Governance, regulation and accountability

Activities

• Service-line management: Can it improve quality and efficiency?

  Service-line management: Can it improve quality and efficiency? considers what helps and what hinders this way of working and the potential benefits of using this approach.

• Good governance for clinical commissioning groups: An introductory guide

  Written for the NAPC and KPMG, this introductory guide to good governance for clinical commissioning groups aims to help them take their first steps towards authorisation.

• Economic regulation in health care: What can we learn from other regulators?

  This paper takes a look at the lessons that can be learned from economic regulation in health care in other countries and from regulation of other market sectors in the UK. (3 Nov 2011)

• Anna Dixon: Monitor and the challenges of regulating the NHS

  In this interview, Dr Anna Dixon explains the role of Monitor and looks at this challenges it faces in regulating the NHS. (Audio, 3 Nov 2011)

• Board Leadership Programme: Supporting effective governance

  We talk to some non-executive directors on our Board Leadership Programme about ensuring effective governance during the NHS reforms. (Article, 30 Aug 2011)

• Reality lags behind the rhetoric of creating the ‘largest social enterprise sector in the world’

  Though early evidence suggests that health care providers have benefited from becoming social enterprises, they still face many challenges. (Press release, 4 Aug 2011)

• Changes to the Health and Social Care Bill: Accountability

  Do the reforms to the Health and Social Care Bill, set out by the Future Forum, help to make the NHS more accountable?

• Changes to the Health and Social Care Bill: Monitor and regulation

  Monitor's regulatory powers should be scaled back according to the Future Forum's recommendations for NHS reforms. What else did they suggest?

• Chris Ham: Response to the NHS Future Forum recommendations

  Chris Ham gives his initial response to the recommendations set out by the NHS Future Forum, including what the next steps will be and what was missing from the report. (Video, 13 Jun 2011)

• NHS Future Forum: Steve Field

  Steve Field announces the recommendations of the NHS Future Forum at a press event held at The King's Fund. (Video, 13 Jun 2011)

• Accountability in the NHS: Implications of the government's reform programme

  The government’s health reforms propose radical changes to the structures and processes within the National Health Service. One of the core issues is how providers and commissioners of care will be held to account in the future if many of the existing lines of accountability are removed, and there are deep concerns about whether the proposed substitutes are adequate for the task.(Publication, Jo Maybin, Rachael Addicott, Anna Dixon, John Storey, 1 Jun 2011)

• NHS reform mythbusters

  With the ‘listening exercise’ on the Health and Social Care Bill currently in full swing, we thought it would be useful to pick up – and debunk – some of the myths that have been generated in the debate so far. (Mythbusters, 19 May 2011)

• Shaping the future of the health and social care system

  The Fund will seek to inform and influence the debate about the coalition government's proposals for the reform of the health and social care system. (2011 Priority)

• Leadership in the NHS: Reflections of a Chief Medical Officer

  For the last in our series of lectures on leadership and management in the NHS, we heard from Professor Sir Liam Donaldson, Chief Medical Officer from 1998-2010. (Past event, 4 Apr 2011)

• Liberating the NHS: The right prescription in a cold climate

  Many of the changes set out in the government's White Paper have the potential to help to improve performance. However, there are significant risks in making these changes when financial pressures on the NHS are increasing. (Briefing, Anna Dixon, Chris Ham, 6 Oct 2010)

• Accounting for quality to the local community

  Providers of NHS services are now required to publish quality accounts – reports for the public on the quality of the services they provide. (Publication, Catherine Foot, Shilpa Ross, 14 Apr 2010)

• From Ward to Board

  In 2007 the Burdett Trust commissioned The King’s Fund to develop an intensive programme of work to support executive nurses and NHS boards to ‘bring the ward to the board’. The focus was firmly on reviewing clinical quality, and putting patients and how they experience health care at the heart of an organisation’s work. (Project)

• Operating framework 2008/9

  At the beginning of every financial year the Department of Health produces an ‘operating framework’, which provides a set of priorities and guidance for the NHS and is aimed at PCTs, strategic health authorities and NHS trusts. This briefing summarises the main points from both the operating framework and supporting documents and offers some analysis of their content. (Briefing, 22 Jan 2008)

• Operating framework 2007/8

  This briefing outlines the main points in the 2007/8 operating framework, provides some analysis of the content and discusses the implications of the accompanying documents. (Briefing, 8 Feb 2007)