All King's Fund articles – Page 28
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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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CommentNew thinking about the future of maternity care
Old assumptions are stopping maternity services from improving
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HSJ KnowledgeThe 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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CommentTransforming primary care: let's start with the basics
Improving primary care is key to meeting demand for better NHS services
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NewsFunding 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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CommentIs the government doing enough?
Experienced leaders will have to prevent cracks in the system as the NHS changes
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NewsFrancis appoints health policy heavyweights to review recommendations
Robert Francis QC has appointed four independent experts to help him review the final recommendations of his report following the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust public inquiry.
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BlogsDeveloping integrated care at scale and pace: time to make it happen
There is not one best way to develop integrated care. Politicians, NHS leaders and frontline staff should join together to test different approaches, writes the King’s Fund chief executive Chris Ham.
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NewsExclusive: Lamb signals new wave of integration experiments
Ministers are planning to support a series of large-scale integrated care “experiments”, which could result in a movement away from payment by results, HSJ can reveal.
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CommentHas payment by results had its day?
King’s Fund report says tariff system is not fit for purpose
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NewsMonitor vows to improve 'not fit for purpose' pricing system
Monitor has vowed to improve the NHS treatment pricing system after a King’s Fund report said the payment by results system was “not fit for purpose”.
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Blogs
Healthcare in the US election: fact, fiction and Big Bird
While the focus of the 2008 US election was healthcare (and the colour of the candidates’ ties), the 2012 election is all about money (and the colour of the candidates’ ties).Over the past few weeks, money and jobs have typically dominated the presidential and vice presidential debates. That said, healthcare ...
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NewsHSJ Briefing: general practice services and policy
The growing pressure for general practice to meet rising NHS demand rests on a slow but steady path of improvement
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Blogs
First do no harm: lessons from service reconfiguration in London
King’s Fund chief executive Chris Ham reflects on attempts to reconfigure services in the capital
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NewsNHS commissioners could be made to pool budgets with councils
Care and Support Bill may require CCGs to pool budgets with local authorities
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NewsA&E performance at its worst for seven years
More trusts failed the four hour accident and emergency target in the first quarter of 2012-13 than in any first quarter since 2004-05, a King’s Fund analysis has found.
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NewsBoard mandate may be shortened
The government is preparing to significantly shorten and simplify its mandate to the NHS Commissioning Board, HSJ has learned. It comes in the wake of widespread criticism of the draft version.
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NewsLamb: NHS cannot fund social care reform
Care services minister Norman Lamb has said social care reform should not be funded from the NHS budget because the health service is already under financial pressure.