This publication describes the work of Developing Supportive Design for People with Dementia - the latest phase of The King’s Fund’s Enhancing the Healing Environment (EHE) programme. The EHE initiative encourages and enables clinically led multidisciplinary teams to work in partnership with patients and carers to improve services through environmental ...
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.
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 ...
The King’s Fund welcomes the Care Bill as an important stepping stone to wider reform of care and support. By modernising the legal framework for social care and implementing the recommendations of the Dilnot Commission on social care funding, it will significantly improve the way the current system operates and ...
Health care commissioners will need to deliver a sustainable system in the face of the most challenging financial and organisational environment seen in decades. They must shift the current emphasis on acute and episodic care towards prevention, self-care and integrated and well co-ordinated care to cope with an aging population ...
This Briefing explains the purpose and remit of the Commission. It will consider whether the post-war settlement, which established separate systems for health and social care, remains fit for purpose. What sets it apart from other reviews past and present is that it will fundamentally re-examine the terms of the ...
We welcome the opportunity to contribute to the independent review by the Nuffield Trust commissioned by the Secretary of State for Health to consider whether aggregate ratings of provider performance should be used in health and social care.
This short paper sets out the views of The King’s Fund. Overall, ...
The problem of growing demand for urgent care continues. There have been overall improvements in urgent and emergency care performance but there is wide variation in performance in NHS South of England in both organisations and local systems and signs of decline nationally. This report brings together the key findings ... and This research was carried out by The King's Fund for NHS South of England.