This publication describes projects in 19 NHS trusts and one HM prison that took part in schemes to improve the environment of care at the end of life. It describes the broader Enhancing the Healing Environment programme, which has been supported by the Department of Health in a series of ...
This case study is part of a research project undertaken by The King’s Fund and funded by Aetna and the Aetna Foundation in the USA to compare five successful UK-based models of care co-ordination (see Appendix 1 for methods used to collect the study data). The aim of each case ...
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 ...
The grants programme “Partners for Health” was established in 2006 as a different approach to funding by the King’s Fund. The “Partners for Health” programme was similar to the open grants programme in that it intended to offer 3 years funding for projects from the voluntary sector and NHS with ...
Recent government guidance, "End of Life Care Strategy: Promoting High Quality Care for All Adults at the End of Life" and "Guidance on Cancer Services: Improving Supportive and Palliative Care for Adults with Cancer", has raised the profile of end-of-life-care (EOLC). However, historically care has been poorly organised, with large ... and This research paper was commissioned by The King's Fund to inform the panel of the Inquiry into the Quality of General Practice in England. The views expressed are those of the authors and not of the panel.
The government’s End of Life Care Strategy set out to improve the care that patients receive at the end of their life and to give them meaningful choice about where they are cared for and where they die. Implementation of the strategy has proved challenging, however, for a number of ...