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Article

Balancing budgets or protecting patient safety

In this article for the British Medical Journal, Chris Ham considers the choices facing providers who are struggling to balance budgets and protect patient safety and quality of care.
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By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 22 November 2013
Article

How will health and wellbeing boards fare?

The 65-year-old relationship between the NHS and local government bears testimony to numerous attempts to co-ordinate the work of these two enormous public service silos. Will the new health and wellbeing boards fare any better?
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By Richard Humphries - 21 November 2013
Evidence and consultation

Health Select Committee's inquiry into public expenditure on health and social care: Evidence submission

This submission considers the financial pressures the NHS is currently under and will continue to face in the coming years.
18 November 2013
Report

Health and wellbeing boards: One year on

This report examines how health and wellbeing boards have used their shadow year, what they have achieved, and whether they are providing effective leadership across local systems of care.
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By Richard Humphries et al - 31 October 2013
Article

Housing alongside health and care

With this year’s party conferences concluded, none of the political parties have yet committed to a strategic vision for the issues facing the future of health and social care, says Richard Humphries.
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By Richard Humphries - 16 October 2013
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How is the health and social care system performing? September 2013: Quarterly monitoring report

The NHS will struggle to meet its target of delivering £20 billion in productivity improvements by 2015 according to our latest quarterly monitoring report.
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By John Appleby et al - 18 September 2013
Article

How local government's relationship with the NHS is changing

Relationships between councils and clinical commissioning groups are getting better, but there are big challenges ahead, says Richard Humphries.
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By Richard Humphries - 27 August 2013
Report

Exploring the system-wide costs of falls in older people in Torbay

Using Torbay’s unique patient-level linked data set, we explore the NHS and social care costs of the care pathway for older people in the 12 months before and after being admitted to hospital as a result of a fall.
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By Yang Tian et al - 22 August 2013
Article

Why the NHS is about to be hit by an even bigger crisis

Jeremy Hunt's acrimonious exchanges with Andy Burnham this week were the start of something much bigger, says Chris Ham.
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By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 19 July 2013
Report

NHS buildings: obstacle or opportunity?

The first in a series of four papers that aim to crystallise ideas for change in the future of health and social care. This paper re-thinks the way that the NHS could use its estate to catalyse change.
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By Nigel Edwards - 11 July 2013
Article

An opportunity for local government to influence future health policy

Richard Humphries writes about a deepening structural fault line between the NHS and social care providers.
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By Richard Humphries - 24 June 2013
Report

The four UK health systems: Learning from each other

This paper aims to probe what it sees as a woefully under-explored area: the differences between the United Kingdom's four separate health systems.
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By Nicholas Timmins - 13 June 2013
Report

How is the health and social care system performing? June 2013: Quarterly monitoring report

Our latest quarterly monitoring report confirms that the government's target has been missed as A&E waiting times hit a nine-year high.
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By John Appleby et al - 4 June 2013
Report

How should we pay for health care in future? Results of deliberative events with the public

In collaboration with Ipsos MORI, we held two deliberative events with members of the general public (one in London and one in Leeds) to find out what they thought about future spending on health and social care, and how that spending might be funded.
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By Amy Galea et al - 15 April 2013
Article

Resource allocation: a forgotten element of health policy

In austere times, the importance of resource allocation in the NHS should be clear for everyone − not just policy nerds − says David Buck
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By David Buck - 11 April 2013
Report

Improving the allocation of health resources in England How to decide who gets what

While the principles behind resource allocation in the English NHS have changed little since the mid-1970s, the NHS has changed considerably. This paper argues that the resource allocation system needs to change accordingly.
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By David Buck et al - 11 April 2013
Article

Health and wellbeing boards: policy and prospects

This article aims to examine the role of health and wellbeing boards in the context of the government's reforms introduced by the Health and Social Act 2012 and the fundamental challenges facing the NHS and local government; it also aims to assess evidence from the early experience of shadow boards and considers what factors will most influence their success.
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By Richard Humphries - 24 February 2013
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How is the health and social care system performing? February 2013: Quarterly monitoring report

This quarter's monitoring report finds that, while most NHS organisations are on track to meet financial targets, it is clear that pressures are growing towards the end of the second year of the so-called Nicholson Challenge.
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By John Appleby et al - 14 February 2013
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Spending on health and social care over the next 50 years: Why think long term?

This report considers the drivers of spending on health and long-term care, and asks whether spending must or should consume such large proportions of GDP in the future, and the fiscal feasibility of this.
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By John Appleby - 31 January 2013
Article

The NHS in England in 2013

Funding and service pressures are likely to have an impact on the quality of care in 2013, says Chris Ham.
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By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 2 January 2013
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