Publications

Financial instability is just one reason for failure in the NHS. This paper explores how failure can be prevented or managed, while protecting the quality of patient care and restoring viability.

This paper examines whether incentives are helping or hindering progress. Its findings are based on interviews with health sector representatives in south-east London.

Explores the experiences and aspirations of 380 international nurses working in London, and gives an overview of trends and policy on international recruitment.

This report assesses the policy initiatives the government has taken to address waiting list numbers and waiting times, and explores what should be done next.

John Appleby explores the extent to which poor performance by individual clinicians could be reflected in data available from routine NHS statistics.

The Labour Party came to power in 1997 promising to 'save' the NHS, but has it achieved its health service priorities? This audit seeks to answer that question.

How clear is the link between low winter temperatures and high death rates? John Appleby argues that the NHS needs to measure health outcomes as well as health care outputs.

This paper looks at how incentives in the health system could bring about a shift in focus, to encourage NHS managers to focus on wider public health issues.

The NHS regularly measures and monitors aspects of its performance. If it started routinely measuring patients' health-related quality-of-life outcomes too, what would be the benefits?

Brings together the conclusions of The King's Fund work for the Department of Health to identify strategies for achieving and sustaining reductions in NHS waiting times.