All King's Fund articles – Page 28
-
News
Francis 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.
-
Blogs
Developing 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.
-
News
Exclusive: 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.
-
Comment
Has payment by results had its day?
King’s Fund report says tariff system is not fit for purpose
-
News
Monitor 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”.
-
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 ...
-
News
HSJ 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
-
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
-
News
NHS commissioners could be made to pool budgets with councils
Care and Support Bill may require CCGs to pool budgets with local authorities
-
News
A&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.
-
News
Board 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.
-
News
Lamb: 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.
-
Comment
Fixing the broken system
Urgent action is needed to change how health and social care are delivered
-
News
Local schemes fall behind in NHS’s drive for efficiency
The true performance of the NHS’s efficiency drive can be revealed after HSJ obtained the Department of Health’s QIPP tracker.
-
Blogs
Improving the health of the poorest, fastest: why clusters of lifestyle behaviours matter
When the coalition came to power I, like many others, was nervous about whether the government would see inequality reduction as one of its core aims.
-
HSJ Knowledge
A collaborative operation
Charities and the NHS should work together to deliver joined-up care patients deserve
-
News
NHS 'could save £462m' on over-65s
The NHS could save nearly half a billion pounds annually by reducing emergency admissions and hospital stays among older patients, according to a King’s Fund report shared with HSJ.
-
Comment
The argument over NHS competition isn't settled yet
How strong is the evidence in support of increased competition in the NHS? The question was raised again last week, with the publication of a paper by the NHS Co-operation and Competition Panel.