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Author:: Goodwin, Nick, Dixon, Jennifer, Lewis, Richard, The King's Fund, The Nuffield Trust, and Rosen, Rebecca
Publication date:: 2010
Abstract:: Since the 1950s, the NHS has been looking at ways of improving care coordination. Lord Darzi’s NHS Next Stage Review introduced a new concept, that of the integrated care organisation (ICO). Since then, the Government has begun piloting schemes that offer different models of integrated care. This report, published jointly ...

Author:: Goodwin, Nick, Sonola, Lara, The King's Fund, Thiel, Veronika, and Kodner, Dennis L.
Publication date:: 2013
Abstract:: This case study explores community virtual wards based in GP practices within South Devon and Torbay Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). Community virtual wards were first introduced by Devon Primary Care Trust in 2010 to proactively identify those at high risk of emergency admissions using a predictive risk tool and to ...

Author:: Goodwin, Nick, Sonola, Lara, The King's Fund, The Richmond Group of Charities, and Foot, Catherine
Publication date:: 2012
Abstract:: Our first report identified five key themes that the health and social care system must embrace to be sustainable and to ensure quality. This second report is intended to offer a clear strategic direction to achieve the transformational change that is so urgently needed. We have worked with The King’s ... and This article is the collective effort of ten of the leading health and social care organisations in the voluntary sector. The organisations worked with The King’s Fund to establish a common position.

Author:: Goodwin, Nick, The King's Fund, Anderson, Geoff, Wodchis, Walter, and Dixon, Anna
Publication date:: 2014
Abstract:: This report synthesises evidence from seven case studies covering Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. It considers similarities and differences of programmes that are successfully delivering integrated care, and identifies lessons for policy-makers and service providers to help them address the challenges ...

Author:: Goodwin, Nick, Sonola, Lara, The King's Fund, Thiel, Veronika, and Kodner, Dennis L.
Publication date:: 2013
Abstract:: This case study looks at integrated teams of health and social care professionals, known as community resource teams (CRTs), who work to co-ordinate care for people living at home in the largely rural county of Pembrokeshire. This model of care is one aspect of a wider strategic programme of integrated ...

Author:: Goodwin, Nick, Sonola, Lara, The King's Fund, Thiel, Veronika, and Kodner, Dennis L
Publication date:: 2013
Abstract:: Age-related chronic and complex medical conditions account for the largest and growing share of health care budgets in all industrialised nations. However, people living with multiple health and social care needs often experience a highly fragmented service leading to sub-optimal care experiences, outcomes and costs. To address this, strategies of ... and .

Author:: Goodwin, Nick, The King's Fund, and Naylor, Chris
Publication date:: 2012
Abstract:: In early 2009 The King’s Fund conducted a survey of primary care trusts (PCTs) in England, examining the use of external support for commissioning, and eliciting views on the world class commissioning programme. The survey revealed that PCTs are increasingly turning to external organisations, and the private sector in particular, ...

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