Publications

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.

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

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.

Using data for more than 8,000 general practices in England, this paper examines the association between patients’ perceptions about the non-clinical aspects of care and practice performance on measures of clinical quality.

This paper explores how the current health and social care delivery system has failed to keep pace with the population's needs and expectations.

With the Francis Inquiry report due in the autumn, we set out our views on how the system of quality assurance needs to evolve and how it should operate.

The topline results and satisfaction trends relating to the NHS and health care issues from the British Social Attitudes survey 2011.

Our paper calls for doctors to aspire to the same standards of excellence in diagnosing patients' preferences for their care as they do to diagnosing disease.

The second Richmond Group report is intended to offer a clear strategic direction to achieve transformational change in the health and social care system.

This paper focuses on those aged 70 years and older with multiple health problems and explores how continuity of care affects them and the people closest to them.

Our report, published jointly with Centre for Mental Health, reviews the evidence on the interaction between mental health and long-term physical health conditions and offers examples of innovative practice to combat the problems associated with co-existing conditions.

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?

Describing projects in 19 NHS trusts and one HM prison that took part in schemes to improve the environment of care at the end of life, this publication celebrates the completion of the latest phase of the Enhancing the Healing Environment programme.

The government wants to place patients' needs and wishes at the heart of clinical decision-making. Angela Coulter and Alf Collins give evidence for the benefits of shared decision-making and practical support in implementing it for clinicians.

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.

We look at London's care market, examining trends in its population profile and in the resources and services available for older people in our paper.

How many people in England and Wales could become subject to community treatment orders if the draft Mental Health Bill 2004 becomes law?