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How is the health and social care system performing? February 2013 quarterly monitoring report

How is the health and social care system performing? February 2013

Quarterly monitoring report
14 Feb 2013
John Appleby, Richard Humphries, James Thompson, Amy Galea
This quarter's monitoring report finds that, while most NHS organisations are on track to meet financial targets, it is clear that pressures are growing towards the end of the second year of the so-called Nicholson Challenge.
Front cover of Spending on health and social care over the next 50 years: why think long term? report

Spending on health and social care over the next 50 years

Why think long term?
31 Jan 2013
John Appleby
This report considers the drivers of spending on health and long-term care, and asks whether spending must or should consume such large proportions of GDP in the future, and the fiscal feasibility of this.
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
28 Nov 2012
Sarah Gregory, Anna Dixon, Chris Ham
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.
Payment by Results front cover

Payment by Results

How can payment systems help to deliver better care?
2 Nov 2012
John Appleby, Tony Harrison, Loraine Hawkins, Anna Dixon
Our report reviews the role and objectives of payment systems in the English NHS, focusing on Payment by Results (PbR).
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
26 Sep 2012
John Appleby, James Thompson, Amy Galea
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.
Dealing with financially unsustainably providers front cover

Dealing with financially unsustainable providers: how will the failure regime work?

19 Sep 2012
Tony Harrison, Anna Dixon
This paper explains why a failure regime is required in the NHS, outlines how the failure regime for NHS trusts (currently being applied in South London) works and how the failure regime for foundation trusts introduced by the Health and Social Care Act 2012 will work in future.
Transforming the delivery of health and social care - The case for fundamental change | by Chris Ham, Anna Dixon, Beatrice Brooke

Transforming the delivery of health and social care

The case for fundamental change
6 Sep 2012
Chris Ham, Anna Dixon, Beatrice Brooke
This paper explores how the current health and social care delivery system has failed to keep pace with the population's needs and expectations.
How is the NHS performing? Quarterly Monitoring report front cover for May 2012

How is the NHS performing? May 2012

Quarterly monitoring report
31 May 2012
John Appleby, James Thompson, Amy Galea
The May 2012 monitoring report looks back at how the NHS performed during the first year of the spending squeeze.
Thinking about rationing publication front cover

Thinking about rationing

3 May 2012
Jo Maybin, Rudolf Klein
Our discussion paper looks at the practicalities and controversies surrounding rationing of resources, and identifies what is known about how it works in practice.
Front cover of Sustainable health and social care: connecting environmental and financial performance

Sustainable health and social care

Connecting environmental and financial performance
22 Mar 2012
Chris Naylor, John Appleby
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
28 Jan 2012
John Appleby, James Thompson, Amy Galea
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.
Improving health and health care in London publication cover

Improving health and health care in London

Who will take the lead?
13 Dec 2011
John Appleby, Chris Ham, Candace Imison, Tony Harrison, Beccy Ashton, James Thompson, Sean Boyle
This report highlights the particular challenges that health care organisations in London face and suggests ways to facilitate appropriate service change.
How is the NHS performing? Quarterly monitoring report October 2011 cover

How is the NHS performing? October 2011

Quarterly monitoring report
14 Oct 2011
John Appleby, James Thompson, Amy Galea
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.
Understanding New Labour's market reforms of the English NHS book cover

Understanding New Labour's market reforms of the English NHS

13 Sep 2011
Anna Dixon, Nicholas Mays, Lorelei Jones
Understanding New Labour's Market Reforms of the English NHS, a new book from The King's Fund, asks what lessons can be learned for current and future reforms?
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.
Exploring variations in primary care trusts' spending on cancer services front cover

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

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.
Variations in health care publication cover

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.
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.
Avoiding hospital admissions: What does the research evidence say? publication cover

Avoiding hospital admissions

What does the research evidence say?
16 Dec 2010
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.

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