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Covid-19 recovery and resilience: what can health and care learn from other disasters?
Long read

Covid-19 recovery and resilience: what can health and care learn from other disasters?

What do communities need to be able to recover from Covid-19 and build resilience? This long read identifies key insights from people involved in disaster recovery around the world.
4 February 2021
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Mental health and primary care networks: understanding the opportunities

This report, published jointly by The King’s Fund and the Centre for Mental Health, explores the opportunities the emergence of primary care networks creates for improving the support and treatment provided to people with mental health needs.
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By Chris Naylor et al - 23 July 2020
Long read

The NHS long-term plan explained

On 7 January, the NHS long-term plan was published setting out key ambitions for the service over the next 10 years. In this explainer, we set out the main commitments in the plan and provide our view of what they might mean, highlighting the opportunities and challenges for the health and care system as it moves to put the plan into practice.
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By Anna Charles et al - 23 January 2019
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Shared responsibility for health: the cultural change we need

We believe that the relationship between the public and the NHS, and between patients and the staff who care for them, needs to be transformed. As well as ensuring that the resources (funding and workforce) needed to deliver care are available, national and local leaders must work to fully engage patients and the public in improving health and care.  
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By Professor Sir Chris Ham et al - 23 November 2018
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Unconventional health and care: five organisations delivering care differently

How can we make sure that people always receive the compassionate care they need? Ben Collins looks at five organisations that are thinking differently about how they support patients and service users, and considers what we can learn from their unconventional approaches.
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By Ben Collins - 5 December 2019
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Volunteering in ambulance services: developing and diversifying opportunities

Commissioned by the Office for Civil Society, this report explores the role and value of volunteering within ambulance services in England and identifies examples of different ways in which volunteering opportunities are being developed.
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By Helen Gilburt - 30 May 2019
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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
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Outcomes for mental health services: what really matters?

An independent commissioned report, Outcomes for mental health services, considers the difficulties in measuring outcomes in mental health services, and calls for consensus between health care professionals and service users on what outcomes actually matter.
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By Ben Collins - 27 March 2019
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How is the NHS performing? December 2018 quarterly monitoring report

Eight out of ten NHS trust finance directors say that funding pressures have led to longer waiting times for people who need mental health treatment, finds our latest quarterly monitoring report.
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By Siva Anandaciva et al - 21 December 2018
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APPG on Mental Health inquiry: into the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health

This consultation response is our contribution to the APPG on Mental Health inquiry into the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health.
19 June 2018
Article

An international perspective on developing new models of care in the PACS vanguards

In this extract from our NHS England-commissioned report on developing new models of care in the PACS vanguards, Don Berwick offers an international perspective.
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By Don Berwick - 19 April 2018
Commissioned report

Developing new models of care in the PACS vanguards: a new national approach to large-scale change?

For this report we invited those who have led the development of the PACS model, nationally and locally, to reflect on the process of being part of the programme, and of trying to bring about complex change in local systems.
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By Chris Naylor et al - 19 April 2018
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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
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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
Report

Funding and staffing of NHS mental health providers: still waiting for parity

Our report finds that the spending gap between NHS acute hospitals and NHS mental health providers is widening.
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By Helen Gilburt - 16 January 2018
Article

Getting the most from technology requires pathway redesign

Test bed initiatives show that, beyond technology, pathway transformation is what leads to the real change.
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By Harry Evans - 10 January 2018
Article

Talking leadership: transforming mental health services

Mandip Randhawa writes about the challenges of transforming mental health services for children and young people.
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By Mandip Randhawa - 29 November 2017
Article

Making an impact: Matthew’s story

We talk to Matthew Lanham, Chief Executive of the Neuromuscular Centre – a charity that won a GSK IMPACT Award in recognition of its work to improve people's health.
By Matthew Lanham - 20 September 2017
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Long read

Building resilience and sustainability – tips for charity leaders

Our work with charities through the GSK IMPACT Awards has highlighted some of the most common challenges they face. Here we share 10 key pieces of advice for charity leaders, based on the knowledge and insight we have gained.
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By Lisa Weaks - 7 September 2017
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Modelling excellence in the charity sector: learning from 20 years of the GSK IMPACT Awards

This report explores the work of small to medium-sized health and wellbeing charities that have won GSK IMPACT Awards, identifying their characteristics and capabilities and looking at the common factors contributing to organisational effectiveness.
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By Helen Gilburt et al - 7 September 2017
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Quality improvement in mental health

Quality improvement has a role to play in improving the quality of care in mental health services. Our report looks at what organisations need to do to implement a quality improvement approach effectively and the benefits this can bring.
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By Shilpa Ross et al - 20 July 2017
Article

Is there ‘parity of esteem’ between mental and physical health? big election questions

Ahead of the general election, we consider whether there is parity of esteem between mental and physical health.
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By Chris Naylor - 19 May 2017
Long read

Cascading Leadership: a new model to support leadership in the voluntary and community sector

We outline the importance of investing in leadership in the voluntary and community sector, sharing the results of an external evaluation of the Cascading Leadership programme.
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By Lisa Weaks et al - 18 May 2017
Report

Mental health and new models of care: lessons from the vanguards

This report argues that new care models and vanguards need to make more of opportunities to improve care through integrated approaches to mental health.
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By Chris Naylor et al - 18 May 2017
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