Long-term conditions

Activities

• Long-term conditions and mental health: the cost of co-morbidities | Chris Naylor

  Our latest report, published jointly with Centre for Mental Health, reviews the evidence on the interaction between mental health and long-term physical health conditions.

• Long-term conditions and mental health paper press release | February 2012

  Our new paper finds that people with long-term conditions are two to three times more likely to experience mental health problems than the general population.

• Co-ordinated care for people with complex chronic conditions

  This project involves an in-depth examination of approaches to care co-ordination undertaken in primary care settings in different parts of the UK.

• Nick Goodwin on case management

  Nick Goodwin introduces the key findings from our case management paper, and considers its role in an integrated care system. (Audio-slideshow)

• Case management: What it is and how it can best be implemented

  This paper looks at the core components of a successful case management programme and considers how it can be used to deliver high-quality integrated care.

• Social care and clinical commissioning for people with long-term conditions

  Written by SCIE, in conjunction with The King's Fund, this paper looks at social care and clinical commissioning for people with long-term conditions.

• Mental health and long-term conditions: the cost of co-morbidity

  We are reviewing the impact of people with both mental health and long-term conditions on the quality and cost of care and how they could be better supported. (Project)

• Graham Worsley: Thoughts on the DALLAS programme

  Graham Worsley of the Technology Strategy Board describes what success for the telehealth programme DALLAS would look like. (Video, 24 Jun 2011)

• Stephen Johnson: Lessons from the Whole Systems Demonstrator

  Stephen Johnson discusses the lessons learnt from the telehealth-related Whole Systems Demonstrator programme. (Video, 24 Jun 2011)

• Stephen Johnson: Engaging health and social care professionals in new technlogies

  Stephen Johnson, Head of Long-term Conditions, Department of Health, spoke about the Whole Systems Demonstrator at our event on telehealth and telecare. (Video, 24 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)

• Explaining variations in primary care trusts' spending on cancer services

  Given the wide and persistent variation in spending on cancer services, this project aimed to identify and quantify sources of variation in primary care trust (PCT) cancer spending and provide PCTs and cancer networks with a systematic way of framing decisions about the appropriate share of their total budgets to spend on cancer services. (Publication, John Appleby et al, 10 Jun 2011)

• Improving and integrating care for people with long-term conditions

  The King's Fund will be working with policy-makers, providers, commissioners and user groups to examine the barriers and incentives to delivering better co-ordinated and integrated health care. (2011 Priority)

• Mental health and the productivity challenge: Improving quality and value for money

  The King’s Fund and Centre for Mental Health, with the support of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the NHS Confederation’s Mental Health Network, have worked together to explore how mental health services could be delivered in a different and more cost-effective way. (Publication, Chris Naylor, Andy Bell, 2 Dec 2010)

• Mental health and the productivity challenge

  This project will explore opportunities to re-design mental health services in order to improve productivity without sacrificing quality of care. (Project)

• The King's Fund Annual Conference 2010: Improving health care in tough times

  This year The King's Fund Annual Conference explored opportunities for ways of funding, organising and delivering care that cross professional and organisational boundaries. (Past event, Nov 2010)

• HALE

  HALE, 2010 GSK IMPACT Awards winners

• A high-performing NHS?

  Since 1997 funding for the NHS has doubled in real terms, but has this produced a high-performing NHS? Using official data, government reports and academic research, ‘A high-performing NHS?’ is the first comprehensive evaluation of the NHS in England from 1997 to 2010. (Publication, Ruth Thorlby, Jo Maybin, 11 April 2010)

• Whole Systems Demonstrator Action Research Network

  The Whole Systems Demonstrator Action Research Network (WSDAN) combines research and learning opportunities to examine the use of telecare and telehealth in enabling and improving the management of long-term conditions. (Project)

• Unique – Rare Chromosome Disorder Support Group

  Unique – Rare Chromosome Disorder Support Group, 2009 GSK IMPACT Awards winners.