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Avoiding hospital admissions: What does the research evidence say?

In order to successfully reduce avoidable emergency admissions, we need to fully understand which interventions are the most effective. The King's Fund commissioned this review of research evidence to establish which interventions work in avoiding emergency or unplanned hospital admissions.
By Sarah Purdy - 16 December 2010
Article

Health policy priorities for Parliament

Contributed to by key health sector figures and commentators, this publication provides information on key health policy agenda priorities and how they can be addressed and advanced in the coming years.
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By Professor Sir Chris Ham et al - 2 December 2010
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Estimate of future social care funding gap following the Spending Review

Note prepared for the Health Select Committee Inquiry into public expenditure, giving an estimate of the future social care funding gap following the Spending Review 2010.
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By Richard Humphries et al - 24 November 2010
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Choosing a high-quality hospital: The role of nudges, scorecard design and information

Choosing a high-quality hospital explores how information can help patients to make informed choices. It is based on a research study, which began with a series of focus group discussions, the results of which informed the design of an online experiment.
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By Anna Dixon et al - 18 November 2010
Article

Enhancing the Healing Environment: Midlands NHS Trust case study

A new low secure unit was able to significantly reduce incidents of violence and aggression through implementing The King's Fund's Enhancing the Healing Environment programme.
By James Dooher et al - 30 October 2010
Article

Impact of the health White Paper: what do doctors think?

The King's Fund and Doctors.net.uk have commissioned a survey to find out how doctors feel about the plans set out in the coalition government's health White Paper.
25 October 2010
Report

The Spending Review and Social Care

For adult social care, the Spending Review settlement is about as good as it could get. It promises allocates £2 billion a year of additional funding by 2014-15 to support social care, £1b of which sits within the NHS.
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By Richard Humphries - 21 October 2010
Evidence and consultation

Response to Liberating the NHS: commissioning for patients

This paper is a formal response to the Department of Health's public consultation on Commissioning for patients, that sets out information on the intended arrangements for GP commissioning and the NHS Commissioning Board's role in supporting consortia and holding them to account.
11 October 2010
Evidence and consultation

Response to Liberating the NHS: regulating health care providers

This is part of our response to the government's consultation on the White Paper. It sets out our view on the need for regulation, the general scope and nature of that regulation and addresses the changes to the powers and freedoms proposed for NHS trusts.
11 October 2010
Evidence and consultation

Response to Liberating the NHS: local democratic legitimacy in health

Find out why we are not convinced that the health and wellbeing boards will be effective in co-ordinating and integrating commissioning of health and social care services in our response to the consultation on local democratic legitimacy in health.
11 October 2010
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Liberating the NHS: The right prescription in a cold climate?

Many of the changes set out in the government's White Paper have the potential to help to improve performance. However, there are significant risks in making these changes when financial pressures on the NHS are increasing.
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By Anna Dixon et al - 6 October 2010
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Place-based approaches and the NHS: lessons from Total Place

This report captures the content of a conference held by The King's Fund to assess the involvement of the NHS in the Total Place programme.
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By Richard Humphries et al - 1 October 2010
Article

How to deliver high-quality, patient-centred, cost-effective care

This article is the collective effort of ten of the leading health and social care organisations in the voluntary sector to identify the five key themes that the health and social care system must embrace to be sustainable and to ensure quality.
16 September 2010
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Why the plans to reform the NHS may never be implemented

Irrespective of Unison’s request for a review of the government's NHS reform plans, ministers will have to fight on several fronts to implement the health White Paper.
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By Professor Sir Chris Ham - 15 September 2010
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The patient-centred care project: evaluation report

Our evaluation report of a patient-centred care, evidence-based co-design project run by Guys' and St Thomas' and King's College Hospitals.
11 August 2010
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Securing good care for more people: Options for reform

This report on social care proposes new, fairer funding arrangements, a review of the current settlement for older people and reforms to the benefits system.
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By Richard Humphries et al - 16 March 2010
Article

Caring for patients means caring for nurses

As far as patient and staff experiences are concerned, no problem is too small. As well as tackling the issues, leaders must involve their teams in the solutions.
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By Jocelyn Cornwell - 16 March 2010
Evidence and consultation

Consultation response: Department of Health consultation on personal care at home

A formal response to the Department of Health's draft guidance on proposals for regulation and guidance in relation to the draft legislation on personal care at home.
1 February 2010
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