This document gives the King's Fund thoughts on the Communities and Local Government Committee inquiry on the role of local authorities in health issues. The Health and Social Care Act 2012 fundamentally alters the relationship between local government and the NHS. Responsibility for many public health and health improvement functions ...
This consultation response sets out The King's Fund's thoughts on improving dignity in care to the Partnership on Dignity in Care (Age UK, NHS Confederation and Local Government Group). It focuses on the Point of Care programme and Enhancing the Healing Environment projects, drawing attention to insights, argument and evidence ...
We welcome the opportunity to contribute to the Care Quality Commission (CQC) consultation on changes to the way it regulates, inspects and monitors care. This short paper sets out the views of The King’s Fund.
This paper looks at the changes needed to realise the full potential of community services for transforming care. The Transforming Community Services policy, launched in 2008, was mainly concerned with structural changes. While the emphasis on moving care closer to home has resulted in some reductions in length of hospital ...
This report considers issues facing stakeholders in London who are working on two problems: "how do we build healthy and safe communities in the capital?" and "what role does the NHS have in improving community safety?" It is written for policy makers and practitioners in the NHS and its partner ...
As England’s population both expands and ages, so the demands on primary care will grow. Within the current commissioning and funding system innovative models of primary care provision are already being used. This report describes examples of these through four case studies in different areas of England. It also highlights ...
People's health behaviours are widely known to affect their health and risk of mortality. Less is known about how these behaviours cluster together in the population and how multiple lifestyle risk patterns have changed over time between different population groups. Focusing on changes in the English population between 2003 and ...
The King's Fund and the Nuffield Trust are working together to assess the implementation and impact of clinical commissioning groups. Between 2012 and 2015, we are following the evolution of clinical commissioning in six case-study sites and will publish the findings annually. This first report is based on fieldwork conducted ...
Clinically led approaches to planning and designing health services are more likely to be both innovative and effective. For this reason, clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) were set up to put GPs at the heart of NHS planning decisions. What progress have CCGs made in implementing their clinically led model and ...