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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Public Health in the Balance

Getting it right for London
David Woodhead, Karen Jochelson, Ruth Tennant
What needs to be done to plan and organise a sustainable, effective public health function on the ground?
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A standards framework for delivering effective health and social care advocacy for black and minority ethnic Londoners

Rukshana Kapasi , Mike Silvera
This standards framework can be used by providers, commissioners and funders to achieve consistently high quality advocacy services.
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Every Voice Counts

Primary care organisations and public involvement
Will Anderson, Dominique Florin, Stephen Gillam, Lesley Mountford
Public involvement is at the heart of NHS modernisation, but putting it into practice is a challenge for many practitioners. This publication looks at the potential difficulties and offers solutions.
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The Future of the NHS

A framework for debate
Explores how the government can tackle the key issues of over-politicisation, over-centralisation, and lack of responsiveness in the NHS.
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Old Habits Die Hard

Tackling age discrimination in health and social care
Emilie Roberts, Janice Robinson, Linda Seymour
Identifies a lack of tools to help combat age discrimination in the health and social care sectors, and offers guidance on policies to help eradicate ageist practices from the NHS.
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Great to be Grey

Sandra Meadows
Explores how the NHS could reverse the growing number of experienced, skilled older workers taking early retirement, and argues that sustained commitment is needed to make older people feel valued.
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Managing the Pressure

Emergency hospital admissions in London 1997-2001
Michael Damiani, Jennifer Dixon
Examines how the NHS can tackle the problems of peaks in demand by analysing the nature of emergency admissions in London.
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NHS Walk-in Centres in London

Lesley Mountford, Rebecca Rosen
Assesses the success of London's nurse-led walk-in centres, where patients can access instant primary care.
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Nurse-led Primary Care

Learning from PMS pilots
Richard Lewis
Describes the experiences of nine nurse leads as they develop nurse-led personal medical services pilots.
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Mapping Local Rehabilitation and Intermediate Care Services

A whole-systems approach to understanding service capacity and planning change
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.
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Voices, Values and Health

Involving the public in moral decisions
Kristina Staley
Looks at public involvement in policy debates around health-related values via a study on attitudes in London.
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Community Safety and the NHS in London

Stakeholder views
David Woodhead
Looks at the issues facing stakeholders working on building healthy, safe communities, and asks what role the NHS can play in improving community safety.
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Contested Decisions

Priority Setting in the NHS
Chris Ham, Shirley McIver
Contested Decisions, by Chris Ham and Shirley McIver, offers ways for health professionals to reach difficult decisions about whether to fund individuals' drugs or treatments.
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The Last Straw

Explaining the NHS Nursing Shortage
Sandra Meadows, Ros Levenson
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.
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Age Discrimination in Health and Social Care

Emilie Roberts
Provides an overview of the prejudice that older people face when seeking and accessing treatment and social care in the United Kingdom.
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Improving Services for Older People

What are the issues for PCGs?
Emilie Roberts
This report provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging responsibilities of primary care groups (PCGs) in relation to the health of older people and carers.
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Getting Better With Evidence

Experiences of putting evidence into practice
Leslie Wye, John McClenahan
This paper analyses which approaches are most effective in putting clinical evidence into practice, and provides down-to-earth advice.
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Evidence and Public Health

Towards a common framework
Natasha Gowman, Anna Coote
The government wants to link its spending on public health initiatives to evidence of 'what works'. This publication discusses current approaches to establishing evidence, and offers a new framework.
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Intermediate Care

Models in practice
Barbara Vaughan, Judith Lathlean
This report looks at the ways in which seven different organisations provide intermediate care, each using a different model.
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Healthy Neighbourhoods

Natasha Gowman
What can public bodies and local communities do to make sure that neighbourhoods live up to their potential as healthy places to live?

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