Index Catalog // The King's Fund Digital Archive

Créateur:: Alderwick, Hugh, Dunn, Phoebe, McKenna, Helen, Ham, Chris, The King's Fund, and Walsh, Nicola
Publication date:: 2016
Abstract:: Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) have been developed by NHS and local government leaders in 44 parts of England. The plans offer a chance for health and social care leaders to work together to improve care and manage limited resources. But will they succeed where other initiatives have failed? Despite ...

Créateur:: Thompson, James, The King's Fund, and Poteliakhoff, Emmi
Publication date:: 2011
Abstract:: Although its budget was protected in the 2010 Spending Review, the NHS faces the tightest financial settlement in its history. To avoid reducing quality and making significant cuts to services, it needs to find £20 billion in productivity improvements by 2015. Reductions in the prices paid to hospitals for treating ...

Créateur:: Mundle, Claire, Dixon, Anna, The King's Fund, and Harrison, Tony
Publication date:: 2011
Abstract:: This paper seeks to take a dispassionate look at the potential lessons for the development of economic regulation in health care that can be learned from the experiences of both countries that have already implemented it and those of other market sectors in the United Kingdom. It will be essential ...

Créateur:: Curry, Natasha, Smith, Judith, The Nuffield Trust, The King's Fund, Dixon, Jennifer, and Mays, Nicholas
Publication date:: 2010
Abstract:: In this report, we focus on what needs to be done to strengthen commissioning in the NHS, through an analysis of the problems with current commissioning arrangements. We begin by examining what is meant by ‘commissioning’ in the English NHS.

Créateur:: Raleigh, Veena S., The King's Fund, and Foot, Catherine
Publication date:: 2010
Abstract:: Quality has been at the centre of recent NHS policy, and the NHS Next Stage Review highlighted the role of information and measurement in supporting quality improvement, particularly in relation to patient safety, clinical effectiveness and patient experience. It is therefore important to be clear how quality can be measured ...

Créateur:: 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 ...

Créateur:: Devlin, Nancy J., The King's Fund, and Appleby, John
Publication date:: 2010
Abstract:: The aim of this report is to provoke and encourage thinking about the wide range of ways in which patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) data can be used to inform decisions. It draws on Bupa’s example to discuss how providers can use PROMs data to improve clinical performance. It also offers ...

Créateur:: The King's Fund
Publication date:: 2010
Abstract:: With the Budget set to confirm that the NHS is facing the most significant financial challenge in its history, new analysis from The King’s Fund shows the extent of the productivity gap it needs to address.

Créateur:: Black, Carol and The King's Fund
Publication date:: 2009
Abstract:: Despite the increasing popularity and use of complementary practice, it is difficult to assess its effectiveness. Lack of research - and lack of agreement on research methods - has led to criticism from branches of conventional medicine. The King's Fund set up an advisory group, chaired by Professor Dame Carol ...

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