WSD Action Network has been commissioned by the Whole System Demonstrator Programme at the Department of Health and through the Department of Health’s Policy Research Programme. The Network is hosted by The King's Fund and DH Care Networks on behalf of the Department of Health. and This paper, the first in a series of WSDAN briefing papers, looks at how telehealth and telecare innovations are being used in health and social care. It considers the range of innovative approaches that have been developed, giving some practical examples. It identifies some of the key challenges to the ...
The King’s Fund’s Time to Think Differently programme of work aims to stimulate debate about the changes needed for health and social care to meet the challenges of the future. It aims to generate new thinking about how to address these challenges and deliver a transformation in services for patients. ...
Marcus Powell joined The King’s Fund in 2016 as Director of Leadership and Organisational Development, having spent his whole career outside the NHS in the private sector. This paper contains his initial observations about leadership in the NHS.
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 ...
The 23 vanguard sites chosen to develop the multispecialty community provider (MCP) and primary and acute care system (PACS) new care models have been working to pool budgets and integrate services more closely. Some are continuing to use informal partnerships, but others are opting for more formal governance arrangements. Commissioners ...
The Montefiore Health System in the Bronx, New York, has found ways of helping even the most deprived by stepping beyond the bounds of conventional health services. This commissioned report builds on the overview of the Montefiore Health System we published in April 2018 and explores building primary and community ... and This independent report was commissioned by 3M. The King’s Fund carried out interviews with Montefiore’s staff and relied on information provided to compile this case study. It did not itself evaluate Montefiore’s performance. The views in the report are those of the author and all conclusions are the author’s own.
This report looks at innovative models of general practice from the UK and other countries and identify the key features the authors believe will be important in designing effective GP services in the future.
This research sought to understand the current state of community services and to explore how the health and care system needs to change to enable these services to meet the needs of the population now and in the future.
This paper looks at compassion – which involves attending, understanding, empathising and helping – as a core cultural value of the NHS and how compassionate leadership results in a working environment that encourages people to find new and improved ways of doing things.