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Report A vision for population health: Towards a healthier future We need to move away from a system just focused on diagnosing and treating illness towards one that is based on promoting wellbeing and preventing ill health. Our report sets out a new vision for population health. Report 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. Report What role do taxes and regulation play in promoting better health? It’s an issue that has generated heated debate – so how can regulatory and fiscal policy tools be used to improve people’s health? This briefing explores the role these tools might play. Report 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. Report Enhanced health in care homes: learning from experiences so far This report looks at experiences so far in the areas of England working on delivering enhanced health in care homes. Report Social care for older people: Home truths This report looks at social care services for older people and the impact of cuts in local authority spending on social care providers and on older people, their families and carers. Report Devolution: What it means for health and social care in England This briefing describes the origins of devolution and explores key policy and implementation questions in relation to health and social care. Report Inequalities in life expectancy: Changes over time and implications for policy This report from David Buck and David Maguire explores how the relationship between income deprivation and life expectancy has changed over time and looks at the impact of other variables such as employment, housing deprivation, binge drinking and diet. Report Making our health and care systems fit for an ageing population Our fragmented health and care system is not meeting the needs of older people. This report sets out a framework and tools to help local service leaders improve the care they provide for older people across nine key components. Report Providing integrated care for older people with complex needs: Lessons from seven international case studies This report synthesises evidence from seven integrated care case studies, and identifies lessons for policy-makers and service providers to help with the challenges ahead. Report Improving the public's health: A resource for local authorities Local authorities have been given renewed responsibility for public health. These resources attempt to help councils decide which aspects of public health to prioritise, and what actions are most effective. 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. 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. 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. Report Health policy under the coalition government: A mid-term assessment Written halfway through the 2010–2015 parliament, this review considers how the NHS is performing under the coalition government, following on from The King’s Fund’s major review of NHS performance from 1997 to 2010. Report Clustering of unhealthy behaviours over time: Implications for policy and practice Our paper looks at how smoking, excessive drinking, poor diet and lack of exercise cluster in the English population and how that is changing over time. 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. Report The care of frail older people with complex needs: time for a revolution: The Sir Roger Bannister Health Summit, Leeds Castle This paper summarises discussions from the Sir Roger Bannister Health Summit, held at Leeds Castle, which looked at the challenges of caring for frail older people. Report Continuity of care for older hospital patients: A call for action This paper focuses on those aged 70 years and older with multiple health problems and explores how continuity of care affects them and the people closest to them. Report Issues facing commissioners of end-of-life care This paper, authored by Rachael Addicott and Jenny Hiley, highlights the current barriers to commissioning personalised, integrated services for end of life. Report Environments for care at the end of life: The King's Fund's Enhancing the Healing Environment Programme 2008-2010 Describing projects in 19 NHS trusts and one HM prison that took part in schemes to improve the environment of care at the end of life, this publication celebrates the completion of the latest phase of the Enhancing the Healing Environment programme. Report Implementing the End of Life Care Strategy: Lessons from good practice This report from The King's Fund is aimed at those responsible for commissioning and organising end-of-life care services at a local level. Subscribe to our Weekly Update newsletterHealth and care explained: How does the health and care system work? How is it changing?This selection of content aims to make sense of the health and care system – including videos, articles, illustrated summaries and more. Got a question? Ask a librarian
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.
Report A vision for population health: Towards a healthier future We need to move away from a system just focused on diagnosing and treating illness towards one that is based on promoting wellbeing and preventing ill health. Our report sets out a new vision for population health.
Report 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.
Report What role do taxes and regulation play in promoting better health? It’s an issue that has generated heated debate – so how can regulatory and fiscal policy tools be used to improve people’s health? This briefing explores the role these tools might play.
Report 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.
Report Enhanced health in care homes: learning from experiences so far This report looks at experiences so far in the areas of England working on delivering enhanced health in care homes.
Report Social care for older people: Home truths This report looks at social care services for older people and the impact of cuts in local authority spending on social care providers and on older people, their families and carers.
Report Devolution: What it means for health and social care in England This briefing describes the origins of devolution and explores key policy and implementation questions in relation to health and social care.
Report Inequalities in life expectancy: Changes over time and implications for policy This report from David Buck and David Maguire explores how the relationship between income deprivation and life expectancy has changed over time and looks at the impact of other variables such as employment, housing deprivation, binge drinking and diet.
Report Making our health and care systems fit for an ageing population Our fragmented health and care system is not meeting the needs of older people. This report sets out a framework and tools to help local service leaders improve the care they provide for older people across nine key components.
Report Providing integrated care for older people with complex needs: Lessons from seven international case studies This report synthesises evidence from seven integrated care case studies, and identifies lessons for policy-makers and service providers to help with the challenges ahead.
Report Improving the public's health: A resource for local authorities Local authorities have been given renewed responsibility for public health. These resources attempt to help councils decide which aspects of public health to prioritise, and what actions are most effective.
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.
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.
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.
Report Health policy under the coalition government: A mid-term assessment Written halfway through the 2010–2015 parliament, this review considers how the NHS is performing under the coalition government, following on from The King’s Fund’s major review of NHS performance from 1997 to 2010.
Report Clustering of unhealthy behaviours over time: Implications for policy and practice Our paper looks at how smoking, excessive drinking, poor diet and lack of exercise cluster in the English population and how that is changing over time.
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.
Report The care of frail older people with complex needs: time for a revolution: The Sir Roger Bannister Health Summit, Leeds Castle This paper summarises discussions from the Sir Roger Bannister Health Summit, held at Leeds Castle, which looked at the challenges of caring for frail older people.
Report Continuity of care for older hospital patients: A call for action This paper focuses on those aged 70 years and older with multiple health problems and explores how continuity of care affects them and the people closest to them.
Report Issues facing commissioners of end-of-life care This paper, authored by Rachael Addicott and Jenny Hiley, highlights the current barriers to commissioning personalised, integrated services for end of life.
Report Environments for care at the end of life: The King's Fund's Enhancing the Healing Environment Programme 2008-2010 Describing projects in 19 NHS trusts and one HM prison that took part in schemes to improve the environment of care at the end of life, this publication celebrates the completion of the latest phase of the Enhancing the Healing Environment programme.
Report Implementing the End of Life Care Strategy: Lessons from good practice This report from The King's Fund is aimed at those responsible for commissioning and organising end-of-life care services at a local level.
Health and care explained: How does the health and care system work? How is it changing?This selection of content aims to make sense of the health and care system – including videos, articles, illustrated summaries and more.
