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Report

The public and the NHS: what's the deal?

In March 2018 The King’s Fund and Ipsos MORI carried out a series of discussion events with the public to explore people's views on the relationship between the public and the NHS. This report sets out the findings.
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By Harry Evans et al - 25 June 2018
Report

What does the public think about the NHS?

As part of our project on the changing relationship between the NHS and the public, the Fund commissioned some initial polling from Ipsos MORI. The results are in.
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By Harry Evans et al - 16 September 2017
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
Commissioned report

Outcomes for mental health services: what really matters?

An independent commissioned report, Outcomes for mental health services, considers the difficulties in measuring outcomes in mental health services, and calls for consensus between health care professionals and service users on what outcomes actually matter.
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By Ben Collins - 27 March 2019
Report

The NHS at 70: Are we expecting too much from the NHS?

In this paper we explore the public’s expectations of the NHS, the balance between meeting those expectations and living within a constrained budget, and the question of who is responsible for keeping us healthy.
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By Helen McKenna - 27 June 2018
Report

Organising care at the NHS front line: who is responsible?

What are the challenges facing frontline clinicians today and what could they do to improve the quality of care? Our report presents a range of views from clinicians, managers, quality improvement champions and patients.
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By Professor Sir Chris Ham et al - 3 May 2017
Evidence and consultation

Self-sufficient local government: 100 per cent business rates retention: Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) consultation

The King's Fund's response to the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) consultation on self-sufficient local government.
20 October 2016
Report

User feedback in maternity services

Our report looks at how maternity services are collecting, analysing and acting on feedback to improve women's experience of maternity services.
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By Lillie Wenzel et al - 6 October 2016
Report

Patients' experience of using hospital services: An analysis of trends in inpatient surveys in NHS acute trusts in England 2005-13

Our report looks at the data from inpatient surveys over a nine-year period and discusses what the data tells us about the national picture of care in the NHS and what it reveals about trends for individual trusts over time.
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By Veena Raleigh et al - 10 December 2015
Report

Devolution: What it means for health and social care in England

This briefing describes the origins of devolution and explores key policy and implementation questions in relation to health and social care.
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By Helen McKenna et al - 11 November 2015
Article

Integration with health could be staging post to devolved public service budgets

As the post-election dust settles, the Queen’s speech confirms that the integration of health and social care continues as a headline policy commitment, with the better care fund and ‘DevoManc’ as flagship policies intended to make this happen. But will they be enough?
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By Richard Humphries - 10 June 2015
Article

English devolution: local solutions for a healthy nation

This publication was commissioned by the Local Government Association to capture the thoughts of councillors, directors of public health, providers, commissioners, academics and other key opinion formers on the challenges and opportunities devolution could bring in terms of improving the public's health. Read David Buck's chapter.
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By David Buck - 9 June 2015
Commissioned report

Local Healthwatch: progress and promise

The Department of Health commissioned The King's Fund to review the progress made by local Healthwatch. This report identifies the positive steps that could be taken across the system to enable a high-performing and effective local Healthwatch network.
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By Helen Gilburt et al - 26 March 2015
Report

Our priorities for the next government

With the general election coming at a pivotal time for health and social care, we set out our view of the key challenges and priorities for the next government.
16 September 2014
Report

Public satisfaction with the NHS and its services in 2013

We found no change in overall satisfaction with the NHS since 2011, although there have been changes in the public’s views on specific services.
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By John Appleby et al - 6 May 2014
Report

The four UK health systems: Learning from each other

This paper aims to probe what it sees as a woefully under-explored area: the differences between the United Kingdom's four separate health systems.
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By Nicholas Timmins - 13 June 2013
Article

Are 'family and friends tests' useful: agree, disagree, neither, don’t know?

Family and friends tests are an established method of obtaining feedback on performance for many private sector businesses. But how well is this sort of customer feedback suited to public services like the NHS?
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By John Appleby - 14 May 2013
Report

Developing supportive design for people with dementia: The King’s Fund’s Enhancing the Healing Environment Programme 2009-2012

Our publication marks the completion of 26 schemes in 23 NHS acute, community and mental health hospitals in England to improve the environment of care for people with dementia.
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By Sarah Waller CBE et al - 9 January 2013
Report

Producing patient information: How to research, develop and produce effective information resources

Our report offers health professionals advice on producing good-quality pateint information.
By Mark Duman - 1 January 2013
Article

Hospital Pathways programme: lessons learned

We describe the Hospital Pathways programme, the method used to evaluate it, what we learned about the approach, and how the lessons have influenced the Patient and Family-centred Care programme.
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By Bev Fitzsimons et al - 19 December 2012
Article

The Patient and Family-centred Care programme

We speak to Dr Joanne Watson about the Patient and Family-centred Care programme, run in association with the Health Foundation.
By Joanne Watson - 19 December 2012
Report

Health policy under the coalition government: A mid-term assessment

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.
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By Sarah Gregory et al - 28 November 2012
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