All King's Fund articles – Page 27
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News
Minimum nurse staffing levels 'not the answer', says minister
Health minister Dan Poulter appeared yesterday to reject the Francis Report’s call for nationally recognised minimum nurse staffing levels.
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News
Francis hits back at inquiry report critics
Robert Francis QC has defended his report against criticisms it failed to hold senior figures to account and contained too many recommendations.
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Blogs
NHS leaders of the future: more Thatcher or Nyborg?
NHS leaders could do worse than taking notes from Borgen prime minister Birgitte Nyborg on building alliances with others and finding unlikely common causes, says Chris Ham
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News
Anna Dixon appointed as DH quality and strategy director
King’s fund director of policy Anna Dixon is to join the Department of Health as director of quality and strategy.
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News
A&E waits 'hit decade high'
The number of patients who are forced to wait for more than four hours in accident and emergency departments before being treated has reached its highest level in a decade, a new report suggests.
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Comment
We must spend more on changing behaviour
Behavioural change can improve health and be cost effective
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Comment
Real policy dilemma is about spending, not saving
The future debate will be between more tax or more private healthcare
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Comment
A vison for better mental healthcare
Acceptance, choice and dignity should be central to care
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News
Care 'could consume half spending'
Health and social care could consume half of government spending in 50 years’ time, the King’s Fund has predicted.
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News
Burnham plans £60bn NHS cash handover to councils
The vast majority of NHS funding would be handed to councils under radical proposals being developed by the shadow health secretary.
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Comment
Can greater transparency expose future care failures?
The government sees openness as key to preventing failures
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News
Failed NHS managers could face blacklisting
Ministers are considering creating a “blacklist” of NHS managers who preside over failure and would be prevented from working in the health service again, HSJ understands.
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HSJ Knowledge
Break away from 'heroic' leadership
The peloton shows competition and cooperation can go together in the NHS
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Comment
Shifting care closer to home: slogan or solution?
We must reimagine the wider health and social care system
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Comment
New thinking about the future of maternity care
Old assumptions are stopping maternity services from improving
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HSJ Knowledge
The knowns and the unknowns about how CCGs will work
There are still questions about how CCGs will operate from April
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Blogs
The prospects for health and social care in 2013
The pressure and demands on the NHS in 2013 will be so great it will be impossible to duck the big questions about what kind of health and care system we are willing to fund.
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Comment
Transforming primary care: let's start with the basics
Improving primary care is key to meeting demand for better NHS services
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News
Funding pressure 'may hit NHS care', warns thinktank
Waiting times in emergency wards are rising as unprecedented financial strains on the health service start to bite, a report suggests.
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Comment
Is the government doing enough?
Experienced leaders will have to prevent cracks in the system as the NHS changes