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Healthy places podcast
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Creating healthy places: perspectives from NHS England’s Healthy New Towns programme

Creating healthy places: perspectives from NHS England’s Healthy New Towns programme provides personal insights from those involved in the programme, illustrating how powerful a coherent local approach to improving population health can be.
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By Chris Naylor - 26 September 2019
Closing the gap: Key areas for action on the health and care workforce
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Closing the gap: key areas for action on the health and care workforce

Staffing is the make-or-break issue for the NHS in England. In this joint report with the Nuffield Trust and the Health Foundation, we set out the policy actions that need to be at the heart of the workforce implementation plan due to be published later this year.
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By Jake Beech et al - 21 March 2019
Public satisfaction with the NHS and social care in 2018
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Public satisfaction with the NHS and social care in 2018: Results from the British Social Attitudes survey

Public satisfaction with the NHS overall continued to fall in 2018. Overall satisfaction was 53 per cent – a 3 percentage point drop from the previous year and the lowest level since 2007.
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By Ruth Robertson et al - 7 March 2019
Healthy places podcast
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Creating healthy places: perspectives from NHS England’s Healthy New Towns programme

Creating healthy places: perspectives from NHS England’s Healthy New Towns programme provides personal insights from those involved in the programme, illustrating how powerful a coherent local approach to improving population health can be.
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By Chris Naylor - 26 September 2019
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How is the NHS performing? July 2019 quarterly monitoring report

This is the 28th QMR, which takes stock of what has happened over the past few months with NHS financial and operational performance in England.
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By Siva Anandaciva et al - 9 July 2019
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Clicks and mortar: Technology and the NHS estate

Financial pressures and growing demand mean that health and social care services will need to work differently. This report reviews how technology in the NHS estate is currently being used, and imagines how the 'estate of the future' might look.
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By Lillie Wenzel et al - 21 May 2019
Closing the gap: Key areas for action on the health and care workforce
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Closing the gap: key areas for action on the health and care workforce

Staffing is the make-or-break issue for the NHS in England. In this joint report with the Nuffield Trust and the Health Foundation, we set out the policy actions that need to be at the heart of the workforce implementation plan due to be published later this year.
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By Jake Beech et al - 21 March 2019
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Payments and contracting for integrated care: The false promise of the self-improving health system

Why should the new payment systems being developed to support integrated care be any more successful than previous ones? This new report calls for urgent reform of the system for paying and contracting services in the NHS.
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By Ben Collins - 14 March 2019
Public satisfaction with the NHS and social care in 2018
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Public satisfaction with the NHS and social care in 2018: Results from the British Social Attitudes survey

Public satisfaction with the NHS overall continued to fall in 2018. Overall satisfaction was 53 per cent – a 3 percentage point drop from the previous year and the lowest level since 2007.
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By Ruth Robertson et al - 7 March 2019
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How is the NHS performing? November 2016: Quarterly Monitoring Report

The 21st quarterly monitoring report from The King's Fund provides an update on how the NHS is coping as it continues to grapple with productivity and reform challenges under continued financial pressure.
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By Richard Murray et al - 16 November 2016
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The Autumn Statement 2016: Joint statement on health and social care

In a joint briefing, The King's Fund, Nuffield Trust and The Health Foundation analyse the action the government needs to take in its Autumn Statement.
8 November 2016
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New care models: Emerging innovations in governance and organisational form

This report looks at the different approaches being taken by MCP and PACS vanguards to contracting, governance and other organisational infrastructure.
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By Ben Collins - 11 October 2016
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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
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A digital NHS? An introduction to the digital agenda and plans for implementation

In recent years, the digital agenda in health care has been the subject of an array of promises and plans. Following on from the Wachter review of health technology, our new briefing assesses the progress made and what needs to happen next.
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By Matthew Honeyman et al - 22 September 2016
Social care for older people
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Social care for older people: Home truths

This report looks at social care services for older people and the impact of cuts in local authority spending on social care providers and on older people, their families and carers.
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By Richard Humphries et al - 15 September 2016
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How is the NHS performing? September 2016: Quarterly Monitoring Report

The 20th quarterly monitoring report from The King's Fund provides an update on how the NHS is coping as it continues to grapple with productivity and reform challenges under continued financial pressure.
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By Richard Murray et al - 8 September 2016
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Understanding quality in district nursing services: Learning from patients, carers and staff

This report investigates what good district nursing care looks like and looks at the growing demand capacity gap in district nursing and the worrying impact that this is having on services, the workforce and the quality and safety of patient care.
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By Jo Maybin et al - 1 September 2016
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Clinical commissioning: GPs in charge?

What progress has been made around effective GP involvement in commissioning? This report from The King's Fund and the Nuffield Trust assesses what has been learnt so far and makes recommendations for the future.
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By Ruth Robertson et al - 12 July 2016
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Deficits in the NHS 2016

Our briefing explores deficits in the NHS, including a consideration of their underlying drivers and the strategies being employed to tackle them.
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By Phoebe Dunn et al - 11 July 2016
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Five big issues for health and social care after the Brexit vote

In the aftermath of the Brexit vote, we consider what lies ahead for health and social care, and the five big issues that will need to be considered.
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By Helen McKenna - 30 June 2016
Quarterly Monitoring Report
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How is the NHS performing? May 2016: Quarterly Monitoring Report

The latest quarterly monitoring report from The King's Fund finds that nearly two-thirds of NHS trusts and more than half of clinical commissioning groups say the quality of patient care in their area has deteriorated over the past year.
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By John Appleby et al - 19 May 2016
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Understanding pressures in general practice

Our report uses qualitative and quantitative data to assess the patient factors, system factors and supply-side issues driving the current pressures in general practice.
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By Beccy Baird et al - 5 May 2016
Integrating mental and physical health
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Bringing together physical and mental health: A new frontier for integrated care

Our report looks at the integration of physical and mental health. The authors discuss 10 areas that offer some of the biggest opportunities for improving quality and controlling costs.
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By Chris Naylor et al - 8 March 2016
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