The prevalence of chronic disease is rising and many health systems are now seeking to improve the way they respond to the needs of patients with chronic illnesses. The King's Fund and the Commonwealth Fund of New York sponsored a seminar bringing together leading policy-makers, clinicians and academics from England ...
The NHS five year forward view (Forward View), published by NHS England and other national NHS bodies, sets out a shared view on how services need to change and what models of care will be required in the future. While the direction set by the Forward View has been broadly ...
The white paper ‘Equity and excellence: liberating the NHS’ (Department of Health 2010) sets out a wide-ranging set of proposals to reform the NHS. The King’s Fund and Doctors.net.uk have carried out a survey to ascertain doctors’ opinions of the impact of these reforms. This paper summarises the main findings ...
An informed public debate is needed about both the level of future spending on health and social care, and how that spending might be funded. With this in mind, The King's Fund, in collaboration with Ipsos MORI, held two deliberative events with members of the general public.
One in four NHS trusts in England ended 2004 in deficit. The impact of current NHS reforms will be to magnify financial imbalances at a significant number of trusts, with the risk that some of them will fail. But there is no real plan for dealing with failure in the ...
The National Health Service (NHS) in England is in a state of transition as the government pushes forward a programme of significant reform. If the government achieves its stated objectives, the NHS will be transformed from a state-owned commissioning and provision system to one in which care is delivered by ...
The King’s Fund published its first Quarterly Monitoring Report in April 2011 as part of its work to track, analyse and comment on the changes and challenges the NHS is facing. This is the sixth report and aims to take stock of what is happening on the ground, 18 months ...
This article tells the story of the Hospital Pathways Programme
(HPP), a collaborative programme in which five acute trusts worked with The King’s Fund and the Health Foundation to apply techniques, not widely used in the NHS, to improve both processes of care and interactions between staff and patients.
Health and wellbeing boards are an important feature of the reforms introduced by the government in the Health and Social Care Act 2012. Unlike other aspects of the changes, the creation of these new bodies has been widely welcomed and enjoys cross-party support. All upper-tier local authorities set up boards ...