This is a consultancy report by The King's Fund for the Rheumatology Futures Group, a consortium of the main patient, professional and pharmaceutical organisations involved in rheumatoid arthritis care. and Improving the quality of care for patients with long-term conditions is a priority at national and local levels in the NHS. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, progressive and disabling autoimmune condition that affects around 420,000 people in the United Kingdom. RA is associated with substantial health, social and economic ...
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.
This paper is a formal response to the Department of Health’s draft guidance on proposals for regulations and guidance in relation to the draft legislation on personal care at home currently before Parliament.
This consultation response includes the following overarching observations. First, it is vital that reform addresses the significant overall underfunding of adult social care and the high levels of unmet need. Second, the challenge is not simply about responding to additional numbers of older people. It is also about addressing the ...
This paper is a response by The King's Fund to the NHS Litigation Authority's Pilot Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts Maternity Clinical Risk Management Standards.
The King's Fund's response to the Department of Health's consultation on options for the future of Payment by Results (PbR), investigating whether ambitions for PbR might be mutually exclusive, and whether, as a single policy lever, PbR can be expected to help achieve any or all of these ambitions.