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Evidence and consultation

Briefing: The Care Bill: Second reading in the House of Commons

While we welcome the Care Bill as an important stepping stone to wider reform of care and support, it will not deliver the change needed to meet future health and care needs.
11 December 2013
Commissioned report

Volunteering in acute trusts in England: Understanding the scale and impact

Part of a project funded by the Department of Health, this paper gauges the scale and value of volunteering in NHS acute trusts in England.
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By Amy Galea et al - 21 November 2013
Commissioned report

South Devon and Torbay: Proactive case management using the community virtual ward and the Devon Predictive Model

This case study explores community virtual wards based in GP practices within South Devon and Torbay Clinical Commissioning Group.
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By Lara Sonola et al - 24 October 2013
Article

Supporting poorly performing NHS hospitals to improve

Chris Ham comments on Jeremy Hunt's plans to ask high-performing NHS hospitals to provide support to poorly performing hospitals to enable them to improve the quality and safety of patient care.
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By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 25 September 2013
Report

The quest for integrated health and social care: A case study in Canterbury, New Zealand

This paper tells the story of the journey made by the District Health Board for Canterbury, New Zealand, towards its goal of providing integrated care for all. It looks at the drivers for change and the leadership values shown by key players.
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By Nicholas Timmins et al - 12 September 2013
Commissioned report

Oxleas Advanced Dementia Service: Supporting carers and building resilience

This case study looks at how Oxleas Advanced Dementia Service provides care co-ordination, and specialist palliative care and support to patients with advanced dementia living at home.
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By Lara Sonola et al - 5 September 2013
Article

Hospitals: is bigger better?

In the latest edition of our Insight magazine, we talk to Nigel Edwards, Senior Fellow at The King's Fund, about the problems often faced by smaller hospitals and how these problems could be overcome.
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By Nigel Edwards - 13 August 2013
Commissioned report

The Esteem Team: Co-ordinated care in the Sandwell Integrated Primary Care Mental Health and Wellbeing Service

The Esteem Team aims to support people with mental health conditions and complex social needs in the borough of Sandwell. Find out more about their approach to co-ordinated care.
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By Veronika Thiel et al - 8 August 2013
Report

Clinical commissioning groups: Supporting improvement in general practice?

The King's Fund and the Nuffield Trust are working together to assess the implementation and impact of CCGs. This first report provides an overview of developments through to March 2013.
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By Chris Naylor et al - 22 July 2013
Report

Integrated care in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales: Lessons for England

What can the health and social care system in England learn from the experiences of the other countries of the United Kingdom?
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By Professor Sir Chris Ham et al - 16 July 2013
Article

Securing the future of general practice: new models of primary care

This report from the Nuffield Trust and The King’s Fund examines the new GP organisations forming to allow care provision at greater scale.
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By Nigel Edwards et al - 13 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

Paying for social care: Beyond Dilnot

Paying for social care: Beyond Dilnot discusses the history of social care reform and considers the present and future funding pressures on the system. The paper calls for health and social care services to be considered as a single system with a new framework being put in place for planning and cost-sharing.
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By Richard Humphries - 21 May 2013
Evidence and consultation

The Care Bill: Second reading in the House of Lords: Briefing

The King's Fund welcome the Care Bill as a significant stepping stone to wider reform of care and support and the new duties on local authorities to promote wellbeing.
21 May 2013
Article

Are 'family and friends tests' useful: agree, disagree, neither, don’t know?

Family and friends tests are an established method of obtaining feedback on performance for many private sector businesses. But how well is this sort of customer feedback suited to public services like the NHS?
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By John Appleby - 14 May 2013
Report

Volunteering in health and care: Securing a sustainable future

Our report looks at the important part that volunteers play in improving patient experience, addressing health inequalities, and building a closer relationship between services and communities.
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By Chris Naylor et al - 14 March 2013
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Developing supportive design for people with dementia: The King’s Fund’s Enhancing the Healing Environment Programme 2009-2012

Our publication marks the completion of 26 schemes in 23 NHS acute, community and mental health hospitals in England to improve the environment of care for people with dementia.
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By Sarah Waller CBE et al - 9 January 2013
Report

Producing patient information: How to research, develop and produce effective information resources

Our report offers health professionals advice on producing good-quality pateint information.
By Mark Duman - 1 January 2013
Report

Community-based Compulsory Treatment Orders in Scotland: The early evidence

What impact have community-based compulsory treatment orders had in the first six months since they were introduced in Scotland, and what lessons can England and Wales learn from this experience?
By Simon Lawton-Smith - 20 November 2006
Report

Clearing the Air: Debating smoke-free policies in psychiatric units

Explores the arguments for and against the proposed ban on indoor smoking in psychiatric units, as well as the impact of smoking and smoking bans in these settings.
By Karen Jochelson et al - 18 July 2006
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