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Report

The Spending Review – what does it mean for health and social care?

The King's Fund has come together the Nuffield Trust and the Health Foundation to publish a briefing on the impact of the Spending Review on health and social care.
17 December 2015
Report

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
Article

The worrying truth about mental health services

Lack of money is frequently highlighted as a key barrier to providing high quality care in mental health, with bed pressures, access to services and poor patient experience being associated with inadequate funding, writes Helen Gilburt.
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By Helen Gilburt - 12 November 2015
Report

Mental health under pressure

This briefing paper looks at mental health as a system of care, examining individual pressures within the wider context of provider and commissioner actions.
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By Helen Gilburt - 12 November 2015
Report

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
Report

Statement from the Barker Commission: The future of health and social care

A statement from the Barker Commission to the Chancellor ahead of the Spending Review on the state of social care and its funding.
8 November 2015
Article

Prioritising mental health

Good mental health isn’t just the absence of mental illness. It’s about how we cope with our lives – how we handle situations, relate to others and make choices.
8 October 2015
Evidence and consultation

Spending Review submission: health and social care funding: The short, medium and long-term outlook

The King's Fund's submission to the 2015 Spending Review argues that if the government is serious in its commitment to health and social care, it must ensure that adequate funds are available both in this parliament and longer term.
14 September 2015
Article

Integrated commissioning: Beyond Barker

The current fragmented system of commissioning is clearly unsustainable. While the idea of integrated commissioning is an old one, the approach to achieving it must be decidedly new, writes Lillie Wenzel.
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By Lillie Wenzel - 19 August 2015
Evidence and consultation

Briefing: The Budget - health and social care funding

The King's Fund's written briefing on health and social care funding in advance of the Budget, on 8 July 2015.
3 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

Integration with health could be staging post to devolved public service budgets

As the post-election dust settles, the Queen’s speech confirms that the integration of health and social care continues as a headline policy commitment, with the better care fund and ‘DevoManc’ as flagship policies intended to make this happen. But will they be enough?
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By Richard Humphries - 10 June 2015
Article

Integrated care must start with a new single national framework

Rather than prescribe a one size fits all solution, an approach agreed locally by CCGs and local authorities is the best way forward for integrated care, says Richard Humphries.
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By Richard Humphries - 9 June 2015
Report

Options for integrated commissioning Beyond Barker

With support for health and social care to have a single ring-fenced budget and a single local commissioner growing, this report looks at the options available for integrated commissioning.
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By Richard Humphries et al - 9 June 2015
Article

Mental health charities can help people where the NHS cannot

The value of the work the voluntary and charitable sector does in communities across the UK is often overlooked, says Lisa Weaks.
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By Lisa Weaks - 30 April 2015
Article

Commissioning in the spotlight

New models of care have been introduced by the NHS five year forward view, but where do commissioners fit in?
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By Ruth Robertson - 23 April 2015
Commissioned report

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
Report

Procurement and competition rules: Can the NHS be exempted?

In this briefing, The King’s Fund seeks to clarify whether a new government could extract the NHS from European Union procurement and competition rules.
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By Ben Collins - 18 March 2015
Article

Funding a future health and care service

Whilst there is now broad consensus across the political and policy firmament that integration is the right direction of travel, past progress and future prospects are beset with obstacles arising from differences in the organisation, funding, governance, accountability and modus operandi of the two systems.
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By Richard Humphries - 19 February 2015
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