Publications

We set out our thoughts on the Communities and Local Government Committee inquiry on the role of local authorities in health issues.

This document sets out our thoughts on the Department of Health’s consultation on the draft mandate for the National Health Service Commissioning Board.

This document sets out our thoughts on the Department of Health’s consultation: Liberating the NHS: No decision about me, without me.

Our data briefing looks at patterns of admissions for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions and assesses how emergency admissions could be reduced.

In this briefing for the Debate in the House of Commons, we set out our thoughts on the future of social care, the Dilnot Commission and how the integration of health and social care could be implemented.

This briefing focuses on the implications of the Health and Social Care Bill for service reconfigurations and for the failure regime for providers that are financially unsustainable.

This report from The King's Fund and Nuffield Trust is intended to support the Department of Health's development of a national strategy on integrated health and social care.

This response welcomes plans for an NHS constitution as a potentially viable way of providing clarity on the purpose of the NHS.

This paper is a response to the Health Select Committee's inquiry, conducted by Professor Mike Richards, into the consequences of additional private drugs for NHS care.

In this briefing, John Appleby and Ruth Thorlby explore the early years of the NHS and look forward to what we might encounter in the next 60 years.

This paper responds to the Department of Health consultation on the framework for the registration of health and adult social care providers.

John Appleby and Ruth Thorlby consider the issues surrounding waiting times in the NHS, from the 1950s up to the present day.

John Appleby and Ruth Thorlby explain how setting NHS budgets has always been problematic.

Patient choice has been a major theme of the Labour government's public sector modernisation programme. This briefing looks at the development of reforms to give patients a choice of provider for their planned hospital care.

This paper responds to a report on medical regulation, 'Good Doctors, Safer Patients' and the review by the Department of Health on the regulation of non-medical health care professions.

This paper is a formal response to the Health Select Committee's inquiry on NHS deficits in June 2006, which revealed a gross deficit of £1.277 billion.

A formal response to the Health Select Committee's consultation on co-payments and charges in the NHS, including whether charges for some services are equitable and appropriate.

Our response to the Health Select Committee's inquiry into potential changes to primary care trusts' functions and numbers arising from the Department of Health document, 'Commissioning a Patient-led NHS'.

This paper responds to the government's White Paper that aims to redesign community health and social care services.

This paper is a response to the Department of Health's review of the regulatory framework for the health and social care sector.