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Patients' experience of using hospital services: An analysis of trends in inpatient surveys in NHS acute trusts in England 2005-13

Our report looks at the data from inpatient surveys over a nine-year period and discusses what the data tells us about the national picture of care in the NHS and what it reveals about trends for individual trusts over time.
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By Veena Raleigh et al - 10 December 2015
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Place-based systems of care: A way forward for the NHS in England

Our report looks at how NHS organisations can move towards place-based systems of care, in which NHS organisations and services work together to address the challenges they collectively face. The report suggests 10 principles to guide the development of such systems.
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By Professor Sir Chris Ham et al - 12 November 2015
Article

CQC's State of Care is both reassuring and disturbing

The Care Quality Commission's State of Care report has both reassuring and disturbing messages: reassuring in that the majority of services are good, but disturbing in that there is significant variation in quality and particularly safety.
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By Michael West - 20 October 2015
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Measuring the performance of local health systems: A review for the Department of Health

Commissioned by the Department of Health, our review looks at how to assess the performance of health services within CCG areas, including how well these services work with social care and public health services.
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By Professor Sir Chris Ham et al - 12 October 2015
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Inequalities in life expectancy: Changes over time and implications for policy

This report from David Buck and David Maguire explores how the relationship between income deprivation and life expectancy has changed over time and looks at the impact of other variables such as employment, housing deprivation, binge drinking and diet.
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By David Buck et al - 11 August 2015
Article

The NHS needs a Transformation Fund

Now, more than ever, we need a new, comprehensive approach to supporting and implementing change, say Richard Murray and Anita Charlesworth.
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By Richard Murray et al - 23 July 2015
Article

The health inequality challenge

With the right local leadership and central government support, localism could help address the broad range of factors that drive health inequalities in a particular area, writes David Buck.
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By David Buck - 14 July 2015
Article

Leading the technology revolution

We speak to Tim Kelsey, National Director for Patients and Information at NHS England, about the role of technology in improving care.
24 June 2015
Report

Transforming our health care system: Ten priorities for commissioners

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.
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By Chris Naylor et al - 19 June 2015
Article

Learn how to improve population health with patient data

The experience of Blue Cross and Blue Shield in the US offers lessons for the NHS about some of the ingredients needed to improve population health, says Hugh Alderwick.
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By Hugh Alderwick - 27 May 2015
Article

Dementia: a carer’s perspective

We speak to writer Nicci Gerrard about her father's hospital care, and her campaign – John's Campaign – that calls for the families and carers of people with dementia to be allowed to remain with them in hospital for as many hours of the day and night as necessary.
22 May 2015
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The practice of system leadership: Being comfortable with chaos

This report draws on the experiences of 10 senior leaders to look in depth at the skills needed to be a system leader. The 10 individuals are from different backgrounds and work in different contexts, and give some very candid reflections on their successes and failures.
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By Nicholas Timmins - 20 May 2015
Article

The NHS needs system leadership

If Florence Nightingale worked for the NHS of today, she would be looking outwards to find people to make her wards work better. These people would be system leaders, not just strong leaders of single organisations, says Nick Timmins.
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By Nicholas Timmins - 20 May 2015
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Current NHS support is not enough, we need a transformation fund

The NHS needs a new transformation fund to support the kind of large scale change required by the NHS five year forward view, argue Anita Charlesworth and Richard Murray.
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By Richard Murray et al - 2 April 2015
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Local Healthwatch: progress and promise

The Department of Health commissioned The King's Fund to review the progress made by local Healthwatch. This report identifies the positive steps that could be taken across the system to enable a high-performing and effective local Healthwatch network.
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By Helen Gilburt et al - 26 March 2015
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Population health systems: going beyond integrated care

This paper aims to challenge those involved in integrated care and public health to join up the dots, seeing integrated care as part of a broader shift away from fragmentation towards an approach focused on improving population health.
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By Hugh Alderwick et al - 23 February 2015
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The future is now

Featuring the voices of patients, volunteers, clinicians and managers, our new digital report explores future ways of changing health and health care for the better.
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By Professor Sir Chris Ham et al - 10 February 2015
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Public satisfaction with the NHS in 2014

The results and satisfaction trends relating to the NHS and health care issues from the British Social Attitudes survey 2014.
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By John Appleby et al - 29 January 2015
Report

Risk or reward? The changing role of CCGs in general practice

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.
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By Ruth Robertson et al - 26 January 2015
Article

When delivering treatment is not enough

How can patients be encouraged to participate in their own care? And just what does it mean to be an empowered patient?
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By Helen Gilburt - 9 January 2015
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