Social care: what’s in a name?
Katie Mantell at the King’s Fund – Social care is all around us. More than 1.5 million people in England are employed to provide social care to older and disabled people. And these numbers are...
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Transforming care in England
One of the challenges identified by the Kings Fund for the NHS in England is developing new and better models of care – they write: The ageing population, changing patterns of disease – with more...
Understanding pressures in general practice – The Kings Fund
Increasing demands on general practice over the past five years – not just a heavier workload but the increasing complexity and intensity of work – have led to a feeling of crisis. The NHS is...
Mental health under pressure – King’s Fund appraisal
Introduction Mental health services in England have a history of transformation – replacing long-stay institutions with care in the community, diversifying services to focus support on people with specific needs, and extending access to evidence-based...
Is the NHS delivering enough of the right things?
Hugh Alderwick writes for the King’s Fund – a blog about the problem of overuse in the NHS: where people get services they don’t want or need, which can lead to unnecessary harm and wasted...
Exploring the options for integrated commissioning – NHS
Richard Humphries, Assistant Director of Policy at the King’s Fund explores the options for integrated commissioning: The last reorganisation of the NHS has made the commissioning landscape much more complex and fragmented. Whatever the weaknesses...
NHS £800m deficit and targets crisis – patients ‘at real risk’
The coalition government will leave office with the NHS in the red for the first time in a decade – and with waiting times at their highest in years, independent experts have warned. In a...