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 ...
The commission, chaired by Dame Kate Barker, proposes a new approach that redesigns care around individual needs regardless of diagnosis, with a graduated increase in support as needs rise, particularly towards the end of life. The twelve recommendations set out a vision for a more integrated health and social care ...
This is the interim report from the independent Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England. In it, the commission explains why it believes England needs a single health and social care system, with a ring-fenced, singly commissioned budget, and more closely aligned entitlements. Drawing on accounts ...
The briefing warns that unless additional funding is found, a growing black hole in NHS finances could have significant consequences for patient care. Although there are opportunities for the NHS to improve productivity, the briefing argues that initiatives to reduce spending on agency staff and increase financial control will not ...
This report looks back at past trends in NHS productivity to help us to understand how this has been done in the past and also identifies a number of opportunities for the future. The authors consider three areas - generic prescribing, length of stay and day case surgery – in ...