Projects | The King's Fund

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Clinicians' use of cost and quality information: the role of service-line management

This project looks at how clinicians, working alongside general management and finance colleagues, use data on cost and quality to help them to manage their services.

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European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies

The King's Fund worked with the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies to take on the role as national lead institute for England.

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The Health and Social Care Bill

The Health and Social Care Bill represented the biggest shake-up of the NHS since its inception. Read our commentary and analysis on the Bill before it became the Health and Social Care Act.

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Learning from other health systems

As part of our work to improve health care in England, we also look to learn from international evidence. Here is a selection of our internationally focused work, plus links to resources.

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The NHS White Paper

The White Paper, Equity and Excellence: liberating the NHS, represented one of the biggest shake ups of the health system since the NHS was established. We looked at the issues that it raised and analysed the reforms it suggested.

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Mental health and the productivity challenge

This project explored opportunities to re-design mental health services in order to improve productivity, but without sacrificing quality of care.

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Informed choice: helping patients make better decisions

This project explored whether or not comparative hospital data helps patients to make better choices.

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Progress made by the NHS in the past 13 years

Examining what progress the NHS in England has made since 1997 against eight criteria for a high-performing health system.

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Quality and Outcomes Framework

Aims to examine the quality of the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) on general practice, public health outcomes and health inequalities in England.

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Partners for Health in London

This project aims to assist health care providers in London to make explicit their ideas and explanations about how and why particular health care innovations work.

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The 21st-century doctor

A project to engage medical students around the country in the issues surrounding medical professionalism.

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Quality in a Cold Climate

The NHS is facing the biggest financial challenge in its history. Our Quality in a Cold Climate project aimed to support the NHS in delivering productivity improvements required to meet this challenge.

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Safer Births project

The Safer Births programme enabled frontline professionals working in maternity units to improve the safety of the services they deliver to women and their babies.

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Building high-quality commissioning: what role can external organisations play?

This project explores the role and impact that external organisations providing commissioning support services have had so far, and could do in the future.

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Social care: reform of funding and delivery

Seeks to maintain the momentum for change to the funding and delivery of the social care system.

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Inquiry into the quality of general practice in England

The King's Fund ran an 18-month inquiry into the quality of general practice in England.

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Caring choices: the future of social care funding

A coalition of 15 organisations seeking to engage the public in debate about how social care should be funded and provided.

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Patient choice: how patients choose and how providers respond

This project examined the implementation of the patient choice policy and its impact on the quality of service in the NHS.

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Assessing the evidence on polyclinics

A major piece of research to find out if GP-led health centres can really deliver better, more integrated care and bring down costs.

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Choice at the end of life

The King's Fund evaluated Marie Curie's flagship Delivering Choice programme, which helps patients make informed choices about where they wish to die.