Productivity and efficiency

Productivity and efficiency: activities

• Sustainable health and social care: Connecting environmental and financial performance

  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.

• Sustainable health and social care: audio-slideshow

  Chris Naylor discusses the findings of our new report on sustainable health and social care, connecting financial and environmental performance.

• Adam Darkins: International Congress on Telehealth and Telecare 2012

  Adam Darkins discusses how telehealth has helped to improve the lives of veterans with long-term conditions in America.

• How is the NHS performing? January 2012 quarterly monitoring report

  Our third quarterly monitoring report provides a regular update on how the NHS is coping as it grapples with the evolving reform agenda.

• The NHS health check: January 2012 quarterly monitoring report

  As NHS hospitals and employees grapple with productivity improvements and cost saving, we take a closer look at the current state of the NHS with our NHS health check prezi.

• Data briefing: Emergency bed use: What the numbers tell us

  Our data briefing looks at the trends emerging in emergency admissions and hospital bed use in the NHS. What do the numbers tell us?

• Improving health and health care in London: Who will take the lead?

  This report highlights the particular challenges that health care organisations in London face and suggests ways to facilitate appropriate service change.

• Lessons from India: Aravind Eye Care System

  We speak to Dr Ravindran of the Aravind Eye Care System about his pioneering work of delivering eye care in Tamil Nadu, India. (Article, 24 Nov 2011)

• Muir Gray: The third health care revolution - NHS information revolution

  At our NHS Information Revolution conference, Professor Sir Muir Gray closed the event with his vision for a third health care revolution. (Video, 20 Oct 2011)

• Creating incentives to improve quality and promote integration

  Featuring Professor Steve Field and Dr Dana Safran, this conference looked at US models of integrated care and provided lessons for NHS commissioners and providers on incentivising integration to improve quality and reduce costs. (Past event, 10 Jan 2012)

• Think tanks work together to support integrated care for patients

  The King's Fund and Nuffield Trust have been asked by the Department of Health to support the development of a national strategy for the promotion of integrated care at scale and pace in local communities. (Press release, 20 Oct 2011)

• Ben Bridgewater: Measuring outcomes for surgery

  Ben Bridgewater, explains how measuring and reporting outcomes for surgery can improve those outcomes.

• Quarterly monitoring report

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

• 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)

• Environmental sustainability in health and social care

  We work with the NHS Sustainable Dev. Unit to establish what is needed for health and social care services in the UK to become more environmentally sustainable. (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: 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)

• 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)

• Routes for social and health care: A simulation exercise

  How can the health and social care system rise to the current political and financial challenges? This paper is based on a simulation exercise which set up a number of routes to managing change. (Publication, Sarah Harvey, Laurie McMahon, Richard Humphries, 20 Jun 2011)

• NHS Future Forum: Question and answer session

  Professor Steve Field and other members of the NHS Future Forum take questions on their recommendations to the government. (Video, 13 Jun 2011)