Publications

In order to successfully reduce avoidable emergency admissions, we need to fully understand which interventions are the most effective. The King's Fund commissioned this review of research evidence to establish which interventions work in avoiding emergency or unplanned hospital admissions.

Contributed to by key health sector figures and commentators, this publication provides information on key health policy agenda priorities and how they can be addressed and advanced in the coming years.

Note prepared for the Health Select Committee Inquiry into public expenditure, giving an estimate of the future social care funding gap following the Spending Review 2010.

This paper offers a snapshot of health professionals' views and raises key issues for further debate, as part of our work on the quality of general practice in England.

An overview of the Big Society and what it means for health care in England, this briefing raises a number of questions and issues, including nudging to improve public health, community empowerment and patient power.

The King's Fund and Doctors.net.uk have commissioned a survey to find out how doctors feel about the plans set out in the coalition government's health White Paper.

This article is the collective effort of ten of the leading health and social care organisations in the voluntary sector to identify the five key themes that the health and social care system must embrace to be sustainable and to ensure quality.

Our report provides practical advice to those seeking to influence GP referrals. It draws on the current literature and new qualitative and quantitative research.

Building on a previous analysis produced in association with the Institute for Fiscal Studies, this paper examines the gap between the likely available funding and the level of funding required to achieve the progress projected by Sir Derek Wanless in his 2002 report for the Treasury.

Giving GPs budgets for commissioning: What needs to be done is a joint publication from Nuffield Trust, The King's Fund, NHS Confederation, NHS Alliance, National Association of Primary Care, and Royal College of General Practitioners.

This briefing was released prior to the emergency budget on Tuesday 22 June 2010.

This paper compares the implementation of electronic referral systems in England ('Choose and Book') and in a region of the Netherlands ('ZorgDomein').

A formal response to the Department of Health's draft guidance on proposals for regulation and guidance in relation to the draft legislation on personal care at home.