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  • improving quality and the value for money., Mental health and the productivity challenge

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    The NHS is facing a significant financial challenge and needs to make substantial improvements in productivity if it is to provide high-quality services without additional funding. Spending on mental health accounts for around ten per cent of the overall health budget and so the mental health sector has a key ...

  • connecting environmental and financial performance., Sustainable health and social care

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    This report is based on a literature review and stakeholder consultation carried out by The King’s Fund on behalf of the National Institute for Health Research and the Social Care Institute for Excellence. The report provides an overview of current knowledge about the environmental impacts of health and social care ...

  • findings from six case studies., Specialists in out-of-hospital settings

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    The King’s Fund visited six services where consultants are delivering or facilitating care outside hospital. This report presents the findings from those visits as case studies. It identifies key characteristics and challenges to this way of working and seeks out evidence of the benefits to patients and the NHS more ...

  • Emergency hospital admissions for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions, identifying the potential for reductions.

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    This data briefing aims to highlight for commissioners the opportunity for improving the quality of care and saving costs that reducing emergency hospital admissions for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions (ACSCs) presents. It uses Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data to examine the sociodemographic patterns of emergency admissions for each ACSC and calculates ...

  • 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 ...

  • Case finding algorithms for patients at risk of re-hospitalisation PARR1 and PARR2.

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    Improving management of high cost patients, especially those with long term conditions, it is increasingly viewed as an important strategy for improving health outcomes and controlling health care expenditures. An essential component of any strategy to improve care and services for these patients is the development of a case finding ...

  • Avoiding hospital admissions, what does the research evidence say?

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    Emergency admissions to hospital are costly to the NHS and also cause disruption to planned health care. Considerable efforts have been made within the health service to reduce emergency admissions, but few primary care trusts have been successful, with some primary care trusts recording an increase. In order to successfully ...

  • towards a healthier future., A vision for population health

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    The King's Fund's vision for population health is to reduce inequalities and achieve health outcomes on a par with the best in the world. We have developed a framework for population health based on four pillars: the wider determinants of health; our health behaviours and lifestyles; the places and communities ...

  • assessing the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme., Tackling variations in clinical care

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    The Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme aims to bring about higher-quality care in hospitals, at lower cost, by reducing unwanted variations in services and practices. It uses national data to identify the variations and outcomes, shares that data with all those concerned with a service – not only ...

  • The King's Fund response to the New Horizons consultation.

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    The emphasis given in New Horizons to the prevention of mental illness and the promotion of positive mental health is welcome, but this must not be allowed to compromise the availability or quality of acute care. Evidence on the cost-effectiveness of proposals is needed, particularly with regard to preventive approaches. ...