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Healthy places podcast
Report

Creating healthy places: perspectives from NHS England’s Healthy New Towns programme

Creating healthy places: perspectives from NHS England’s Healthy New Towns programme provides personal insights from those involved in the programme, illustrating how powerful a coherent local approach to improving population health can be.
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By Chris Naylor - 26 September 2019
Long read

Community health services explained

Community services play a key role in keeping people well, treating and managing acute illness and long-term conditions, and supporting people to live independently – and yet they are poorly understood compared to other parts of the NHS. In this explainer we set out what community services are, the challenges faced and how they're changing.
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By Anna Charles - 14 January 2019
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The role of cities in improving population health: international insights

Drawing on international case studies, this report explores the role of cities in improving population health and the conditions needed for success.
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By Chris Naylor et al - 15 June 2018
Volunteering in general practice
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Volunteering in general practice: opportunities and insights

Interest is growing in the contribution that volunteering can make in health and social care. This paper examines the ways in which volunteers are involved with, and are contributing to, general practice.
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By Helen Gilburt et al - 7 February 2018
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Health and wellbeing boards and integrated care systems

In the last several years there have been significant changes in how the NHS works across different services and with external partners such as local government. Richard Humphries explores how this has impacted health and wellbeing boards, and what the future holds for them.
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By Richard Humphries - 13 November 2019
Article

Is the NHS being privatised?

The involvement of the private sector in the NHS is a hotly contested topic. We consider whether the NHS is being privatised.
17 October 2019
Long read

What is commissioning and how is it changing?

Commissioning is the process by which health and care services are planned, purchased and monitored. Here we look at the commissioning process in more detail, the organisations involved and how it is changing.
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By Lillie Wenzel et al - 19 September 2019
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Insights from the spread of the primary care home

This report was commissioned by the National Association of Primary Care (NAPC) and explores the factors that contributed to the spread of the primary care home.
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By Durka Dougall et al - 19 June 2019
Commissioned report

Investing in quality: The contribution of large charities to shaping future health and care

This commissioned report explores how the work of the National Garden Scheme and its beneficiaries contributes to supporting and shaping health and care.
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By Helen Gilburt et al - 15 May 2019
Article

The false promise of the self-improving health system

There is an urgent need to reform the system for paying and contracting for services in the NHS but new complex financial incentive schemes are not the answer, writes Ben Collins for HSJ.
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By Ben Collins - 1 April 2019
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Payments and contracting for integrated care: The false promise of the self-improving health system

Why should the new payment systems being developed to support integrated care be any more successful than previous ones? This new report calls for urgent reform of the system for paying and contracting services in the NHS.
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By Ben Collins - 14 March 2019
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Tackling multiple unhealthy risk factors: emerging lessons from practice

Our report shares learning and insight from services that are using innovative ways to address the problem of multiple unhealthy behaviours – around tobacco use, alcohol consumption, diet and physical activity – in the population.
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By Harry Evans et al - 1 March 2018
Commissioned report

Commissioner perspectives on working with the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector

This report explores how and why clinical commissioning groups and local authorities are engaging with the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector.
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By Beccy Baird et al - 22 February 2018
Diagram showing the four main approaches to working with communities in improving health.
Long read

Communities and health

The role of communities in improving population health is receiving increasing, and long overdue, attention in health policy and practice. This piece gives an overview of the different approaches to working with communities for health.
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By David Buck et al - 14 February 2018
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Reimagining community services: making the most of our assets

This report looks at the current organisation of community health services and considers how the health and care system needs to change to meet the needs of populations now and in the future.
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By Anna Charles et al - 23 January 2018
HIV services in England
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The future of HIV services in England: shaping the response to changing needs

This report explores the challenges and opportunities facing HIV services in four areas in England, and makes recommendations on future development to those in national and local leadership roles.
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By Alex Baylis et al - 25 April 2017
Long read

What is social prescribing?

Social prescribing enables GPs, nurses and other primary care professionals to refer people to a range of local, non-clinical services. But does it work? And how does it fit in with wider health and care policy?
2 February 2017
Five year forward view
Long read

Policy changes to implement the NHS five year forward view: a progress report

Two years on from the publication of the NHS five year forward view, we assess how much progress has been made and what still needs to be done to align policies with the plan.
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By Professor Sir Chris Ham et al - 27 October 2016
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Understanding quality in district nursing services: Learning from patients, carers and staff

This report investigates what good district nursing care looks like and looks at the growing demand capacity gap in district nursing and the worrying impact that this is having on services, the workforce and the quality and safety of patient care.
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By Jo Maybin et al - 1 September 2016
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Clinical commissioning: GPs in charge?

What progress has been made around effective GP involvement in commissioning? This report from The King's Fund and the Nuffield Trust assesses what has been learnt so far and makes recommendations for the future.
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By Ruth Robertson et al - 12 July 2016
Long read

Health and wellbeing boards (HWBs) explained

What are health and wellbeing boards (HWBs) and what role could they play in developments such as integrated commissioning and place-based systems of care?
22 June 2016
Report

Place-based systems of care: A way forward for the NHS in England

Our report looks at how NHS organisations can move towards place-based systems of care, in which NHS organisations and services work together to address the challenges they collectively face. The report suggests 10 principles to guide the development of such systems.
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By Professor Sir Chris Ham et al - 12 November 2015
Article

Integrated commissioning: Beyond Barker

The current fragmented system of commissioning is clearly unsustainable. While the idea of integrated commissioning is an old one, the approach to achieving it must be decidedly new, writes Lillie Wenzel.
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By Lillie Wenzel - 19 August 2015
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Transforming our health care system: Ten priorities for commissioners

Health care commissioners will need to deliver a sustainable system in the face of the most challenging financial and organisational environment seen in decades. Here, we set out ten priorities for commissioners to help them drive forward the changes needed.
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By Chris Naylor et al - 19 June 2015
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