Social care

Activities

• 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.

• Integrated care summary: What does it mean for the NHS?

  Chris Ham summarises the different forms of integrated care and their impact so far on the NHS.

• Health and wellbeing boards: Making them work

  This project will work with two local authorities to gain insight into how they are implementing health and wellbeing boards in the context of NHS reforms. (Project)

• 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)

• Beyond Dilnot – a new future for social care?

  With a White Paper due later this year, we brought together key policy designers and decision-makers to deliberate the future of social care provision. (Past event, 20 Sept 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)

• The voluntary and community sector in health: Implications of the proposed NHS reforms

  What role will the voluntary and community sector play in health and social care if the government’s proposed reforms go ahead? This report discusses the opportunities for the sector, but also addresses the risks it may face. (Publication, 16 Jun 2011)

• Integrating health and social care: Where next?

  In the context of the intense financial and demographic challenges facing both health and social care, this paper offers a fresh assessment of the prospects for integrating health and social care and the opportunities and challenges arising from the government’s proposals. (Publication, Richard Humphries, Natasha Curry, 31 Mar 2011)

• Social care funding and the NHS: an impending crisis?

  Social care funding has increased in real terms for the past decade, but this new paper examines the trends in spending and suggests there could be a funding gap of £1billion by 2014 unless councils can achieve unprecedented efficiency savings. (Publication, Richard Humphries, 17 Mar 2011)

• 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)

• Health policy priorities for Parliament

  Contributed by key health sector figures and commentators, this publication provides information on the key health policy agenda priorities and how they can be addressed and advanced in the coming years. (Publication, November 2010)

• Spending Review: what it means for health and social care

  This conference provided an analysis of the outcome of the Spending Review and engaged delegates in debate around how those working in the NHS and social care will need to develop strategies and implement plans to provide cost-effective services. (Past event, 5 Nov 2010)

• Big Society: Political philosophy and implications for health policy

  An overview of the Big Society and what it means for health care in England, this briefing raised a number of questions and issues, including nudging to improve public health, community empowerment and patient power. (Briefing, Beccy Ashton, 26 Oct 2010)

• Place-based approaches and the NHS: Lessons from Total Place

  This report captures the content of a conference held by The King’s Fund to assess the involvement of the NHS in the Total Place programme. The event was also an opportunity to consider how the Total Place approach might be applied in the context of the new government’s priorities and the imminent squeeze on public spending. (Event write up, 1 Jun 2010)

• 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)

• Future Challenges for the NHS: Looking ahead to the next five years

  This conference explored the implications of the changing policy and political environment and considered how a coalition government might deliver a more constructive approach for those working in the NHS and leading health care organisations. (Past event, 7 Jun 2010)

• Changing places – the NHS and Total Place

  What happens when we look at public money in terms of where it’s spent instead of which organisations spend it? This was a question asked at a conference on Total Place held at The King’s Fund this week. The event also highlighted the work of 13 pilot programmes across England where local public service organisations are collaborating to see how public resources could be used more effectively. So what would a place-based approach to spending mean for the NHS? (Blog, Richard Humphries, 4 Jun 2010)

• HALE

  HALE, 2010 GSK IMPACT Awards winners

• Securing good care for more people

  This report proposes new, fairer funding arrangements, a review of the current settlement for older people and reforms to the benefits system. (Publications, Richard Humphries, Julien Forder, José-Luis Fernández, 16 Mar 2010)

• A National Care Service – how would it work?

  This half-day conference explored how a National Care Service would work in practice. (Past event, 10 Dec 2009)