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 ...
Health care workforce planning is highly complex and multi-layered and involves different timelines for different professions and occupations. It is made particularly difficult by the long timelines associated with medical workforce planning. Our previous work suggested that these complexities make it is impossible to get workforce planning ‘right’, not least ...
This is an overall response and reflection on the White Paper Healthy Lives, Healthy People (Department of Health 2010) and the associated consultations on the outcomes framework and commissioning and funding mechanisms. We welcome the opportunity to respond to the Department’s proposals in the spirit of improving them further and ...
This response is one of two submitted by The King’s Fund to the government’s consultations: on an information revolution and on greater choice and control. These responses are also available on our website, together with our previous consultation responses on regulation, outcomes, democratic legitimacy and commissioning, and the original response ...
This response is one of two submitted by The King’s Fund to the government’s consultations: on an information revolution and on greater choice and control. These responses are also available on our website, together with our previous consultation responses on regulation, outcomes, democratic legitimacy and commissioning, and the original response ...
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 ...
This briefing summarises The King's Fund's response to proposed government amendments to the Health and Social Care Bill. and We welcome the report of the NHS Future Forum and the government's response to its recommendations. The amendments proposed by the government respond to many of the concerns that we and others have raised and will significantly improve the Bill. It now offers a more promising approach to addressing the ...
This paper was commissioned by The King’s Fund to inform the Inquiry panel. The views expressed are those of the authors and not of the panel. and This paper assesses the challenges commissioners face, identifies the factors and tools that are particularly relevant to commissioning effective general practice, and suggests what can be done to address weaknesses in general practice commissioning.