This paper aims to help those planning and implementing major clinical service reconfigurations ensure that change is as evidence-based as possible. It investigates the five key drivers – quality, workforce, cost, access and technology – across 13 clinical service areas, and summarises the research evidence and professional guidance available in ...
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 problem of growing demand for urgent care continues. There have been overall improvements in urgent and emergency care performance but there is wide variation in performance in NHS South of England in both organisations and local systems and signs of decline nationally. This report brings together the key findings ... and This research was carried out by The King's Fund for NHS South of England.