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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
Integrated care summary: What is it? Does it work? What does it mean for the NHS?
22 Sep 2011
Chris Ham
Multimedia: Slideshow
Andrew Dilnot: findings of the Commission on Funding of Care and Support
20 Sep 2011
Andrew Dilnot
Event
Beyond Dilnot: a new future for social care?
20 Sep 2011
Article
What are the lessons from the USA for clinical commissioning groups in the English NHS?
15 Sep 2011
Chris Ham , Paul Zollinger-Read
Multimedia: Slideshow
Ben Bridgewater: measuring outcomes for surgery
14 Sep 2011
Ben Bridgewater
Multimedia: Slideshow
Muir Gray: introducing the NHS Atlas of Variation
14 Sep 2011
Muir Gray
Multimedia: Audio
Jack Wennberg: reducing unwarranted variations
14 Sep 2011
Jack Wennberg
Event
Reducing unwarranted variations in health care
14 Sep 2011
Multimedia: Slideshow
Peter Littlejohns: generating the right kind of clinical evidence
14 Sep 2011
Peter Littlejohns
Multimedia: Slideshow
Anne Talbot: clinicians driving Clinical Dashboards
14 Sep 2011
Anne Talbot

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