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How is the NHS performing? Quarterly monitoring report July 2011 cover

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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Schwartz Center Rounds®

Evaluation of the UK pilots
11 Jul 2011
Joanna Goodrich
This paper on the Schwartz Center Rounds® draws together three types of evaluation: the feedback from participants after each Round; a pre- and post-pilot survey (first year of Rounds) completed by Rounds participants; and qualitative interviews with key members of staff in both trusts.
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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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Explaining variations in primary care trusts' spending on cancer services

10 Jun 2011
John Appleby, Tony Harrison, Catherine Foot, Alex Smith, Stuart Gilmour
Explaining variations in primary care trusts' spending on cancer services provides PCTs and cancer networks with a method of deciding on appropriate budgets for cancer services.
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How to improve cancer survival

Explaining England's relatively poor rates
9 Jun 2011
Catherine Foot, Tony Harrison
The government has committed to improving cancer survival rates in England. This paper considers international survival rates to see how this could be achieved.
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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.
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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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Impact of Quality and Outcomes Framework on health inequalities

Summary of full report
21 Apr 2011
Anna Dixon, Artak Khachatryan, Andrew Wallace, Stephen Peckham, Tammy Boyce, Stephen Gillam
The National Institute for Health Research Service Delivery and Organisation programme commissioned The King's Fund, together with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, to explore the impact of the QOF on public health and health inequalities.
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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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Variations in health care

The good, the bad and the inexplicable
14 Apr 2011
John Appleby, Veena Raleigh, Francesca Frosini, Gwyn Bevan, Haiyan Gao, Tom Lyscom
Variations in health care: The good, the bad and the inexplicable explores the possible causes of variation, shows the different ways in which variations can be measured, and analyses variations by PCT in rates of elective hospital admissions for selected procedures.
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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.
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Improving the quality of care in general practice

Report of an independent inquiry commissioned by The King's Fund
24 Mar 2011
This report, conducted by an independent panel of experts, aims to support the work of general practice and to provide a guide to ensure that quality is at the heart of the service.
Quality of general practice: Key findings for GPs from an independent inquiry front cover

Quality of general practice: key findings for GPs from an independent inquiry

23 Mar 2011
We outline the key findings for professionals in general practice and describe the central role that general practice must now play to improve the quality of health care.
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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