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.

General practice in London front cover

General practice in London: supporting improvements in quality

Veena Raleigh, Yang Tian, Nick Goodwin, Anna Dixon, James Thompson, Christopher Millet, Michael Soljak
An independent report giving fresh analysis of the challenges faced by general practice in London, and the improvements that will be needed to address them.
Health policy under the coalition government - A mid-term assessment | by Sarah Gregory, Anna Dixon, Chris Ham

Health policy under the coalition government

A mid-term assessment
Written halfway through the 2010–2014 parliament, this review considers how the NHS is performing under the coalition government, following on from The King’s Fund’s major review of NHS performance from 1997 to 2010.
How is the NHS performing? September 2012 - Quarterly monitoring report | by John Appleby, James Thompson, Amy Galea

How is the NHS performing? September 2012

Quarterly monitoring report
This quarter's report finds that NHS performance is holding up well, but there is concern that quality of care may suffer as financial pressures bite from next year.
Front cover of Older people and emergency bed use

Older people and emergency bed use

Exploring variation
Candace Imison, James Thompson, Emmi Poteliakhoff
This paper explores factors that might be driving the significant variation in use of hospital beds by patients over 65 admitted as an emergency.
How is the NHS performing? Quarterly Monitoring report front cover for May 2012

How is the NHS performing? May 2012

Quarterly monitoring report
The May 2012 monitoring report looks back at how the NHS performed during the first year of the spending squeeze.
Front cover of Sustainable health and social care: connecting environmental and financial performance

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.
How is the NHS performing? Quarterly monitoring report Janaury 2012 cover

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.
Service-line management publication cover

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.
How is the NHS performing? Quarterly monitoring report October 2011 cover

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

How is the NHS performing? July 2011

Quarterly monitoring report
John Appleby, Emmi Poteliakhoff
In the second of our quarterly monitoring reports, John Appleby and Emmi Poteliakhoff examine the current state of the NHS.
Exploring variations in primary care trusts' spending on cancer services front cover

Explaining variations in primary care trusts' spending on cancer services

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.
How to improve cancer survival publication cover

How to improve cancer survival

Explaining England's relatively poor rates
The government has committed to improving cancer survival rates in England. This paper considers international survival rates to see how this could be achieved.
How is the NHS performing? Quarterly monitoring report April 2011 cover

How is the NHS performing? April 2011

Quarterly monitoring report
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.
Variations in health care publication cover

Variations in health care

The good, the bad and the inexplicable
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.
Improving the quality of care in general practice publication cover

Improving the quality of care in general practice

Report of an independent inquiry commissioned by The King's Fund
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.
How do quality accounts measure up? Findings from the first year publication cover

How do quality accounts measure up?

Findings from the first year
This paper includes examples from 2009/10 quality accounts that show how the content and the presentation of information can vary. Based on these examples, we make recommendations for providers when they are developing and writing a quality account.
Avoiding hospital admissions: What does the research evidence say? publication cover

Avoiding hospital admissions

What does the research evidence say?
Sarah Purdy
In order to successfully reduce avoidable emergency admissions, we need to fully understand which interventions are the most effective. The King's Fund commissioned this review of research evidence to establish which interventions work in avoiding emergency or unplanned hospital admissions.
The quality of care in general practice publication cover

The quality of care in general practice

Capturing opinions from the front line
This paper offers a snapshot of health professionals' views and raises key issues for further debate, as part of our work on the quality of general practice in England.
Improving NHS productivity: More with the same not more of the same publication cover

Improving NHS productivity

More with the same not more of the same
Building on a previous analysis produced in association with the Institute for Fiscal Studies, this paper examines the gap between the likely available funding and the level of funding required to achieve the progress projected by Sir Derek Wanless in his 2002 report for the Treasury.
Accounting for quality to the local community publication cover

Accounting for quality to the local community

Findings from focus group research
This paper argues that providers should look at quality accounts as a year-round process and should seek input from their local community from the outset.

Pages