Index Catalog // The King's Fund Digital Archive

Schöpfer:: The King's Fund, Bell, Andy, Naylor, Chris, and Centre for Mental Health
Publication date:: 2010
Abstract:: The NHS is facing a significant financial challenge and needs to make substantial improvements in productivity if it is to provide high-quality services without additional funding. Spending on mental health accounts for around ten per cent of the overall health budget and so the mental health sector has a key ...

Schöpfer:: The King's Fund, Naylor, Chris, and Appleby, John
Publication date:: 2012
Abstract:: This report is based on a literature review and stakeholder consultation carried out by The King’s Fund on behalf of the National Institute for Health Research and the Social Care Institute for Excellence. The report provides an overview of current knowledge about the environmental impacts of health and social care ...

Schöpfer:: Sonola, Lara, The King's Fund, Honeyman, Matthew, Kothari, Suruchi, Robertson, Ruth, and Brooke, Beatrice
Publication date:: 2014
Abstract:: The King’s Fund visited six services where consultants are delivering or facilitating care outside hospital. This report presents the findings from those visits as case studies. It identifies key characteristics and challenges to this way of working and seeks out evidence of the benefits to patients and the NHS more ...

Schöpfer:: The King's Fund, Tian, Yang, Gao, Haiyan, and Dixon, Anna
Publication date:: 2012
Abstract:: This data briefing aims to highlight for commissioners the opportunity for improving the quality of care and saving costs that reducing emergency hospital admissions for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions (ACSCs) presents. It uses Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data to examine the sociodemographic patterns of emergency admissions for each ACSC and calculates ...

Schöpfer:: Imison, Candace, The King's Fund, Jennings, Mark, and Ham, Chris
Publication date:: 2010
Abstract:: This paper summarises presentations made at a seminar held at The King’s Fund in April 2010. The seminar brought together case studies from the NHS in England, Kaiser Permanente in California and the independent sector, as well as research evidence, to explore what has been tried and what has worked ...

Schöpfer:: Billings, John, Health Dialog Analytic Solutions, Dixon, Jennifer, Curry, Natasha, New York University. Center for Health and Public Service Research, and The King's Fund
Publication date:: 2006
Abstract:: Improving management of high cost patients, especially those with long term conditions, it is increasingly viewed as an important strategy for improving health outcomes and controlling health care expenditures. An essential component of any strategy to improve care and services for these patients is the development of a case finding ...

Schöpfer:: The King's Fund and Purdy, Sarah
Publication date:: 2010
Abstract:: Emergency admissions to hospital are costly to the NHS and also cause disruption to planned health care. Considerable efforts have been made within the health service to reduce emergency admissions, but few primary care trusts have been successful, with some primary care trusts recording an increase. In order to successfully ...

Schöpfer:: The King's Fund, Baylis, Alex, Robertson, Ruth, Buck, David, and Dougall, Durka
Publication date:: 2018
Abstract:: The King's Fund's vision for population health is to reduce inequalities and achieve health outcomes on a par with the best in the world. We have developed a framework for population health based on four pillars: the wider determinants of health; our health behaviours and lifestyles; the places and communities ...

Schöpfer:: The King's Fund and Timmins, Nicholas
Publication date:: 2017
Abstract:: The Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme aims to bring about higher-quality care in hospitals, at lower cost, by reducing unwanted variations in services and practices. It uses national data to identify the variations and outcomes, shares that data with all those concerned with a service – not only ...

Schöpfer:: The King's Fund
Publication date:: 2009
Abstract:: The emphasis given in New Horizons to the prevention of mental illness and the promotion of positive mental health is welcome, but this must not be allowed to compromise the availability or quality of acute care. Evidence on the cost-effectiveness of proposals is needed, particularly with regard to preventive approaches. ...

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