Index Catalog // The King's Fund Digital Archive

Author:: Harrison, Anthony, King's Fund, and Appleby, John
Publication date:: 2005
Abstract:: The need to wait for health care has been a feature of the NHS since its inception. When Labour came to power in 1997, total numbers of patients waiting stood at 1.3 million: the highest since the NHS began in 1948. The government announced its 'war on waiting' and pledged ...

Author:: Bevan, Gwyn, Frosini, Francesca, Lyscom, Tom, Gao, Haiyan, Raleigh, Veena, Appleby, John, and The King's Fund
Publication date:: 2011
Abstract:: Variations in health care in the NHS are a persistent and ubiquitous problem. But which variations are acceptable or warranted - for example, variations driven by clinical need and informed patient choice - and which are not? The important question is how to promote 'good' variation and minimise 'bad' variation. ...

Author:: Poteliakhoff, Emmi , Appleby, John, and The King's Fund
Publication date:: 2011.
Abstract:: Many NHS hospitals will struggle to deliver productivity improvements essential to maintaining quality and avoiding significant cuts to services, according to our latest quarterly monitoring report. This is the second quarterly monitoring report produced by the Fund as we aim to provide a regular update on how the NHS is ...

Author:: Poteliakhoff, Emmi, Appleby, John, and The King's Fund
Publication date:: 2011
Abstract:: Over the next few years the NHS faces two unprecedented challenges: coping with the tightest funding settlement for decades and implementing top-to-bottom reforms of the system. The broad goal of both the productivity and reform challenges is to improve NHS performance and hence the quality of patient care. But both ...

Author:: Appleby, John and The King's Fund
Publication date:: 2006
Abstract:: In March 2005, the King's Fund published An Independent Audit of the NHS under Labour (1997-2005), which included an analysis of where extra NHS funding had been spent. This briefing provides an update to the question "where's the money going?" It analyses new data recently released by the Department of ...

Author:: Harrison, Anthony, Devlin, Nancy, King's Fund, and Appleby, John
Publication date:: 2003
Abstract:: This publication lays out the questions the government must answer if it wants to place patient choice at the heart of a taxpayer-funded health care system, including how extra costs will be met, whether patients are willing and able to exercise choice in their own best interests, and what kinds ...

Author:: The King's Fund , Appleby, John, and Naylor, Chris
Publication date:: 2012
Abstract:: 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 ...

Author:: Harrison, Anthony, Appleby, John, and The King's Fund
Publication date:: 2006
Abstract:: Investment in the NHS has increased significantly under the Blair government. Spending will soon reach the EU average, but when we catch up with our European neighbours, what then? Assuming that pressures to spend more will continue, but that marginal health returns on extra investment are likely to diminish, this ...

Author:: Harrison, Anthony, Wanless, Derek, Appleby, John, Patel, Darshan, and King's Fund
Publication date:: 2007
Abstract:: The Wanless review Securing our Future Health, published by the Treasury in 2002, concluded that the United Kingdom would need to spend substantially more on health care and that fundamental reform would be needed to enable those resources to be used effectively. Five years on, The King's Fund has commissioned ...

Author:: Dr Foster. Ethics Committee, Devlin, Nancy, Appleby, John, and King's Fund
Publication date:: 2005
Abstract:: The primary task of the health service is to improve people's health. A fundamental goal within this is to improve patients' health-related quality of life (HRQoL). But, while measuring and monitoring many aspects of its performance, the NHS does not routinely measure the impact of its care on patients' HRQoL. ...

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