Index Catalog // The King's Fund Digital Archive

Créateur:: King's Fund, Office of Health Economics, and Centre for Health Economics (University of York)
Publication date:: 2004
Abstract:: Derek Wanless' 2002 report on the future course of NHS spending was immensely important. Not only did it directly inform the Chancellor's spending plans for the NHS for the next five years - which gave the NHS an unprecedented real increase of over 40 per cent by 2007/8 - but ...

Créateur:: King's Fund
Publication date:: 2002
Abstract:: This publication reviews the Labour Party's inheritance when it came to power in 1997, its early promises and its actions to date. It analyses performance against pledges in the areas of funding, waiting, rationing, primary care, workforce, quality assurance, the private sector, long-term care, patient and public involvement and health ...

Créateur:: King's Fund
Publication date:: 2001
Abstract:: The Government is planning controversial changes to the funding of long term care for older people. This important book explores the past and future of policy in this area and reflects the changing balance between the state's and the individual's responsibilities to cover risks associated with ill health and disabilities. ...

Créateur:: King's Fund, Dixon, Jennifer, and Harrison, Anthony
Publication date:: 2000
Abstract:: Because the NHS was founded to provide equal access to all on the basis of need rather than the ability to pay, price was eliminated as a method of bringing demand for services into line with supply. This means that the Government has to make decisions about the amount of ...

Créateur:: King's Fund
Publication date:: 2000
Abstract:: This publication is a comprehensive review of health care and policy issues. It contains a calendar of events for the months June to August 2000 as well as discussion of key policy issues. Specific areas dealt with in this issue include: the NHS Plan; public attitudes towards the NHS between ...

Créateur:: King's Fund and Maxwell, Robert J.
Publication date:: 1997
Abstract:: This book explains the events leading up to the BSE crisis. The story begins in the mid-eighties when the first cases of the disease were reported in cattle and ends a decade later with the first cases of the new CJD, the EU ban on British beef exports and the ...

Créateur:: Harrison, Anthony, Wanless, Derek, King's Fund, Patel, Darshan, and Appleby, John
Publication date:: 2007
Abstract:: The Wanless review Securing our Future Health, published by the Treasury in 2002, concluded that the United Kingdom would need to spend substantially more on health care and that fundamental reform would be needed to enable those resources to be used effectively. Five years on, The King's Fund has commissioned ...

Créateur:: King's Fund
Publication date:: 2005
Abstract:: This independent audit was commissioned by the Sunday Times and is published with their kind permission. and The Labour Party came to power in 1997 promising to 'save' the NHS. Since then, it has found unprecedented increases in funding for the health service, but Prime Minister Tony Blair has emphasised that the extra money must be linked to a 'step-change' in reform. This reform has taken four ...

Créateur:: King's Fund and Appleby, John
Publication date:: [2007]
Abstract:: Published in February 2007. and In order to help inform the debate about funding health over the next five to ten years, the King's Fund organised a meeting of senior managers, health economists and policy advisers at Leeds Castle. They discussed not only what level of public funding is feasible and desirable, but also the ...

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