Publications

Our submission highlights some of the key pressures and challenges the social care sector is facing and sets out some reforms the government could make to address these issues.

The urgent action needed to stabilise general practice, by addressing workload and workforce issues, raises important questions around the timing, implementation and pace of these new service specifications even though the overall direction they set out is the right one.

Our response to this Inquiry concludes that the future of general practice rests on a combination of investment and reform.

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: 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 paper responds to the Health Select Committee's inquiry into the future of social care funding and the case for major reform of the existing system.

This briefing sets out how general practice is organised, contracted and financed; analyses the impact of recent government policy; and looks at future trends.

Teresa Poole sets out how adult social care is currently funded, outlines some of the main criticisms of the current arrangements and describes the types of changes the government might consider for its reform.