Publications

Download The King's Fund submission to the VCSE Review’s discussion paper on challenges and solutions to better investment in and partnership with the VCSE Review.

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.

This briefing paper looks at mental health as a system of care, examining individual pressures within the wider context of provider and commissioner actions.

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.

Is enough emphasis and thought devoted to leadership styles, the culture this creates and whether this fully reflects the organisation’s aims and ethos?

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

The value of the work the voluntary and charitable sector does in communities across the UK is often overlooked, says Lisa Weaks.

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.

This briefing focuses on the Mental Health Act 2007 and its policies in relation to England.

How can technology be used to improve care for patients? This report gives examples of how technology could be used and suggests ways to overcome the obstacles to its adoption.

How can we encourage patients to become more engaged in their own health care and what impact will that have on the NHS? This report presents discussions from an expert seminar.

The Department of Health commissioned The King's Fund and Loop2 to undertake a simulation-based project to consider the shift in the balance of care from hospital to community settings.

This report asks whether the polyclinic model will improve the quality and accessibility of health care and deliver cost savings and integrated care.

This report suggests that without the right level and type of investment into mental health care we will all pay the price – not just in wasted resources but also in wasted lives.

Funding the Practice of Learning is an evaluation of the Partners for Health programme, exploring the experiences of those who applied for funding from the point of application, through the recruitment process and into the programme itself.

In January 2006 the Department of Health published 'Our health, our care, our say: A new direction for community services'. This briefing outlines the main policies.

One of the most controversial proposals in the government's Mental Health Bill is the introduction of supervised community treatment (SCT). This briefing explores some of the surrounding issues and the available evidence on the likely effect of SCT.

Article reporting on The King's Fund research into how primary schools are supporting children with emotional and behavioural needs.

Simon Lawton-Smith argues that Scotland's experience of compulsory community treatment orders provides some useful pointers for the forthcoming Mental Health (Amendment) Act in England and Wales.

What impact have community-based compulsory treatment orders had in the first six months since they were introduced in Scotland, and what lessons can England and Wales learn from this experience?