Publications

The medical profession needs to respond to changing expectations of patients, the state, and the health service itself. This paper proposes a way to redefine medical professionalism for the future.

This report from The King's Fund examines how we construct and use evidence to assess the effectiveness of complex social interventions.

This practical full-colour guide and accompanying CD Rom, published in partnership with NHS Estates, shows how staff teams with no specialist knowledge can make dramatic changes to areas such as waiting rooms by making better use of existing resources.

This paper aims to shape discussion about the benefits and risks of practice-led commissioning, in which primary care clinicians are involved in the commissioning process.

Argues for a health system geared towards keeping people healthy, and asks what mechanisms and incentives are needed to put health at the heart of attitudes, policy and behaviour.

Explores how managed care organisations in the United States could support the development of models for the NHS to improve the way it manages chronic conditions.

This paper looks at the initiatives and strategies being used across London to raise children's levels of health and educational attainment.