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Evidence and consultation

Consultation response: Draft mandate for the National Health Service Commissioning Board

This document sets out our thoughts on the Department of Health’s consultation on the draft mandate for the National Health Service Commissioning Board.
27 September 2012
Report

Dealing with financially unsustainable providers: how will the failure regime work?

This paper explains why a failure regime is required in the NHS, outlines how the failure regime for NHS trusts (currently being applied in South London) works and how the failure regime for foundation trusts introduced by the Health and Social Care Act 2012 will work in future.
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By Tony Harrison et al - 19 September 2012
Report

Older people and emergency bed use: Exploring variation

This paper explores factors that might be driving the significant variation in use of hospital beds by patients over 65 admitted as an emergency.
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By Candace Imison et al - 9 August 2012
Article

Award-winning charities benefit communities but struggle to convince CCGs

Charities can have an enormous impact on health in their communities, writes Lisa Weaks, but clinical commissioning groups are proving hard to reach.
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By Lisa Weaks - 17 May 2012
Evidence and consultation

Data briefing: Emergency hospital admissions for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions: Identifying the potential for reductions

Our data briefing looks at patterns of admissions for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions and assesses how emergency admissions could be reduced.
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By Yang Tian et al - 3 April 2012
Article

Reshaping commissioning

With authorisation starting in October 2012, Chris Naylor asks how ready are the CCGs to take over the mantle of primary care commissioning.
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By Chris Naylor - 1 February 2012
Report

Service-line management: Can it improve quality and efficiency?

How successfully are trusts implementing service-line management? This paper considers what helps and what hinders this way of working and the potential benefits of using this approach.
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By Catherine Foot et al - 26 January 2012
Evidence and consultation

Data briefing: Emergency bed use: What the numbers tell us

Our data briefing looks at the trends emerging in emergency admissions and hospital bed use in the NHS. What do the numbers tell us?
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By James Thompson et al - 22 December 2011
Article

What happens if a big care provider fails?

Richard Humphries argues that one lesson to emerge from Southern Cross is the need for better clarity in the roles of providers, commissioners, regulators and central government.
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By Richard Humphries - 13 December 2011
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Good governance for clinical commissioning groups: an introductory guide

Written for the NAPC and KPMG, this introductory guide to good governance for clinical commissioning groups aims to help them take their first steps towards authorisation.
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By Candace Imison et al - 9 December 2011
Report

Economic regulation in health care: What can we learn from other regulators?

With the government looking to extend Monitor's powers to act as a regulator for the health care sector, this paper looks at the lessons that can be learned from economic regulation in health care in other countries and from regulation of other market sectors in the UK.
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By Anna Dixon et al - 3 November 2011
Article

What are the lessons from the USA for clinical commissioning groups in the English NHS?

Chris Ham and Paul Zollinger-Read explore the lessons learnt from the USA for English NHS clincial commissioning groups.
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By Professor Sir Chris Ham et al - 15 September 2011
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Accountability in the NHS: Implications of the government's reform programme

The government's health reforms propose radical changes to the running of the NHS, including, how will providers and commissioners be held to account in the future?
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By Jo Maybin et al - 1 June 2011
Article

Competition in the NHS in England

At the heart of the Health and Social Care Bill are provisions to establish a comprehensive system for economic regulation of health and adult social care services. These provisions are the most ambitious attempt yet to apply market regulation to the NHS.
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By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 15 February 2011
Evidence and consultation

The framework for quality accounts: Consultation response

This paper is a response to the Department of Health's consultation on the introduction of quality accounts.
10 December 2009
Evidence and consultation

Department of Health statutory regulation of practitioners of acupuncture and other traditional medicines in the UK: Consultation response

This paper is a formal response to the consultation on the report to ministers from the Department of Health's steering group on the statutory regulation of practitioners of acupuncture, herbal medicine, and other traditional medicine systems practiced in the UK.
16 November 2009
Evidence and consultation

Parliamentary briefing: the Health Bill second reading

The King's Fund has produced this briefing ahead of the second reading of the Health Bill in the House of Commons.
2 June 2009
Report

How to Regulate Health Care in England? An international perspective

Our report compares the regulatory frameworks in the Autonomous Community of Catalonia in Spain, Germany, the Netherlands and New Zealand to the regulation of the NHS in England.
By Richard Lewis et al - 23 November 2006
Evidence and consultation

Public consultation on proposals for change to health care professional regulation: Consultation response

This paper responds to a report on medical regulation, 'Good Doctors, Safer Patients' and the review by the Department of Health on the regulation of non-medical health care professions.
10 November 2006
Article

Jury still out on NHS independence

Anna Dixon welcomes the debate around creating an independent NHS but says that an effective case has still to be made for full arm's-length governance.
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By Anna Dixon - 19 October 2006
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