Publications

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

This paper encourages organisations to adopt a holistic talent management and succession planning strategy and guides NHS boards and leaders through the steps needed for this.

This report look at past experience with NHS workforce planning and the challenges facing workforce planning in the future, in the light of changing health care needs and the need to deliver the future care models outlines in the NHS five year forward view. The report focuses on three areas key to providing integrated care: mental health, primary care and community nursing.

This paper encourages NHS boards and other leaders to focus on staff engagement and suggests six building blocks for ensuring a highly engaged workforce.

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 considers the degree to which NHS workforce planning in England is likely to support the delivery of a workforce that is fit for the future. To inform this assessment, we examine current developments at national and regional level.

This report examines the state of practice-based commissioning two years after a 2007 survey by The King's Fund and NHS Alliance found primary care trusts were struggling with implementation.

A programme of work in partnership with the Burdett Trust for Nursing explores the role of nurse executives in helping boards to engage with clinical quality issues.

The King's Fund and Commonwealth Fund sponsored a seminar bringing together leading policymakers, clinicians and academics from England and the USA to share experiences.

Has Agenda for Change achieved its ambitious objectives of reforming pay, developing new ways of working and delivering better care? Using key national informants and case studies in 10 NHS trusts, this paper assesses the implementation.

Despite receiving widespread support, implementation of practice-based commissioning (PBC) has been slow. This report explores the current situation for PBC and considers how it might be driven forward within the NHS.

This qualitative study explores GPs' views on their role in supporting patient choice at the point of referral, their views on Choose and Book and equity in choice.

How will primary care be affected by the changing role of primary care trusts and the introduction of both practice-based commissioning and competition between providers?

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.

Explores the experiences and aspirations of 380 international nurses working in London, and gives an overview of trends and policy on international recruitment.

We review patients' perceptions about managing their own long-term conditions, and identify how primary care trusts and other health and social care providers can best support them in line with their individual needs.

Our briefing exposes major shortcomings in the current care system for older people in London and recommends ways to address them.

Does a mixed economy work in providing care to Londoners? This paper from The King's Fund recommends how policy and practice should develop in this area.

This paper looks at how incentives in the health system could bring about a shift in focus, to encourage NHS managers to focus on wider public health issues.