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.

UNder one roof: Will polyclinics deliver integrated care? publication cover

Under One Roof

Will polyclinics deliver integrated care?
This report asks whether the polyclinic model will improve the quality and accessibility of health care and deliver cost savings and integrated care.
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Paying the Price

The cost of mental health care in England to 2026
Paul McCrone, Sujith Dhanasiri, Anita Patel, Martin Knapp, Simon Lawton-Smith
This report suggests that without the right level and type of investment into mental health care we will all pay the price – not just in wasted resources but also in wasted lives.
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Understanding Doctors

Harnessing professionalism
Ros Levenson, Steve Dewar, Susan Shepherd
Presents the views of doctors and other health professionals on the many challenges to their roles, the way they practise and the nature of their professionalism.
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Background to the NHS Next Stage Review

This briefing provides the background of the review and asks what the final report might recommend.
Improving Environments for Care at End of Life: Lessons from eight UK pilot programmes front cover

Improving Environments for Care at End of Life

Lessons from eight UK pilot programmes
Sarah Waller CBE, Steve Dewar, Abigail Masterson, Hedley Finn
We share the lessons from a pilot programme launched in 2006 to improve environments for care at end of life, with experiences from eight pilot sites.
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Improving Choice at End of Life

Rachael Addicott, Steve Dewar
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.
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Should Primary Care Trusts be Made More Locally Accountable?

A discussion paper from The King's Fund
Ruth Thorlby, Richard Lewis, Jennifer Dixon
This discussion paper discusses a range of options for reforming the relationships between PCTs and their public.
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Free choice at the point of referral

Sarah Gregory, Ruth Thorlby
Free choice, allowing patients to choose a hospital anywhere in England, begins in April 2008. This briefing summarises the most recent data on choice of referral.
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Regulating Complementary Medical Practitioners

An international review
This report examines the experiences of 16 countries in regards to complementary medical practices.
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Safe Births: Everybody's business

An independent inquiry into the safety of maternity services in England
Onora O'Neill
This report presents the findings of an independent inquiry into the safety of maternity services in England, offering recommendations for change.
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Funding the practice of learning

An evaluation of The King's Fund's Partners for Health in London funding and development programme
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
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Briefing: Patient choice

Ruth Robertson, Ruth Thorlby
Patient choice has been a major theme of the Labour government's public sector modernisation programme. This briefing looks at the development of reforms to give patients a choice of provider for their planned hospital care.
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Operating framework 2008/9

Ruth Thorlby
In this briefing we analyse the 2008/9 Operating Framework, created by the Department of Health as a set of priorities and guidance for running the NHS.
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Governing the NHS

Alternatives to an independent board
Anna Dixon, Arturo Alvarez-Rosete
Would an independent NHS board reduce micromanagement and day-to-day political interference in the running of the health service? This paper suggests limitations to this option and proposes several alternatives.
The future of care funding publication paper

The Future of Care Funding

Time for a change
Caring Choices coalition
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.
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Practice-based commissioning briefing

Natasha Curry, Ruth Thorlby
This briefing explores some of the questions and issues relating to practice-based commissioning in England, examines the pace of implementation and offers some analysis of the impact – current and future – on NHS services.
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The reconfiguration of hospital services in England

This briefing examines the recent debate over hospital configuration in England; describes what changes are currently being proposed together with the main factors driving these changes; and sets out the process by which services can be reconfigured.
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Improving Chronic Disease Management

An Anglo-American exchange
Anna Dixon, Rebecca Rosen, Perviz Asaria
The King's Fund and Commonwealth Fund sponsored a seminar bringing together leading policymakers, clinicians and academics from England and the USA to share experiences.
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Payment by Results

This briefing explains how Payment by Results (PbR) works, examines the evidence on whether the system has achieved, or is likely to achieve, the policy aims set for it, and describes the government's current proposals for the future of PbR.
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Our Future Health Secured?

A review of NHS funding and performance
John Appleby, Tony Harrison, Sir Derek Wanless, Darshan Patel
Since the Wanless review of 2002, Securing our Future Health, NHS spending has increased by nearly 50 per cent. Our report looks at where that money has been spent, what it has achieved and whether government policy has promoted effective use of resources.

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