Index Catalog // The King's Fund Digital Archive

Créateur:: The King's Fund
Publication date:: 2011
Abstract:: Throughout the debate on the Health and Social Care Bill, The King's Fund has argued that the real choice is not between stability and change but between reforms that are well designed and deliver benefits to patients and those that are poorly planned and undermine NHS performance. The amendments made ...

Créateur:: Soljak, Michael, Millett, Christopher, The King's Fund, Tian, Yang, Thompson, James, Dixon, Anna, Goodwin, Nick, Imperial College London, and Raleigh, Veena
Publication date:: 2012
Abstract:: This report outlines the challenges faced by general practice in London and the improvements needed in order to address them. The report is aimed at those who have a role in leading quality improvement in primary care, namely GPs working in London and leaders of primary care providers, clinical commissioning ...

Créateur:: The King's Fund and Buck, Dave
Publication date:: 2016
Abstract:: The National Gardens Scheme (NGS) commissioned The King's Fund to write an independent report on the benefits of gardens and gardening on health. It reviewed the existing evidence on gardens and wellbeing and includes a menu of recommendations for national strategic action as well as local front-line action.

Créateur:: Dixon, Jennifer, Lewis, Richard, and The King's Fund
Publication date:: 2005
Abstract:: Primary care has been the subject of a quiet revolution in recent years, with the ending of the monopoly of provision by independently contracted GPs and the introduction of a range of new targets and new forms of first contact care. Now it is poised for further radical change with ...

Créateur:: Marsden, Nick, Imison, Candace, Stoltz, Brad, Melton, Steve, Deegan, Mike, Heller, Lucy, Dunn, Steve, Fagge, Jonathon, Marsh, Anthony, Hamlett, David, Ham, Chris, The King's Fund, Brogan, Andy, and Hopson, Chris
Publication date:: 2014
Abstract:: With a growing number of health care providers in deficit and others placed in special measures because of concerns about the quality of their care, the search is on to find ways in which they could be supported. Sir David Dalton’s forthcoming review provides a timely opportunity to explore the ...

Créateur:: The King's Fund and Collins, Ben
Publication date:: 2015
Abstract:: Mergers of trusts in the NHS are often instigated by national bodies so that NHS trusts can gain foundation trust status or failing providers can be rescued from financial difficulties. This report looks at 20 mergers between 2010 and mid-2015 and finds that significant sums of money are being spent ...

Créateur:: Imison, Candace, The King's Fund, Jabbal, Joni, and Murray, Richard
Publication date:: 2014
Abstract:: This report describes the current financial state of the NHS and the reasons for the deterioration in financial performance and ultimately financial failure. These include weak leadership, legacy costs, payment by results (PbR), and the impact of the wider health economy.

Créateur:: Sonola, Lara, Buck, David, Tian, Yang, Thompson, James, and The King's Fund
Publication date:: 2013
Abstract:: This paper uses Torbay's unique patient-level linked data set to explore the cost of the care pathway for older people admitted to hospital as a result of a fall by tracking their care costs in the 12 months before and after their fall. This is the first time, to our ...

Créateur:: Steward, Katy and The King's Fund
Publication date:: 2014
Abstract:: Following the Francis Report into the failures of care at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, and the government’s response to the report, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has introduced a more rigorous and wide-ranging approach to inspecting health care providers. The main purpose of inspections is to assess the quality ...

Créateur:: Ross, Shilpa, Buck, David, Simpson, Merron, New NHS Alliance, and The King's Fund
Publication date:: 2016
Abstract:: This report, based on work commissioned by the National Housing Federation from The King’s Fund and the New NHS Alliance, looks at the economic case for closer working between the housing and health sectors. The authors demonstrate how housing associations provide a wide range of services that produce health benefits, ...

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