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Article

Quality in a cold climate: is the NHS on course?

Anna Dixon questions whether the Outcomes Framework offers a coherent guide to help steer the health service through the more difficult financial times ahead.
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By Anna Dixon - 16 December 2008
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Practice-based commissioning: Reinvigorate, replace or abandon?

Through in-depth interviews with GPs, hospital and primary care trust staff in four sites, this report assesses the progress of practice-based commissioning (PBC) and identifies the barriers that are limiting success.
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By Nick Goodwin et al - 20 November 2008
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Briefing: High Quality Care for All: the NHS Next Stage Review final report

This briefing provides The King's Fund's analysis of the key themes explored in High Quality Care For All, the final report from Lord Darzi's NHS Next Stage Review.
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By Jo Maybin et al - 16 July 2008
Evidence and consultation

Briefing: Celebrating the NHS at 60

In this briefing, John Appleby and Ruth Thorlby explore the early years of the NHS and look forward to what we might encounter in the next 60 years.
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By John Appleby et al - 4 July 2008
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Visions for care in strategic health authorities

As part of Lord Darzi's review of the NHS, each strategic health authority (SHA) outside London was commissioned to produce a report outlining their 'vision' for care in their region in the next decade.
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By Jo Maybin et al - 1 July 2008
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Shifting the Balance of Health Care to Local Settings: The SeeSaw report

The Department of Health commissioned The King's Fund and Loop2 to undertake a simulation-based project to consider the shift in the balance of care from hospital to community settings.
By Sarah Harvey et al - 19 June 2008
Report

Understanding Doctors: Harnessing professionalism

Presents the views of doctors and other health professionals on the many challenges to their roles, the way they practise and the nature of their professionalism.
By Ros Levenson et al - 7 May 2008
Report

Background to the NHS Next Stage Review

This briefing provides the background of the review and asks what the final report might recommend.
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By Jo Maybin - 3 May 2008
Evidence and consultation

Data briefing: Waiting times are just so...1950s

John Appleby and Ruth Thorlby consider the issues surrounding waiting times in the NHS, from the 1950s up to the present day.
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By John Appleby et al - 10 April 2008
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Patient choice in general practice: the implications of patient satisfaction surveys

Ruth Robertson, Anna Dixon and Julian Le Grand consider the factors that explain patient satisfaction with general practice physicians and how this may drive patients' choice of practice.
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By Anna Dixon et al - 2 April 2008
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