Publications

The King's Fund has come together the Nuffield Trust and the Health Foundation to publish a briefing on the impact of the Spending Review on health and social care.

This briefing paper looks at mental health as a system of care, examining individual pressures within the wider context of provider and commissioner actions.

A statement from the Barker Commission to the Chancellor ahead of the Spending Review on the state of social care and its funding.

Health care commissioners will need to deliver a sustainable system in the face of the most challenging financial and organisational environment seen in decades. Here, we set out ten priorities for commissioners to help them drive forward the changes needed.

A report from the Nuffield Trust and The King’s Fund finds that CCGs risk becoming unsustainable without changes to the way they attract leaders and adequate funding to help them expand their remit.

This report describes a vision for the future of mental health provision in London, generated through a process of engagement with key stakeholders in the capital.

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.

The final report from the Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England.

The interim report from the independent Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England explains why England needs a single health and social care system, with a ring-fenced, singly commissioned budget, and more closely aligned entitlements.

This paper examines the transformation of mental health services in England and the relevance to current policy. Drawing on workshops with those involved in the changes and a review of published literature, the paper explores the context and factors that enabled change to happen in mental health.

This report synthesises evidence from seven integrated care case studies, and identifies lessons for policy-makers and service providers to help with the challenges ahead.

Announced by the government in the June 2013 spending round, the £3.8 billion Better Care Fund is a single pooled budget to support health and social care services to work more closely in local areas. Our evidence-based guide aims to aid the discussions between CCGs, local authorities and health and wellbeing boards as to how the grant is used.

This paper looks at the core components of a successful case management programme and considers how it can be used to deliver high-quality integrated care.

This paper, the third in a series of WSDAN briefing papers, examines the experiences of the network's 12 member sites in implementing telehealth and telecare.

Written by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) in conjunction with The King's Fund, this short briefing asks how can clinical commissioners secure best use of social care to maximise outcomes and improve patient experience, while ensuring efficient, affordable care into the future?

How can the health and social care system rise to the current political and financial challenges? This paper is based on the Routes project, a simulation exercise created by Loop2, which set up a number of routes to managing change.

Social care funding has increased in real terms for the past decade, but this paper examines the trends in spending and the potential funding gap of £1billion by 2014 unless councils can achieve unprecedented efficiency savings.

This paper includes examples from 2009/10 quality accounts that show how the content and the presentation of information can vary. Based on these examples, we make recommendations for providers when they are developing and writing a quality account.