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Long read

The road to renewal: five priorities for health and care

Covid-19 is the biggest challenge the health and care system has faced in living memory; it's essential that lessons are learned from this experience. So how can the system build on this learning to bring about positive change and renewal? This long read sets out five priorities to help guide the approach to renewal across health and care. 
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By Anna Charles et al - 8 April 2021
Remote working toolkit for general practices and primary care networks
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Remote working toolkit for general practices and primary care networks

As remote working continues to be a reality for many, what are the implications for primary care? This guide outlines what’s needed to make remote working effective and inclusive for all staff.
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By Beccy Baird et al - 11 March 2021
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The health of people from ethnic minority groups in England

This explainer examines the differences in health outcomes for ethnic minority groups, highlighting the variation across groups and conditions, and considers what’s needed to reduce health inequalities.
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By Veena Raleigh et al - 17 February 2021
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The courage of compassion: Supporting nurses and midwives to deliver high-quality care

This report, commissioned by the RCN Foundation, explores the causes and consequences of poor mental health and wellbeing among nurses and midwives, and seeks to identify solutions to these issues and examples of good practice.
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By Michael West et al - 23 September 2020
Report

Stories from social care leadership: Progress amid pestilence and penury

Richard Humphries and Nicholas Timmins interview voices from across the social care sector to explore where leadership lies and what might be done to improve it.
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By Richard Humphries et al - 11 February 2021
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Understanding factors that enabled digital service change in general practice during the Covid-19 pandemic

The Covid-19 pandemic prompted rapid uptake of existing digital technologies to deliver patient care differently in general practice. This report looks at how services changed and the digital tools and services that were used to facilitate that change
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By Beccy Baird et al - 10 February 2021
Long read

Community pharmacy explained

Community pharmacy is a critical part of primary care in England, but its role and relationship to the wider NHS is often poorly understood. This explainer looks at the community pharmacy sector in England, explaining how pharmacies are contracted and funded, the types of services they provide and future trends in the sector.
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By Beccy Baird et al - 16 December 2020
Long read

Primary care networks explained

A key part of the NHS long-term plan, primary care networks (PCNs) will bring general practices together to work at scale. But what are they? How are they funded and held accountable? And what difference will they make? Beccy Baird explains the latest form of GP collaboration.
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By Beccy Baird et al - 20 November 2020
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The 2020/21 update to the GP contract explained

NHS England and the British Medical Association’s general practice committee have negotiated an update to the five-year GP contract framework published in January 2019. This explainer outlines the changes and explains what they mean for the future of general practice.
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By Beccy Baird et al - 19 November 2020
Long read

What is social prescribing?

Social prescribing enables GPs, nurses and other primary care professionals to refer people to a range of local, non-clinical services to support their health and wellbeing. But does it work? And how does it fit in with wider health and care policy?
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By David Buck et al - 4 November 2020
Evidence and consultation

Response to the Health and Social Care Select Committee inquiry into workforce burnout and resilience in the NHS and social care

In this written submission to the House of Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee, we provide an overview of the resilience of the NHS and social care workforce, including the impact of Covid-19.
16 October 2020
Evidence and consultation

Ethnicity coding in health records

In October 2020, The King’s Fund and UCL Institute of Health Equity submitted a paper to NHS England and NHS Improvement highlighting the limitations in both the coverage and quality of ethnicity recording of people using NHS health and care services in England and suggesting how this can be improved.
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By Veena Raleigh et al - 12 October 2020 25-minute read
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Technology and innovation for long-term health conditions

It has become received wisdom that the NHS struggles to adopt digital innovation, but during the Covid-19 pandemic, many NHS providers have moved services online at astonishing pace. Ben Collins looks at four digital innovations in health services from the UK and the Nordic countries.
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By Ben Collins - 3 August 2020
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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
Workforce race inequalities and inclusion in NHS providers
Report

Workforce race inequalities and inclusion in NHS providers

Despite having a diverse workforce, ethnic minority staff in the NHS continue to experience worse levels of bullying and a lack of opportunities for career progression. This report looks at how three NHS providers are working to better support staff and address these inequalities.
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By Shilpa Ross et al - 7 July 2020
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GP funding and contracts explained

This explainer sets out how general practices are contracted and paid in England, looking at the services they are contracted to deliver, and the different streams of funding they receive.
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By Jake Beech et al - 11 June 2020 9-minute read
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Integrated care systems explained: making sense of systems, places and neighbourhoods

Integrated care services represent a fundamental shift in the way the health and care system is organised. This explainer looks at how these bodies are structured and the progress made before the Covid-19 (coronavirus) outbreak took hold.
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By Anna Charles - 8 April 2020
First 100 days of new government
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Health and care: the first 100 days of the new government

We provide a record of the progress made towards meeting the government’s manifesto pledges and campaign commitments during its first 100 days in office.
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By Jonathon Holmes - 27 March 2020
Delivering health and care for people who sleep rough: going above and beyond
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Delivering health and care for people who sleep rough: going above and beyond

People who sleep rough have some of the worst health outcomes in England. We explore how four local areas are delivering effective health and care services to people sleeping rough and what other areas might be able to learn from them.
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By Julia Cream et al - 3 March 2020
What are health inequalities?
Long read

What are health inequalities?

This explainer provides an overview of how health inequalities are experienced in England’s population.
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By Ethan Williams et al - 18 February 2020
Article

GPs condemn new specifications for primary care networks

This article was first published on the BMJ website. General practices have been working together in primary care networks (PCNs) for more than a year, but now growing numbers of GPs are threatening to pull out of PCNs and the associated contract. Richard Murray explains how this situation has unfolded and suggests some potential solutions.
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By Richard Murray - 27 January 2020
Evidence and consultation

Network contract directed enhanced service: draft outline service specifications

The urgent action needed to stabilise general practice, by addressing workload and workforce issues, raises important questions around the timing, implementation and pace of these new service specifications even though the overall direction they set out is the right one.
17 January 2020
How to build effective teams in general practice
Long read

How to build effective teams in general practice

This guide draws on insights from our research, policy analysis and leadership practice to outline ways in which practices can create and sustain effective teams, as they come together to form primary care networks.
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By Beccy Baird et al - 9 January 2020
Long read

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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