Index Catalog // The King's Fund Digital Archive

Author:: The King's Fund, Foot, Catherine, and Harrison, Tony
Publication date:: 2011
Abstract:: Cancer survival rates in England are improving, but they still lag behind those in the best-performing countries in the world. The current government has identified cancer survival rates as an area for improvement and the cancer strategy commits to saving an additional 5,000 lives by 2015, but how can these ...

Author:: Baird, Beccy, The King's Fund, Jabbal, Joni, Thompson, James, and Appleby, John
Publication date:: 2015
Abstract:: This report, the second part of 'The NHS under the coalition government', looks at how well the NHS has performed under the coalition government. The report acknowledges that assessing the performance of any health service is an inexact science for many reasons, but using routinely available data, the report creates ...

Author:: The King's Fund and Appleby, John
Publication date:: 2013
Abstract:: In the past 50 years, spending on the NHS in the United Kingdom has increased from 3.4 per cent to 8.2 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP). If the next 50 years follow the same trajectory, the United Kingdom could be spending nearly one-fifth of its entire GDP on ...

Author:: The King's Fund, Humphries, Richard, Holder, Holly, Charles, Anna, Nuffield Trust, Thorlby, Ruth, and Hall, Patrick
Publication date:: 2016
Abstract:: This report, published jointly with the Nuffield Trust, looks at the current state of social care services for older people in England, through a combination of national data and interviews with local authorities, NHS and private providers, Healthwatch and other groups. It considers the impact of cuts in local authority ...

Author:: Imison, Candace, The King's Fund, Poteliakoff, Emmi, and Thompson, James
Publication date:: 2012
Abstract:: This paper explores factors that might be driving the significant variation in use of hospital beds by patients over 65 admitted as an emergency. It considers the contribution made by patient-based (demand-side) factors, hospital (supply-side) factors, the availability of community services and resources, and broader system relationships (how care systems ...

Author:: Buck, David, Maguire, David, and The King's Fund
Publication date:: 2015
Abstract:: Our health is determined by a complex mix of factors including income, housing and employment status, and lifestyle. There are significant inequalities in health, including life expectancy, between individuals and groups in society. So what creates those inequalities and what are the implications? This report revisits and updates some of ...

Author:: Alderwick, Hugh, The King's Fund, Dunn, Phoebe, Maguire, David, Appleby, John, and Robertson, Ruth
Publication date:: 2015
Abstract:: This report looks back at past trends in NHS productivity to help us to understand how this has been done in the past and also identifies a number of opportunities for the future. The authors consider three areas - generic prescribing, length of stay and day case surgery – in ...

Author:: Smith, Alex, Foot, Catherine, Harrison, Tony, Appleby, John, Gilmour, Stuart, and The King's Fund
Publication date:: 2011
Abstract:: Given the wide and persistent variation in spending on cancer services, this project aimed to identify and quantify sources of variation in primary care trust (PCT) cancer spending and provide PCTs and cancer networks with a systematic way of framing decisions about the appropriate share of their total budgets to ...

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