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Healthy places podcast
Report

Creating healthy places: perspectives from NHS England’s Healthy New Towns programme

Creating healthy places: perspectives from NHS England’s Healthy New Towns programme provides personal insights from those involved in the programme, illustrating how powerful a coherent local approach to improving population health can be.
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By Chris Naylor - 26 September 2019
Long read

The NHS long-term plan explained

On 7 January, the NHS long-term plan was published setting out key ambitions for the service over the next 10 years. In this explainer, we set out the main commitments in the plan and provide our view of what they might mean, highlighting the opportunities and challenges for the health and care system as it moves to put the plan into practice.
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By Anna Charles et al - 23 January 2019
Report

Quality improvement in mental health

Quality improvement has a role to play in improving the quality of care in mental health services. Our report looks at what organisations need to do to implement a quality improvement approach effectively and the benefits this can bring.
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By Shilpa Ross et al - 20 July 2017
Evidence and consultation

Advancing our health: prevention in the 2020s consultation

Our response to the government's consultation paper on prevention focuses on the additional areas we would like future government policy to cover.
14 October 2019
Article

Life expectancy in England: what's going on?

The latest life expectancy data from the Office for National Statistics doesn't provide much to celebrate, as Veena Raleigh's explains in her latest article for the BMJ.
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By Veena Raleigh et al - 1 October 2019
Healthy places podcast
Report

Creating healthy places: perspectives from NHS England’s Healthy New Towns programme

Creating healthy places: perspectives from NHS England’s Healthy New Towns programme provides personal insights from those involved in the programme, illustrating how powerful a coherent local approach to improving population health can be.
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By Chris Naylor - 26 September 2019
Report

Clicks and mortar: Technology and the NHS estate

Financial pressures and growing demand mean that health and social care services will need to work differently. This report reviews how technology in the NHS estate is currently being used, and imagines how the 'estate of the future' might look.
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By Lillie Wenzel et al - 21 May 2019
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Outcomes for mental health services: what really matters?

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.
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By Ben Collins - 27 March 2019
Long read

The NHS long-term plan explained

On 7 January, the NHS long-term plan was published setting out key ambitions for the service over the next 10 years. In this explainer, we set out the main commitments in the plan and provide our view of what they might mean, highlighting the opportunities and challenges for the health and care system as it moves to put the plan into practice.
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By Anna Charles et al - 23 January 2019
Evidence and consultation

The King’s Fund response to the Mayor of London’s draft health inequalities strategy

We find that the draft strategy is a good start, but we believe as it is finalised its commitments need to be more tightly focused on inequality reduction than they currently are.
1 December 2017
Article

Talking leadership: transforming mental health services

Mandip Randhawa writes about the challenges of transforming mental health services for children and young people.
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By Mandip Randhawa - 29 November 2017
Report

Quality improvement in mental health

Quality improvement has a role to play in improving the quality of care in mental health services. Our report looks at what organisations need to do to implement a quality improvement approach effectively and the benefits this can bring.
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By Shilpa Ross et al - 20 July 2017
Article

Helen Arthur on learning from technological innovation in the vanguards

Ahead of our Digital Health and Care Congress in July, we speak to Helen Arthur about how the vanguards are applying technology and what other areas can learn from them.
8 June 2017
Article

Is there ‘parity of esteem’ between mental and physical health? big election questions

Ahead of the general election, we consider whether there is parity of esteem between mental and physical health.
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By Chris Naylor - 19 May 2017
Report

Mental health and new models of care: lessons from the vanguards

This report argues that new care models and vanguards need to make more of opportunities to improve care through integrated approaches to mental health.
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By Chris Naylor et al - 18 May 2017
9 principles of success: mental health in the vanguards
Article

Nine principles for success: integrating mental health in new models of care

We identify nine key principles for successful integration of mental health in new models of care.
18 May 2017
Article

Online support: investigating the role of public online forums in mental health

This report explores whether machine learning can help find wider meaning in millions of unstructured online conversations about mental health.
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By David Buck et al - 13 April 2017
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
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
Report

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 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
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