Alongside the Social Care Vision, the Department of Health has launched Transparency in Outcomes: a framework for adult social care - a consultation on a new strategic approach to quality and outcomes in adult social care. The consultation envisages an enabling framework which places outcomes at the heart of social ...
Health care workforce planning is highly complex and multi-layered and involves different timelines for different professions and occupations. It is made particularly difficult by the long timelines associated with medical workforce planning. Our previous work suggested that these complexities make it is impossible to get workforce planning ‘right’, not least ...
This is an overall response and reflection on the White Paper Healthy Lives, Healthy People (Department of Health 2010) and the associated consultations on the outcomes framework and commissioning and funding mechanisms. We welcome the opportunity to respond to the Department’s proposals in the spirit of improving them further and ...
This paper responds to the Health Select Committee's inquiry into the future of social care funding and the case for major reform of the existing system.
This is The King's Fund's response to the independent review by the Nuffield Trust commissioned by the Secretary of State for Health to consider whether aggregate ratings of provider performance should be used in health and social care. Overall, while TKF supports the government’s commitment to make more information about ...
The King’s Fund welcomes the development of the mandate to hold the NHS Commissioning Board to account for £80 billion public money. It is important that the mandate is well designed to ensure the Board can be effectively held accountable for its activities.
This response is one of two submitted by The King’s Fund to the government’s consultations: on an information revolution and on greater choice and control. These responses are also available on our website, together with our previous consultation responses on regulation, outcomes, democratic legitimacy and commissioning, and the original response ...