the practicalities and controversies surrounding rationing of resources, and identifies what is known about how it works in practice.
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Health and wellbeing boards

System leaders or talking shops?
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.
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Data briefing: Emergency hospital admissions for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions

Identifying the potential for reductions
Yang Tian, Anna Dixon, Haiyan Gao
Our data briefing looks at patterns of admissions for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions and assesses how emergency admissions could be reduced.
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Improving safety in maternity services

A toolkit for teams
The tips and tools in this resource will help maternity teams to implement changes that will deliver benefits to women and families.
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Continuity of care for older hospital patients

A call for action
Jocelyn Cornwell, Lara Sonola, Ros Levenson, Emmi Poteliakhoff
This paper focuses on those aged 70 years and older with multiple health problems and explores how continuity of care affects them and the people closest to them.
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The care of frail older people with complex needs: time for a revolution

The Sir Roger Bannister Health Summit, Leeds Castle
This paper summarises discussions from the Sir Roger Bannister Health Summit, held at Leeds Castle, which looked at the challenges of caring for frail older people.
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Sustainable health and social care

Connecting environmental and financial performance
Our sustainable health and social care paper considers the environmental impact of the NHS, and looks at ways to change health and social care processes to become more environmentally sustainable.
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Long-term conditions and mental health

The cost of co-morbidities
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.
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How is the NHS performing? January 2012

Quarterly monitoring report
This is the fourth quarterly monitoring report produced by the Fund as we aim to provide a regular update on how the NHS is coping as it grapples with the evolving reform agenda as well as the more significant challenge of making radical improvements in productivity.
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Service-line management

Can it improve quality and efficiency?
How successfully are trusts implementing service-line management? This paper considers what helps and what hinders this way of working and the potential benefits of using this approach.
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Integrated care for patients and populations: Improving outcomes by working together

A report to the Department of Health and the NHS Future Forum
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.
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Data briefing: Emergency bed use

What the numbers tell us
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?
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Improving health and health care in London

Who will take the lead?
This report highlights the particular challenges that health care organisations in London face and suggests ways to facilitate appropriate service change.
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Good governance for clinical commissioning groups: an introductory guide

Written for the NAPC and KPMG, this introductory guide to good governance for clinical commissioning groups aims to help them take their first steps towards authorisation.
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Case management

What it is and how it can best be implemented
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.
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Economic regulation in health care

What can we learn from other regulators?
With the government looking to extend Monitor's powers to act as a regulator for the health care sector, this paper looks at the lessons that can be learned from economic regulation in health care in other countries and from regulation of other market sectors in the UK.
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How is the NHS performing? October 2011

Quarterly monitoring report
Our third quarterly monitoring report provides a regular update on how the NHS is coping as it grapples with the evolving reform agenda as well as the more significant challenge of making radical improvements in productivity.
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Issues facing commissioners of end-of-life care

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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