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Using patient feedback to drive improvement

Joni Jabbal looks at what enables NHS acute trusts to take data from inpatient surveys, understand it, work with it, and use it to improve patient experience overall.

By Joni Jabbal - 10 December 2015

Do the public still trust doctors and nurses?

Do the public still trust doctors and nurses to deliver high-quality care and put patients, interests first, or could high-profile failings and inspection results have contributed to a change in public opinion?

By Anna Charles - 7 December 2015

System leaders and patient leaders: learning from a new relationship

What does a positive and effective patient leader/system leader relationship look like, how does it develop and what makes it work? David Sgorbati looks at what we can learn from how these relationships form.

By David Sgorbati - 23 November 2015

NHS sustainability: there aren’t always more fish in the sea

The NHS needs to effectively manage its common resources more money and greater efficiency won't be enough.

By Hugh Alderwick - 16 November 2015

Delayed transfers of care: join the queue

Delayed transfers of care, where patients are ready to return home or transfer to another form of care but still occupy a hospital bed, are a hot topic of discussion right now. So what does the latest data tell us?

By James Thompson, David Maguire - 9 November 2015

Does the NHS need more ratings?

Last week, Jeremy Hunt announced the government's plans to introduce Ofsted-style ratings for CCGs, to help fill what he called the transparency gap in the NHS. But are more ratings really what the NHS needs?

By Hugh Alderwick - 6 November 2015

The story of us: our relationship with patients, service users and the public

Becky Seale shares the story of The King's Fund's new and still emerging relationship with patients, service users and citizens, how it has developed so far and where it might go in the future.

By Becky Seale - 29 October 2015

Safe staffing in the NHS comes at a cost

When the Care Quality Commission suggested in its recent State of Care report that safer, better care does not necessarily cost more the inclusion of the word necessarily was important, says Helen McKenna.

By Helen McKenna - 26 October 2015

How can the performance of local health systems be assessed?

Chris Ham reflects on the findings of our review for the Department of Health, which recommends radical simplification and better alignment of existing frameworks for assessing performance in the NHS.

By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 12 October 2015

Is the purchaser–provider split dying?

Is the purchaser provider split dead? No. Is it dying? Quite possibly, says Nicholas Timmins.

By Nicholas Timmins - 22 September 2015

Patient involvement and empowerment

Kirsty Morrison look through our digital archive to explore the Fund's work on patient involvement.

By Kirsty Morrison - 15 September 2015

Is the NHS delivering enough things right?

Misuse occurs in the NHS when health services are poorly delivered. So how big is the problem of preventable harm in health care?

By Hugh Alderwick - 9 September 2015

Is the NHS delivering enough of the right things?

Underuse happens when effective care isn’t delivered when it’s needed and it can lead to people needing more complex care as their conditions get worse. So, where might the NHS not be delivering enough of the right things?

By Hugh Alderwick - 19 August 2015

Is the NHS delivering too much of the wrong things?

More health care is not always better health care. Sometimes the NHS delivers services that people don’t want or need: the problem of overuse.

By Hugh Alderwick - 12 August 2015

How much has generic prescribing and dispensing saved the NHS?

The rising trend in cheaper generic medicines rather than proprietary or branded drugs being prescribed and dispensed has saved the NHS billions of pounds and enabled millions more prescriptions to be dispensed.

By John Appleby - 4 August 2015

Day case surgery: a good news story for the NHS

The rising proportion of operations carried out as day cases over the past few decades has been good for patients and a much more efficient use of NHS resources, says John Appleby.

By John Appleby - 30 July 2015

A new way of measuring hospital productivity: what does it add?

Lord Carter's interim report on the productivity of NHS providers includes a new method of comparing operating costs: the Adjusted Treatment Index (ATI). But how will it work, and what does it add?

By David Maguire - 28 July 2015

No more inner Stalin: can Jeremy Hunt deliver his vision for the NHS?

The headlines that preceded Jeremy Hunt’s speech at the Fund may have focused on seven-day working, but what he had to say about his approach to reform is likely to be of greater interest to leaders within the NHS.

By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 17 July 2015

NHS waiting times: all change?

With health policy announcements coming out almost daily both before and after the election, it’s time to take stock of where we are with NHS waiting times.

By James Thompson - 16 July 2015

Understanding care quality: confronting complexity

Will drawing on a whole range of information about care quality take us a bit closer to a meaningful understanding of what care is like in practice?

By Jo Maybin - 19 June 2015

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