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Following Royal Assent, the Health and Social Care Bill is now the Health and Social Care Act. What will this mean for the NHS? Read our commentary and analysis on the latest NHS reforms.

Overview

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Quarterly monitoring report

Our quarterly monitoring report examines the views of finance directors on the productivity challenges they face, as well as some key NHS performance data.

Public satisfaction with the NHS and its services

Topline results and satisfaction trends relating to the NHS from the British Social Attitudes survey 2011.
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Health and Social Care Act timeline

Health and Social Care Act prezi
See the key moments that led to the Act reaching the statute book.

NHS reform Reading Room

Want to know more about NHS reform?

For more resources on NHS reforms, including reading lists, database searches and useful web pages, visit our Reading Room.

Related articles

Read articles on NHS reform from our health and social care policy experts.

Relevant publications

Health policy under the coalition government A mid-term assessment

28 Nov 2012
Sarah Gregory, Anna Dixon, Chris Ham

Improving GP services in England Exploring the association between quality of care and the experience of patients

7 Nov 2012
Veena Raleigh, Francesca Frosini
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Blogs on NHS reform

A guide to the NHS Commissioning Board’s Everyone Counts

8 Jan 2013
Anna Dixon

What are the prospects for health and social care in 2013?

3 Jan 2013
Richard Humphries
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Relevant events

The King's Fund Annual Conference 2012

The foundation trust non-executive role Meeting the challenges

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From White Paper to Act

Health and Social Care Bill

Catch up with our commentary and analysis of the Bill as it progressed through parliament.

NHS White Paper

See our involvement in the Act's first stages as the NHS White Paper.

General Election 2010

Catch up with our commentary on health issues during the General Election.

Relevant audio/video

Slideshow

Mike Richards: improving outcomes in the NHS

Mike Richards
Video

Jeremy Hunt: making quality of care as important as quality of treatment

Jeremy Hunt
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Useful links

Read the Health and Social Care Act

See our consultation responses and briefings

Find out about our leadership programmes that will help you deal with the reforms

Our work on this topic

Article
Time to integrate words with action
5 Jan 2012
Chris Ham , Jennifer Dixon
Multimedia: Video
Nick Goodwin and Judith Smith on integrated care
5 Jan 2012
Nick Goodwin , Judith Smith
Publication
Integrated care for patients and populations: Improving outcomes by working together
5 Jan 2012
Nick Goodwin, Claire Perry, Anna Dixon, Chris Ham , Judith Smith, Alisha Davies, Rebecca Rosen, Jennifer Dixon
Press release
Integrated care should be top NHS priority for the next decade say health think tanks
5 Jan 2012
Blog
Clinical commissioning groups: does size matter?
4 Jan 2012
Paul Zollinger-Read
Article
What was the programme theory of New Labour's health system reforms?
1 Jan 2012
Anna Dixon , Ross Millar, Martin Powell
Publication
Data briefing: Emergency bed use
22 Dec 2011
James Thompson , Emmi Poteliakhoff
Article
The NHS in England in 2012
21 Dec 2011
Chris Ham
Blog
NHS merger decisions: what's the evidence?
21 Dec 2011
Candace Imison
Press release
The King's Fund responds to the Public Accounts Committee's report on NHS hospitals achieving foundation trust status
15 Dec 2011

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