Publications

An independent report giving fresh analysis of the challenges faced by general practice in London, and the improvements that will be needed to address them.

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.

The lasting impact of the reforms on mental health services and the people who use them will depend not simply on the legislation itself, but on how it is implemented, says Chris Naylor.

Using data for more than 8,000 general practices in England, this paper examines the association between patients’ perceptions about the non-clinical aspects of care and practice performance on measures of clinical quality.

We set out our thoughts on the Communities and Local Government Committee inquiry on the role of local authorities in health issues.

This quarter's report finds that NHS performance is holding up well, but there is concern that quality of care may suffer as financial pressures bite from next year.

This paper explains why a failure regime is required in the NHS, outlines how the failure regime for NHS trusts (currently being applied in South London) works and how the failure regime for foundation trusts introduced by the Health and Social Care Act 2012 will work in future.

This paper explores how the current health and social care delivery system has failed to keep pace with the population's needs and expectations.

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.

This document sets out our thoughts on the Department of Health’s consultation: Liberating the NHS: No decision about me, without me.

This paper explores factors that might be driving the significant variation in use of hospital beds by patients over 65 admitted as an emergency.

The topline results and satisfaction trends relating to the NHS and health care issues from the British Social Attitudes survey 2011.

Nicholas Timmins speaks to the Health Service Journal about his new book: Never Again? The story of the Health and Social Care Act 2012.

Written by Nicholas Timmins, this book explains why and how the Health and Social Care Act became law.

Implementation of reforms to the hallowed health service is likely to prove messy, says Nick Timmins in the Financial Times.

The May 2012 monitoring report looks back at how the NHS performed during the first year of the spending squeeze.

Our discussion paper looks at the practicalities and controversies surrounding rationing of resources, and identifies what is known about how it works in practice.

Will health and wellbeing boards be able to achieve greater success than previous bodies? This paper assesses the ways in which local authorities have begun to develop new arrangements with their partners.

Will health and wellbeing boards be wordy talking shops or transforming system leaders? Richard Humphries explores this in an article for Local Government Chronicle.

Our data briefing looks at patterns of admissions for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions and assesses how emergency admissions could be reduced.