All King's Fund articles – Page 32
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Comment
'The success of integrated care depends upon our commitment to innovation'
The importance of integration to health and social care is undoubted, but there is still some confusion over how it will work. It is up to leaders at both a national and local level to develop new approaches that will ensure integrated care is a success, says Dr Rebecca Rosen.
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News
Finance directors 'optimistic' on savings plans but local fears persist
NHS finance directors are “cautiously optimistic” about their savings plans but increasingly pessimistic about the finances of their local health economies, a King’s Fund survey has revealed.
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News
NHS savings measures needed until 2020, King's Fund warns
The financial squeeze driving the NHS’s £20bn savings programme will not end in 2015, and the service faces a “productivity gap” of half as much again in the subsequent five years, the chief economist of the King’s Fund has warned.
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HSJ Local
Peterborough in preventative strategy talks
PERFORMANCE: NHS organisations in Peterborough are planning to focus on preventative services, after a meeting was held to discuss strategic planning in the city.
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News
NHS 'holding up well' but pressures growing, report warns
The NHS is “holding up well” at a national level but there are significant pressures in some organisations, according to a new report.
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News
Thirty trusts set to miss aspirational target for FT status
Nearly 30 trusts are unlikely to hit the government’s intended date for them to become foundation trusts, the National Audit Office has warned.
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Comment
'The NHS needs to avoid the wrong kind of integration'
Now that the government accepts that integrated care has a major role to play in the NHS, we must avoid the pitfalls that could prevent it delivering proper benefits to patients, argues King’s Fund chief executive Chris Ham.
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News
Providing integrated care won't be easier for CCGs, study suggests
Clinical commissioning groups will find it no easier than primary care trusts to provide integrated care unless they are able to overcome perverse incentives, a report has found.
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News
Drop in admission rates hailed as possible CCG success
A drop in hospital admission rates has been hailed by NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson as evidence that clinical commissioning is beginning to deliver improvements in care.
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News
Health Bill amendments could add 'political pressure' to reconfiguration decisions
Service reconfigurations following the failure of a foundation trust could be open to “political pressures” as a result of a proposed change to the Health Bill, lawyers and think tanks have warned.
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News
Politicians block reforms - King’s Fund
Politicians “often act as a barrier” to essential NHS reforms, The King’s Fund has claimed.
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News
GPs could be influenced by pharma, King's Fund warns
GP prescribing could become commercially biased if clinical commissioning groups buy in support from drug companies, a report commissioned by the King’s Fund has warned.
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Blogs
Survival of the fittest: will social enterprises thrive in the new world?
How will an NHS opening up to “any qualified provider” fit into the government’s Big Society vision? King’s Fund senior research fellow Rachael Addicott looks at whether social enterprises can make the impression the government hopes for in the healthcare sector.
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News
NHS lags behind in social enterprise drive
Reality of opening up health services social enterprises not living up to government rhetoric, King’s Fund argues
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News
Manager impact on clinical outcomes to be measured
The NHS Confederation and the King’s Fund are developing indicators to measure the difference managers make to clinical outcomes, amid growing criticism of health secretary Andrew Lansley’s demand for cuts in health service “administration”.
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Blogs
The five laws for delivering integrated care
The listening exercise is over and the results are in; the NHS Future Forum insists integrated care must underpin how health and social care is delivered – and they are right. But do we really understand what this means, and what it implies?
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News
Commissioning brain drain ‘stripping assets’
HSJ research reveals for the first time the extent of the brain drain caused in the past year by paying off primary care trust managers - half of whom were either clinicians or experts in commissioning and finance.
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HSJ Knowledge
How to get the best outcomes when measuring productivity
Effective use of metrics to drive workforce productivity improvement means carefully defining the inputs and outcomes you need, say Rachael Charlton and colleagues.
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News
Demand management schemes 'not proven'
Schemes being used to manage demand for hospital care have “limited evidence” and some may increase costs, NHS managers have been told.
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News
Warning over social care integration 'barriers'
The barriers to integration between health and social care have worsened in the last year, the president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services has said.