The NHS has undergone many reforms over the past decade. To test out where the reforms - and interactions between them - might lead the NHS, the King's Fund formed a partnership with Loop2, Monitor and Nuffield Hospitals to produce Windmill 2007. This initiative included a two-day simulation of a ...
The National Health Service (NHS) in England is in a state of transition as the government pushes forward a programme of significant reform. If the government achieves its stated objectives, the NHS will be transformed from a state-owned commissioning and provision system to one in which care is delivered by ...
It is clear that the era of unprecedented investment in health care is over, and prospects for future funding now look bleak. But just how the NHS will respond to this is uncertain. To test how those in the system might respond, we used a behavioural simulation - Windmill 2009, ...
This is the third in a series of reports published for the London Commission by the King's Fund. It makes the case for an integrated approach to health care in the capital. Currently, although health care involves a set of discrete activities which interact with each other across primary, secondary ...
The papers in this book were presented at the 1995 King's Fund international seminar in Canada by representatives of health services in six countries which have undergone major attempts at reform. Assuming that problems will still exist after structural changes have been implemented, they consider what lies ahead for the ...
The author describes his visit to Zambia to advise on the development of a policy for hospitals at all levels and an approach to implementation. He visited the country from 27 February to 13 March 1994 to see the major types of hospitals. His recommendations for reforms are presented along ...
This conference was held at the King's Fund College of Hospital Management and the main themes were: methods of appraising hospital and health services; costing hospital and health care; manning hospital and health services; integrating components of hospital and health services.
The intention of this conference was to bring together persons from many countries who would be able to state, explain and comment upon the staffing problems of the health services of their national areas; who would be competent to discuss relevant matters of general interest; and whose individual and joint ...
The first paper from the conference discusses the health system of Sweden, considers how the rising costs of hospital care and shortage of medical personnel and especially doctors and nurses have focused the interest of the responsible medical and political bodies on rational hospital planning and organisation. The second paper ...