Index Catalog // The Kings Fund Digital Archive

Author:: Lawton-Smith, Simon and King's Fund
Publication date:: 2006
Abstract:: In recent years, several countries have introduced powers to compel certain people with mental disorders living in the community to engage with services and undergo treatment. This paper explores what happened in the first six months after community-based compulsory treatment orders were introduced in Scotland in October 2005. It looks ...

Author:: Baxter, Kate, Evans, David, Mays, Nicholas, Scott, Judith, Malbon, Gill, Goodwin, Nick, Killoran, Amanda, Abbott, Stephen, King's Fund, and Wyke, Sally
Publication date:: 2000
Abstract:: The overall aim of the third year of the national evaluation of TPPs, spanning October 1997 to September 1998, was to identify the ingredients of successful devolved purchasing based in primary care by in-depth study of twelve first wave TPPs. The analysis presented here considers eleven of the case studies ...

Author:: Robinson, Ray, Malbon, Gill, King's Fund, Bevan, Gwyn, Mays, Nicholas, Total Purchasing National Evaluation Team, Goodwin, Nick, Posnett, John, Raftery, James, McLeod, Hugh, Abbott, Stephen, Wyke, Sally, and Killoran, Amanda
Publication date:: 1999
Abstract:: Total purchasing was the first major 'internal market' policy initiative to be extensively evaluated by the Department of Health and Scottish Office. This report draws together the main evidence from the evaluation in order to inform the development of the new primary care organisations in the NHS, which came into ...

Author:: Raftery, James, Health Economics Facility (Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham), McLeod, Hugh, and King's Fund
Publication date:: 1999
Abstract:: This report summarises the hospital activity analysis for two types of first-wave total purchasing pilots (TPPs), 'commissioner' TPPs and 'co-purchaser' TPPs. The main objective of the analysis was to compare changes in hospital activity, in the areas for which TPPs had objectives, with those of comparators. The authors conclude that: ...

Author:: Wyke, Sally, Killoran, Amanda, Malbon, Gill, Mays, Nicholas, King's Fund, and Goodwin, Nick
Publication date:: 1999
Abstract:: This working paper from the second year of TPPs makes the following key findings: larger TPPs are becoming high achievers; a group of TPPs (43 per cent) improved their performance over two years, about a quarter remained at the same level and about a third dropped out; a greater proportion ...

Author:: Lee, John, Donnan, Stuart, King's Fund, National Primary Care Research and Development Centre (University of Manchester), Gask, Linda, and Roland, Martin
Publication date:: 1999
Abstract:: This report describes the evaluation of total purchasing and extended purchasing sites with an interest in mental health services. A consistent objective of these sites was the improvement of communication and information flows between primary and secondary care. The priority was the development of services for people with common mental ...

Author:: Malbon, Gill, Total Purchasing National Evaluation Team, King's Fund, Killoran, Amanda, Mays, Nicholas, and Wyke, Sally
Publication date:: 1999
Abstract:: The evaluation of the Total Purchasing Pilots (TPPs) provides important lessons for the development of the new primary care organisations envisaged in the English, Welsh and Scottish NHS white papers. Despite originating in a very different context, total purchasing was essentially about groups of practices working together to develop services ...

Author:: King's Fund, Abbott, Stephen, Goodwin, Nick, Killoran, Amanda, Mays, Nicholas, Wyke, Sally, and Malbon, Gill
Publication date:: 1999
Abstract:: This report aims to describe the ways in which the structure, role and impact of TPPs may be instructive to PCGs. Practical illustrations are used to demonstrate how particular changes in services were achieved in the context of local conditions, providing useful examples for PCGs. English PCGs are the main ...

Author:: King's Fund, Page, Lesley, Macleod, Linda, Young, Gavin, Wyke, Sally, Piercy, James, Posnett, John, and Hewison, Jenny
Publication date:: 1998
Abstract:: Many of the potential pitfalls of increasing purchaser plurality in the NHS are relevant in planning and developing general practitioner led locality commissioning. However, this involvement in commissioning or purchasing maternity care may actually provide the 'bite' necessary to move reluctant provider trusts more quickly towards services which meet the ...

Author:: Robinson, Ray, Robison, Judy, Raftery, James, and King's Fund
Publication date:: 1998
Abstract:: While most GP practices participating in total purchasing have some experience of contracting with health care providers, the extension of their responsibilities has, in many cases, taken them into entirely new areas and posed a set of challenges for primary care-based purchasing. This paper concentrates on a central element of ...

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