Index Catalog // The King's Fund Digital Archive

Créateur:: The King's Fund, Dunn, Phoebe, and Buck, Dave
Publication date:: 2015
Abstract:: This report was commissioned by the District Councils’ Network (DCN) in 2015. Its intention is to contribute to the understanding, assessment and development of the role of district councils in improving the health of their citizens and communities. It focuses on district councils’ role in promoting public health through some ...

Créateur:: The King's Fund, Timmins, Nick, and Ham, Chris
Publication date:: 2015
Abstract:: In 2014 The King’s Fund was approached by the health department in the Australian state of Victoria to undertake an independent review of the model of the state’s devolved governance of health services. This report presents the findings of our review, drawing on three visits to interview key stakeholders and ...

Créateur:: McKenna, Helen, The King's Fund, and Dunn, Phoebe
Publication date:: 2015
Abstract:: Devolution of powers and funds from central to local government has emerged as one of this government’s flagship policies. Along with powers over housing, skills and transport, the 'Devo Manc' deal between the Treasury and Greater Manchester paves the way for the councils and NHS in Greater Manchester to take ...

Créateur:: The King's Fund
Publication date:: 2013
Abstract:: This publication describes the work of Developing Supportive Design for People with Dementia - the latest phase of The King’s Fund’s Enhancing the Healing Environment (EHE) programme. The EHE initiative encourages and enables clinically led multidisciplinary teams to work in partnership with patients and carers to improve services through environmental ...

Créateur:: McKenna, Helen, The King's Fund, Dunn, Phoebe, and Murray, Richard
Publication date:: 2016
Abstract:: Unaudited figures indicate that NHS commissioners (clinical commissioning groups and NHS England) and providers in aggregate ended 2015/16 in deficit for the second year running. This briefing draws on data from our quarterly monitoring reports, secondary research and interviews with health care leaders to consider commissioner and provider finances in ...

Créateur:: 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 ...

Créateur:: The King's Fund, Cornwell, Jocelyn, and Goodrich, Joanna
Publication date:: 2012
Abstract:: The King’s Fund Point of Care programme aims to improve the experience of patients in hospital and to support staff to provide high-quality, patient-centred care. Hospital staff are working in highly pressurised environments and the nature of their work is complex, intense and emotionally challenging. This has an impact on ...

Créateur:: Sonola, Lara, The King's Fund, Cornwell, Jocelyn, Levenson, Ros, and Poteliakhoff , Emmi
Publication date:: 2012
Abstract:: Consistent, reliable high-quality care is what all patients want and health workers aim to provide. However, the reality for most patients, particularly those in acute hospitals, often falls far short of the ideal. In the context of acute care, the risks of fragmentation and breakdown in care co-ordination are high, ...

Créateur:: The King's Fund
Publication date:: 2012
Abstract:: In this response The King’s Fund highlight two pieces of their recent research: “Making shared decision-making a reality: no decision about me, without me” (Coulter and Collins 2012) produced a clear definition of shared decision-making and outlined what steps need to be taken to implement it; and “Patients’ preferences matter: ...

Créateur:: The King's Fund
Publication date:: 2011
Abstract:: Alongside the Social Care Vision, the Department of Health has launched Transparency in Outcomes: a framework for adult social care - a consultation on a new strategic approach to quality and outcomes in adult social care. The consultation envisages an enabling framework which places outcomes at the heart of social ...

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