Publications

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

New models of care have been introduced by the NHS five year forward view, but where do commissioners fit in?

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.

Our report calls for fundamental changes to how health services are commissioned, paid for and regulated to deliver the vision of the NHS five year forward view.

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.

Written halfway through the 2010–2015 parliament, this review considers how the NHS is performing under the coalition government, following on from The King’s Fund’s major review of NHS performance from 1997 to 2010.

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

One of the principal aims of England’s Health and Social Care Act 2012 is to distance politicians from the day to day management of the NHS. This aim is being pursued by the creation of the NHS Commissioning Board, which will take responsibility for allocating resources to clinical commissioning groups and commissioning some services directly.

Chris Naylor summarises our ten priorities for commissioners, describing ten areas in which action will be needed to secure a sustainable health system.

Dr Michelle Drage and Chris Naylor recommend ways referral management findings from London can influence future commissioning.

Our report, published jointly with Centre for Mental Health, reviews the evidence on the interaction between mental health and long-term physical health conditions and offers examples of innovative practice to combat the problems associated with co-existing conditions.

With authorisation starting in October 2012, Chris Naylor asks how ready are the CCGs to take over the mantle of primary care commissioning.

We talked to some GPs about the challenges of leading change and our whole systems approach to help with clinical commissioning.