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  • Understanding pressures in general practice.

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    Increasing demands on general practice over the past five years - not just a heavier workload but the increasing complexity and intensity of work - have led to a feeling of crisis. The NHS is finding it difficult to recruit and retain sufficient GPs who want to do full-time, patient-facing ... and This report is accompanied by 'A day in the life of a GP'. This typical day in the life of a GP draws on the experiences of several GPs working in different practices who we spoke to as part of the research for this report. It has been reviewed by ...

  • Supporting people to manage their health, an introduction to patient activation.

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    This paper introduces a way of conceptualising and measuring engagement that is known as ‘patient activation’. Patient activation provides a better understanding of why some patients engage fully with their health and others do not. More importantly, the study of patient activation has led to the design of many effective ...

  • making patient-centred care a reality., From vision to action

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    Our first report identified five key themes that the health and social care system must embrace to be sustainable and to ensure quality. This second report is intended to offer a clear strategic direction to achieve the transformational change that is so urgently needed. We have worked with The King’s ... and This article is the collective effort of ten of the leading health and social care organisations in the voluntary sector. The organisations worked with The King’s Fund to establish a common position.

  • ten priorities for commissioners., Transforming our health care system

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    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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • four big technological trends., What will new technology mean for the NHS and its patients?

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    It is notoriously difficult to predict how technological advances will interact with health services and the policy landscape to shape the future of health care. This report provides numerous examples of developments that were anticipated to transform health care, but that failed to deliver – at least in the short ... and To mark the BBC's coverage of the NHS's 70th birthday in July 2018, The King's Fund, the Health Foundation, the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Nuffield Trust have been asked by the BBC to look at five key topics, covering the relative strengths and weaknesses of the health service, ...