All King's Fund articles – Page 31
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Comment
'Integrated care should be this decade's number one priority'
Achieving proper integrated care must be taken as seriously in the next 10 years as waiting times have been in the last 10, say King’s Fund chief executive Chris Ham and Nuffield Trust director Jennifer Dixon.
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News
Integrated care needs 'ambitious' target to succeed, DH told
Ministers will be in a “difficult position” if they ignore advice to set a national target to drive integrated care, the chief executive of the King’s Fund has warned.
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Blogs
Locating the right evidence for merger decisions
Candace Imison asks whether potentially merging trusts’ evidence will meet the Competition and Cooperation panel’s exacting review standards, and what the challenge means for the 20 currently unviable trusts in the FT status pipeline.
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News
Government unveils extra £150m for home care
The government has announced an extra £150m for patients to receive care at home rather than in hospital.
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News
NHS trust sector in England 'heading towards deficit'
The NHS trust sector could be “heading for deficit” in 2011-12. Health economists made the warning after HSJ research revealed deepening problems among the financially weakest providers.
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News
London NHS strategy has 'no clear lead'
The NHS in London faces a “strategic vacuum” with no clear lead to drive through change, The King’s Fund has said.
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News
New inflation measure boosts 'real terms' increase in NHS funds
Technical changes to the way the Office for National Statistics calculates inflation have pushed up the “real terms” funding increase the NHS will receive over the life of this parliament, the King’s Fund’s chief economist said today.
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News
Price competition fears over provider penalties
New rules requiring NHS commissioners to penalise healthcare providers that “cherry pick” easier cases will be difficult to enforce and will encourage price competition, experts have warned.
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News
DH denies tariff adjustment rule revives price competition
The Department of Health has been forced to deny that a measure in the NHS Operating Framework 2012-13 could introduce price competition on elective procedures.
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Comment
'This is the kind of disruptive innovation the NHS needs'
The US integrated healthcare system Kaiser Permanente is an example of ‘innovative disruption’ in all its joined-up glory. The King’s Fund chief executive Chris Ham highlights some of the benefits a similar system could give the NHS.
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HSJ Knowledge
Setting out the principles for integrated care
Patient Voices policy director Don Redding outlines some principles that should guide commissioners, regulators and professional groups in integrating health and social care services.
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Blogs
If the NHS is doing well, why is it changing?
A recent Commonwealth Fund survey saw respondents praise the NHS. So are the reforms aimed at addressing the right problems?
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Comment
Devloping new structures for improved service delivery
Now is a golden opportunity to start developing guidelines and principles to inform better healthcare delivery, says Paul Zollinger-Read
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Comment
Is the GP contract a barrier to integrated care?
There is a serious need to look at how GPs operate if integrated care is to successfully make the difference the government, and the sector, is pinning its hopes on, says King’s Fund director of policy Anna Dixon.
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News
King's Fund and Future Forum challenge GP contract 'barrier'
The King’s Fund is throwing its weight behind proposals to define and expand the services required from NHS GP contractors.
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News
GPs underperforming on quality and outcomes face 'serious questions'
Scores of GP practices in deprived areas are consistently failing to demonstrate clinical quality under a national incentive scheme, analysis by HSJ has found.
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News
King's Fund warns Monitor is at risk of 'political interference'
Monitor faces a “considerable” risk of failing in its role as an economic regulator and is too vulnerable to interference by ministers, the King’s Fund has warned.
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News
Hospital death rate focus will disappear - Keogh
Interest in hospital mortality indicators will “wane” within three years as clinicians produce dozens of service-specific quality measures, the NHS medical director has predicted.
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News
Dilnot social care proposals are 'regressive', says Lansley
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has told a meeting of councillors that he believes the Dilnot Commission’s proposals on care funding reform are “regressive”, HSJ understands.