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.

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Commissioning Care Services for Older People

Achievements and challenges in London
Penny Banks
This paper from The King's Fund outlines the factors helping or hindering the commissioning of care across London.
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Governing Foundation Trusts

A new era for public accountability
Richard Lewis
Our paper on governing foundation trusts looks at the early experiences of foundation trust governors and considers the role they play in health care.
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Palliative Care

Perspectives for dying people
Jenni Burt, Cathy Shipman, Julia Addington-Hall, Patrick White
Drawing on a two-year research project carried out by UCH, this publication examines palliative care provision in London, looking at how services vary between PCTs.
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An Independent Audit of the NHS under Labour (1997-2005)

The Labour Party came to power in 1997 promising to 'save' the NHS, but has it achieved its health service priorities? This audit seeks to answer that question.
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Trends in London's NHS Workforce

An updated analysis of key data
Ruth Hutt, James Buchan
London's NHS faces particular challenges in recruiting and retaining its workforce. How can it overcome these challenges, and what progress is being made?
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Managing for Health

What incentives exist for NHS managers to focus on wider health issues?
David Hunter , Linda Marks
This paper looks at how incentives in the health system could bring about a shift in focus, to encourage NHS managers to focus on wider public health issues.
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Cutting NHS Waiting Times

Identifying strategies for sustainable reductions
This paper from The King's Fund identifies policies and strategies for achieving and sustaining reductions in NHS waiting times at local levels.
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Sustaining Reductions in Waiting Times

Identifying successful strategies
John Appleby, Tony Harrison, Sean Boyle, Nancy Devlin, Mike Harley, Louise Locock, Ruth Thorlby
Brings together the conclusions of The King's Fund work for the Department of Health to identify strategies for achieving and sustaining reductions in NHS waiting times.
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Measuring NHS Success

Can patients' views on health outcomes help to manage performance?
John Appleby, Nancy Devlin
The NHS regularly measures and monitors aspects of its performance. If it started routinely measuring patients' health-related quality-of-life outcomes too, what would be the benefits?
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Building Bridges for Health

Exploring the potential for advocacy in London
Baljinder Heer
This report makes the case for supporting and developing health advocacy in London to promote health and tackle inequality and recommends ways forward..
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On Being a Doctor

Redefining medical professionalism for better patient care
Rebecca Rosen, Steve Dewar
The medical profession needs to respond to changing expectations of patients, the state, and the health service itself. This paper proposes a way to redefine medical professionalism for the future.
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Finding Out What Works

Building knowledge about complex, community-based initiatives
Anna Coote, Jessica Allen, David Woodhead
This report from The King's Fund examines how we construct and use evidence to assess the effectiveness of complex social interventions.
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Policy Framework for Integrated Care for Older People

Developed by the Carmen Network
Penny Banks
This paper provides a checklist for European national and regional policy-makers responsible for integrated care policy and the provision of care for older people.
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London Calling?

International recruitment of health workers to the capital
James Buchan, Renu Jobanputra, Pippa Gough
This research summary profiles London's international health care workforce for the first time, and examines the wider issues around the capital's heavy reliance on international health professionals.
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Enhancing the Healing Environment

A guide for NHS trusts
Sarah Waller CBE, Hedley Finn
This practical full-colour guide and accompanying CD Rom, published in partnership with NHS Estates, shows how staff teams with no specialist knowledge can make dramatic changes to areas such as waiting rooms by making better use of existing resources.
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Practice-led Commissioning

Harnessing the power of the primary care frontline
Richard Lewis
This paper aims to shape discussion about the benefits and risks of practice-led commissioning, in which primary care clinicians are involved in the commissioning process.
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Prevention Rather Than Cure

Making the case for choosing health
Anna Coote
Argues for a health system geared towards keeping people healthy, and asks what mechanisms and incentives are needed to put health at the heart of attitudes, policy and behaviour.
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Has the government met the Public's Priorities for the NHS?

A King's Fund briefing for the BBC 'Your NHS' day 2004
John Appleby, Steve Dewar, Pippa Gough, Janice Robinson
A briefing commissioned by the BBC to use as the basis for its 2004 'Your NHS' day. We look at progress in the top five areas of public concern for the NHS.
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The NHS Improvers

A study of the Commission for Health Improvement
Rudolf Klein, Patricia Day
A critical analysis of the Commission for Health Improvement. Can CHI's experience inform the future work of the newly formed CHAI?
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Managing Chronic Disease

What can we learn from the US experience?
Jennifer Dixon, Richard Lewis, Rebecca Rosen, Belinda Finlayson, Diane Gray
Explores how managed care organisations in the United States could support the development of models for the NHS to improve the way it manages chronic conditions.

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