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.

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 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.

This paper, authored by Rachael Addicott and Jenny Hiley, highlights the current barriers to commissioning personalised, integrated services for end of life.

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.

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.