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Health and Social Care Committee workforce inquiry: recruitment, training and retention in health and social care

The 2019 Conservative Party manifesto included pledges to deliver 50,000 more nurses, 6,000 GPs and 6,000 other primary care professionals. Two years on, no plan to address workforce shortages has been published, funding for the training and development of staff was conspicuous by its absence from the Spending Review and the measures in the Bill relating to workforce remain weak.
6 April 2022 15-minute read
Evidence and consultation

Submission to the Health and Social Care Select Committee inquiry into the future of general practice

Our submission to the Health and Social Care Select Committee inquiry into the future of general practice focuses on the main barriers to accessing general practice, and the changes needed to the current model to tackle these and put general practice on a more sustainable footing for the future.
6 April 2022 15-minute read
Evidence and consultation

Health and Care Bill briefing: consideration of amendments

The King’s Fund supports the main thrust of the Health and Care Bill which will remove clunky competition rules and enable greater collaboration between health and care organisations to deliver integrated care. This briefing focuses on three key improvements to the Bill made in the House of Lords.
23 March 2022
Evidence and consultation

Briefing on the Health and Care Bill: House of Lords Report stage

The King’s Fund supports the main thrust of the Health and Care Bill which will remove clunky competition rules and enable greater collaboration between health and care organisations to deliver integrated care. However, there are aspects of the Bill that we believe should be changed.
25 February 2022
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Briefing on the Health and Care Bill: House of Lords Committee stage

This briefing focuses on Parts 1 and 6 of the Bill, which deal with the NHS and its relationships to other parts of the system, including the powers of the Secretary of State, plus changes to the cap on social care costs.
7 January 2022
Evidence and consultation

The role of local authorities in health issues: Consultation response

We set out our thoughts on the Communities and Local Government Committee inquiry on the role of local authorities in health issues.
18 October 2012
Evidence and consultation

Consultation response: Draft mandate for the National Health Service Commissioning Board

This document sets out our thoughts on the Department of Health’s consultation on the draft mandate for the National Health Service Commissioning Board.
27 September 2012
Evidence and consultation

Consultation response: Liberating the NHS: No decision about me, without me

This document sets out our thoughts on the Department of Health’s consultation: Liberating the NHS: No decision about me, without me.
30 August 2012
Evidence and consultation

Debate in the House of Commons - the future of social care: Briefing

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.
8 March 2012
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Briefing: The Health and Social Care Bill: Report stage in the House of Lords - service reconfiguration and the failure regime

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.
27 February 2012
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Integrated care for patients and populations: Improving outcomes by working together: A report to the Department of Health and the NHS Future Forum

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.
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By Claire Perry et al - 5 January 2012
Evidence and consultation

Department of Health consultation on an NHS constitution: Consultation response

This response welcomes plans for an NHS constitution as a potentially viable way of providing clarity on the purpose of the NHS.
17 October 2008
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Health Select Committee's inquiry into the purchase of additional drugs by NHS patients (top-up fees) Consultation response

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.
11 September 2008
Evidence and consultation

Briefing: Celebrating the NHS at 60

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.
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By John Appleby et al - 4 July 2008
Evidence and consultation

Consultation response: the future regulation of health and adult social care in England

This paper responds to the Department of Health consultation on the framework for the registration of health and adult social care providers.
17 June 2008
Evidence and consultation

Data briefing: Waiting times are just so...1950s

John Appleby and Ruth Thorlby consider the issues surrounding waiting times in the NHS, from the 1950s up to the present day.
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By John Appleby et al - 10 April 2008
Evidence and consultation

Data briefing: why NHS budgets have always been a bugbear

John Appleby and Ruth Thorlby explain how setting NHS budgets has always been problematic.
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By John Appleby et al - 14 February 2008
Evidence and consultation

Briefing: Patient choice

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.
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By Ruth Robertson et al - 29 January 2008
Evidence and consultation

Public consultation on proposals for change to health care professional regulation: Consultation response

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.
10 November 2006
Evidence and consultation

Health Select Committee NHS deficits inquiry: Consultation response

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.
9 June 2006
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