Publications

This report highlights the particular challenges that health care organisations in London face and suggests ways to facilitate appropriate service change.

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.

Our third quarterly monitoring report provides a regular update on how the NHS is coping as it grapples with the evolving reform agenda as well as the more significant challenge of making radical improvements in productivity.

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?

Understanding New Labour's Market Reforms of the English NHS, a new book from The King's Fund, asks what lessons can be learned for current and future reforms?

The government is committed to the development of social enterprises to deliver health and social care. But will these new organisations and their leaders have the necessary skills to manage the risks and establish themselves as viable organisations in an increasingly competitive market?

In the second of our quarterly monitoring reports, John Appleby and Emmi Poteliakhoff examine the current state of the NHS.

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.

What role will the voluntary and community sector play in health and social care if the government's proposed reforms go ahead? This report discusses the opportunities for the sector, but also addresses the risks it may face.

This supporting paper reviews recent developments in leadership, using the Warwick 6 C Leadership Framework to organise the evidence.

This monitoring report is the first of a regular quarterly review, which will combine publicly available data on selected NHS performance measures with views from a panel of finance directors on the key issues their organisations are facing.

This report explores the possible causes of variation and ways in which variations can be measured, and analyses variations in rates of elective hospital admissions.

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.

Reconfiguring hospital services offers a timely and sobering contribution to the emerging debate on how service and organisational change should be taken forward across the NHS in England.