Publications

It has become received wisdom that the NHS struggles to adopt digital innovation, but during the Covid-19 pandemic, many NHS providers have moved services online at astonishing pace. Ben Collins looks at four digital innovations in health services from the UK and the Nordic countries.

This report was commissioned by the National Association of Primary Care (NAPC) and explores the factors that contributed to the spread of the primary care home.

Commissioned by the Office for Civil Society, this report explores the role and value of volunteering within ambulance services in England and identifies examples of different ways in which volunteering opportunities are being developed.

This commissioned report explores how the work of the National Garden Scheme and its beneficiaries contributes to supporting and shaping health and care.

Our commissioned report considers what it is like for clinicians and managers to try to provide truly holistic health and social care for people at home, using small self-managing neighbourhood teams.

An independent commissioned report, Outcomes for mental health services, considers the difficulties in measuring outcomes in mental health services, and calls for consensus between health care professionals and service users on what outcomes actually matter.

Written for the NAPC and KPMG, this introductory guide to good governance for clinical commissioning groups aims to help them take their first steps towards authorisation.

This paper on the Schwartz Center Rounds® draws together three types of evaluation: the feedback from participants after each Round; a pre- and post-pilot survey (first year of Rounds) completed by Rounds participants; and qualitative interviews with key members of staff in both trusts.

The National Institute for Health Research Service Delivery and Organisation programme commissioned The King's Fund, together with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, to explore the impact of the QOF on public health and health inequalities.

The NHS regularly measures and monitors aspects of its performance. If it started routinely measuring patients' health-related quality-of-life outcomes too, what would be the benefits?