Publications

This report looks at experiences so far in the areas of England working on delivering enhanced health in care homes.

This report argues that new care models and vanguards need to make more of opportunities to improve care through integrated approaches to mental health.

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.

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.

The King's Fund worked with Centre for Mental Health, Royal College of Psychiatrists and NHS Confederation's Mental Health Network to explore how mental health services could be delivered in a different and more cost-effective way.

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.

Choosing a high-quality hospital explores how information can help patients to make informed choices. It is based on a research study, which began with a series of focus group discussions, the results of which informed the design of an online experiment.

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.

This paper, the first in a series of WSDAN briefing papers, looks at how telehealth and telecare innovations are being used in health and social care.

This report from The King's Fund is aimed at those responsible for commissioning and organising end-of-life care services at a local level.

For adult social care, the Spending Review settlement is about as good as it could get. It promises allocates £2 billion a year of additional funding by 2014-15 to support social care, £1b of which sits within the NHS.

This report captures the content of a conference held by The King's Fund to assess the involvement of the NHS in the Total Place programme.

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

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.

The report assesses how much progress the NHS has made in the following eight areas: access, safety, health promotion and management of long-term conditions, clinical effectiveness, patient experience, equity, efficiency and accountability.

This report on social care proposes new, fairer funding arrangements, a review of the current settlement for older people and reforms to the benefits system.

The next stage of our Choice at the End of Life programme, this report comments on issues raised at a summit on delivering high-quality, end-of-life care.

Reports back on the lessons learned from three assertive outreach projects set up to help people with severe and long-term mental health problems in some of London's most deprived communities.