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Shedding light on service design involving patients and the public

Rich Stockley explains how good patient and public involvement requires a robust and well-designed research process, and not just hoping for the elusive ‘lightbulb moment’.
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By Rich Stockley - 26 November 2018
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Co-ordinating care for high-cost, high-need patients

Chris Ham considers the care models for patients with complex needs presented at the Commonwealth Fund International Symposium, and argues that clinical teams need time and resources to effectively co-ordinate the care they provide.
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By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 23 November 2018
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Using technology to build a partnership of trust with patients

Chris Ham explores how technology can enable positive clinician-patient relationships and support patients to take an active role in their health and wellbeing.
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By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 7 September 2018
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Non-executive directors and integrated care: time to think system

Richard Humphries considers how non-executive directors of NHS trusts can contribute to integrated care efforts.
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By Richard Humphries - 31 May 2018
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What has the STP or ICS ever done for me?

Chris Ham reflects on the progress in ICSs and STPs so far and assesses what they have achieved.
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By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 17 May 2018
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How can the NHS work effectively with patients and the public?

In a guest blog for our NHS and the public project, Ceinwen Giles asks what patient involvement could mean for the NHS.
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By Ceinwen Giles - 4 April 2018
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Prime Minister’s promise of extra funding for the NHS raises questions about how much, when and how?

Following welcome news of a new funding settlement for the NHS, Chris Ham explores some of the remaining unanswered questions.
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By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 28 March 2018
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A progress report on integrated care systems

Catch up on progress being made in integrated care systems around the country. Chris Ham covers the latest developments.
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By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 20 March 2018
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What does the future hold for integrated care systems?

What does the change from accountable care systems to integrated care systems mean? Chris Ham draws on the Fund’s work to clarify what is happening.
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By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 7 February 2018
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The compact between the public and the NHS

Chris Ham explores how the public's expectations of and obligations towards the NHS have changed over time.
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By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 1 January 2018
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Building healthier accountable communities

Nicola Walsh reflects on three important messages that emerged from our 2015 integrated care summit.
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By Nicola Walsh - 21 October 2015
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Improving hospital discharge and intermediate care for older people

Healthwatch England's recent report, Safely home, described in harrowing detail the personal stories of patients who felt that their discharge from hospital was unsupported. It also described patients marooned in acute beds unable to move on. So how can older people's care be improved?
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By David Oliver - 6 October 2015
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Moving from integrated care to integrated population health systems

While integrating care services is part of the journey to a transformed health system, it is not the destination. Efforts to integrate care have rarely encompassed the broader health of local populations and the impact of the wider determinants of health.
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By David Buck - 30 September 2015
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Patient involvement and empowerment

Kirsty Morrison look through our digital archive to explore the Fund's work on patient involvement.
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By Kirsty Morrison - 15 September 2015
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What impact do accountable care organisations have on care quality?

Although the ambitions of the care models in the US may resonate with our intentions here, we would be wise to learn from the early experiences of those who went before us, says Rachael Addicott.
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By Rachael Smithson - 24 August 2015
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Local systems of care: one of the solutions to the challenges facing the NHS

Chris Ham argues that providers need to work together to form local systems of care, with leadership provided by the most experienced managers and clinicians in the NHS.
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By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 16 June 2015
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The vital signs of patient care

What is health care like for the 15 million people living with long-term conditions in England? Today 10 leading patient charities (known collectively as The Richmond Group) are publishing their assessment of the state of health care from the perspective of the people they represent.
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By Jo Maybin - 20 March 2015
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A new relationship with patients and communities?

There are welcome signs that policy-makers and NHS leaders are becoming more open to exploring how health professionals could work more collaboratively with patients as leaders.
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By Allison Trimble - 4 March 2015
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Implementing the NHS five year forward view: let’s not forget engaging patients and communities

‘Implementing the Forward View’ is often synonymous with ‘establishing multispecialty community providers and primary and acute care systems’. But this risks leaving behind the more radical chapter of the Forward View – chapter two, on engaging patients and communities.
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By Catherine Foot - 18 February 2015
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We need to talk about frail older patients

Drawing on experience from our Point of Care programme, Jocelyn Cornwell explores the options to improving the poor results on care shown in the CQC report.
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By Jocelyn Cornwell - 20 October 2011
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