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  • a review for the Department of Health., Measuring the performance of local health systems

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    In June 2015, The King’s Fund was commissioned by the Department of Health to review how the performance of local health systems could be assessed. Our review looks at how to measure the performance of health services within CCG areas, including how well these services work with social care and ...

  • the Health and Social Care bill : second reading in the House of Lords., Briefing

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    Throughout the debate on the Health and Social Care Bill, The King’s Fund has argued that the real choice is not between stability and change but between reforms that are well designed and deliver benefits to patients and those that are poorly planned and undermine NHS performance. The amendments made ...

  • Foundation trust and NHS trust mergers 2010-2015.

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    Mergers of trusts in the NHS are often instigated by national bodies so that NHS trusts can gain foundation trust status or failing providers can be rescued from financial difficulties. This report looks at 20 mergers between 2010 and mid-2015 and finds that significant sums of money are being spent ...

  • what causes it and how best to manage it., Financial failure in the NHS

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    This report describes the current financial state of the NHS and the reasons for the deterioration in financial performance and ultimately financial failure. These include weak leadership, legacy costs, payment by results (PbR), and the impact of the wider health economy.

  • Improving the patient experience, developing supportive design for people with dementia : The King's Fund's Enhancing the Healing Environment Programme 2009-2012.

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    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 ...

  • supporting improvement in general practice?, Clinical commissioning groups

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    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 ...

  • Avoiding hospital admissions, lessons from evidence and experience.

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    This paper summarises presentations made at a seminar held at The King’s Fund in April 2010. The seminar brought together case studies from the NHS in England, Kaiser Permanente in California and the independent sector, as well as research evidence, to explore what has been tried and what has worked ...

  • Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England.

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    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 ...

  • Evaluating telecare and telehealth interventions

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    WSD Action Network has been commissioned by the Whole System Demonstrator Programme at the Department of Health and through the Department of Health’s Policy Research Programme. The Network is hosted by The King's Fund and DH Care Networks on behalf of the Department of Health. and This paper, the second in a series of WSDAN briefing papers, provides guidance about how to carry out good-quality evaluations of telecare and telehealth interventions. We identify different types of evaluations, and briefly review the evidence from systematic reviews of telecare and telehealth to illustrate key issues to be addressed ...

  • implications of the government's reform programme., Accountability in the NHS

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    The government’s health reforms propose radical changes to the structures and processes within the National Health Service (NHS) in England that have provoked unprecedented debate, protest and opposition. One of the core issues is how providers and commissioners of care will be held to account in the future if many ...