How to deliver high-quality, patient-centred, cost-effective care

This article is the collective effort of ten of the leading health and social care organisations in the voluntary sector to identify the five key themes that the health and social care system must embrace to be sustainable and to ensure quality.

This article is the collective effort of ten of the leading health and social care organisations in the voluntary sector  - Diabetes UK, Age UK, Asthma UK, Breakthrough Breast Cancer, the British Heart Foundation, British Lung Foundation, Macmillan Cancer Support, Neurological Alliance, Rethink Severe Mental Illness and The Stroke Association - to identify the five key themes that the health and social care system must embrace to be sustainable and to ensure quality.

Each organisation submitted evidence to The King's Fund, which independently analysed and assessed each submission and worked with the organisations to establish a common position.