New models of care

Our work on PACS, MCPs and other new care models being developed by vanguards and others

Developing new models of care in the PACS vanguards: a new national approach to large-scale change?

For this report we invited those who have led the development of the PACS model, nationally and locally, to reflect on the process of being part of the programme, and of trying to bring about complex change in local systems.

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.

Quality improvement: learning from innovations in the vanguards

Don Berwick sees the impact of work under way in the vanguards, and considers how their innovative approaches could be shared more widely across the NHS.

Supporting leaders to implement integrated care and population health

If you are part of a leadership team working across a health system to deliver integrated care or improve population health, we can help you by providing consultancy advice and support.

Enabling allied health professionals to lead and shape new models of care

NHS vanguards: redesigning the aeroplane in flight

Will vanguards be able to make significant changes to the configuration of local health and care systems, while sustaining existing services in a difficult environment, with limited spare cash and growing service pressures?

Chris Ham in conversation with Samantha Jones

Chris Ham speaks to Samantha Jones, Director of the New Care Models National Programme, about the opportunities and challenges for the NHS vanguards implementing new models of care.

Allied health professionals are critical to new models of care

David Oliver considers the role allied health professionals will have in meeting the challenges facing our health and social care systems and in delivering the new care models outlines in the NHS five year forward view.

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Vince Barry: transforming primary and community services in Canterbury, New Zealand

Vince Barry, CEO of Pegasus Health, a health care provider in Canterbury New Zealand, shares how the organisation has transformed its primary and community services and developed its partnership with the hospital system.

Supporting new NHS care models

Supporting new NHS care models

The King's Fund is working with NHS and care organisations to support the development of the new care models set out in the NHS five year forward view.

Increased demand for care won't be addressed by doing more of the same

With the first anniversary of the NHS five year forward view approaching rapidly, how are new care models developing, and what are the prospects for the future?

Multi-specialty community providers: implementing new models of care

The NHS needs a Transformation Fund

Now, more than ever, we need a new, comprehensive approach to supporting and implementing change, say Richard Murray and Anita Charlesworth.

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A Transformation Fund for the NHS

How would a Transformation Fund work? And how would it be implemented? Our infographics give a quick overview.

Making change happen: a Transformation Fund for the NHS

The health service in England needs a dedicated fund to finance and drive forward essential changes to services, according to a new report launched today by the Health Foundation and The King’s Fund.

Care homes: coming out of the shadows?

Care homes have operated in the shadows of public and political awareness for too long, with policy attention focused on reactions to service failure rather than the promotion of good care.

Charlotte Williams: supporting enhanced health in care homes

Charlotte Williams, NHS England, explains how the new care models set out in the NHS five year forward view will help to support enhanced health in care homes by enabling the delivery of more co-ordinated care.

Bridget Fletcher: enhanced health in care homes – the art of the possible

Bridget Fletcher, Chief Executive, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, explains how specialist nurse and consultant teams run a 24-hour video consultation service for patients and carers in more than 220 nursing and residential homes across the county, in prisons, and with some patients in their own homes.

Andrea Sutcliffe: developing new models of enhanced health in care homes

Andrea Sutcliffe, Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care, Care Quality Commission (CQC), looks at why nursing homes are performing less well than residential care or domiciliary care, and explains how the CQC will be working with the NHS five year forward view vanguard sites to encourage improvement.

Alistair Blair: Building a caring future

Dr Alistair Blair describes integrated care in Northumberland at The King's Fund's implementing primary and acute care systems conference.

Kirsten Major and Ruth Brown: Our integration journey in Sheffield

Kirsten Major and Ruth Brown describe integrated care in Sheffield at The King's Fund's implementing primary and acute care systems conference.

Enhancing health care in care homes: integration in practice

Enhanced care in care homes is one of the new care models set out in the NHS five year forward view. This is good news, as it's high time this issue was brought to the fore, for a number of reasons.

NHS five year forward view: Our work looking at the vision for the future of the NHS, health and care

Sustainability and transformation plans: Our work on plans to bring NHS, councils and others together as STPs to deliver place-based care

Local service design: Our work on designing or reconfiguring care services at a local level