Projects | The King's Fund

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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.

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From Ward to Board

This project examined the role executive nurses can play to influence the clinical quality agenda at ward level.

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The future of community health services

Examines the issues faced by primary care trusts in determining the future of primary care services patients receive in the community.

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Kicking Bad Habits

How can primary care trusts best encourage people to change their behaviour and adopt healthier lifestyles?

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Whole Systems Demonstrator Action Network (WSDAN)

The WSDAN programme looked at the use of telehealth and telecare in improving the management of long-term conditions.

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Technology in the NHS

Identifying what determines whether and how technology is adopted in the NHS, and how barriers to adoption and uptake could be overcome.

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Health Care Spending Review 2007

Our 2007 review of NHS funding and performance, led by Sir Derek Wanless.

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Maternity services inquiry

An independent inquiry that began in late 2006 to find out what can be done make maternity care safer.