Publications

An independent report giving fresh analysis of the challenges faced by general practice in London, and the improvements that will be needed to address them.

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.

Using data for more than 8,000 general practices in England, this paper examines the association between patients’ perceptions about the non-clinical aspects of care and practice performance on measures of clinical quality.

This paper explores how the current health and social care delivery system has failed to keep pace with the population's needs and expectations.

This paper explores factors that might be driving the significant variation in use of hospital beds by patients over 65 admitted as an emergency.

Local voluntary organisations bring value to health care – but now they need to demonstrate how, says Lisa Weaks.

John Appleby and Nicola Hartley discuss how the NHS can respond to the productivity challenge in our exclusive interview from Insight magazine.

Charities can have an enormous impact on health in their communities, writes Lisa Weaks, but clinical commissioning groups are proving hard to reach.

Our data briefing looks at patterns of admissions for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions and assesses how emergency admissions could be reduced.

Constructive dialogue between GPs as providers and commissioners, and all other providers of care must be the way forward, says Chris Ham.

With authorisation starting in October 2012, Chris Naylor asks how ready are the CCGs to take over the mantle of primary care commissioning.

We talked to some GPs about the challenges of leading change and our whole systems approach to help with clinical commissioning.

How successfully are trusts implementing service-line management? This paper considers what helps and what hinders this way of working and the potential benefits of using this approach.

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.

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.