Health Foundation Representation to the 2015 Comprehensive Spending Review

"This document contains the submission from the Health Foundation to the 2015 Comprehensive Spending Review"

Health Foundation Representation to the 2015 Comprehensive Spending Review
The Health Foundation
September 2015

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Making change possible: A Transformation Fund for the NHS

"To ensure that the substantive changes required can be achieved, we argue that the NHS needs dedicated funding – a Transformation Fund – to deliver the change required, aligned with more effective practical support and the right policy context for change."

Making change possible: A Transformation Fund for the NHS
R Murray et al.
The Health Foundation, The King's Fund
July 2015

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The Budget: health and social care funding

"There are still significant opportunities to improve productivity, and the NHS must redouble its efforts to deliver better outcomes at lower cost by changing the way clinical care is delivered."

The Budget: health and social care funding
The King's Fund
July 2015

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Scaling Up Improvement - applications for funding

The Health Foundation are looking for health care improvement projects in which to invest up to £3 million. Successful projects will demonstrate how improvements have been made on both a small and large scale, with the aim to promote wider adoption across the UK.

Find out more here.

Health in the 2015 General Election: An analysis of party manifestos

"This briefing provides analysis of and commentary on the manifesto pledges of the parties that have made up the opposition or government in the most recent parliament – the Conservative, Liberal Democrat and Labour parties."

Health in the 2015 General Election: An analysis of party manifestos
Nuffield Trust
April 2015

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Competition and privatisation in the NHS

"In this briefing we consider seven key questions relating to the role of competition and the role of non-NHS providers within the NHS."

Evolution, revolution or confusion? Competition and privatisation in the NHS
E Spencelayh
The Health Foundation
March 2015

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Improving the accuracy of operation coding in surgical discharge summaries

" We suggest that specifically designed coding tables be introduced across each surgical department to ensure accurate OPCS codes are used to produce better quality surgical discharge summaries and to ensure correct reimbursement to the Trust."

Improving the accuracy of operation coding in surgical discharge summaries
E Martinou, G Shouls, N Betambeau
BMJ Quality Improvement Reports 2014;3

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Financial failure in the NHS

"This report describes the current financial state of the NHS and the drivers of financial failure before setting out the approaches used to avert financial failure or to deal with it once it occurs. We finish with some recommendations for the future. "

Financial failure in the NHS: What causes it and how best to manage it
R Murray, C Imison, J Jabbal
October 2014

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A new settlement for health and social care

"A new settlement is needed for health and social care in England that breaks down the historic divide between the two systems and provides a much simpler path through the current maze of health and social care."

A new settlement for health and social care: Final report
K Barker
The King's Fund
September 2014

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How is the NHS performing?

"As the NHS starts its fourth year with effectively no real increase in funding and faced with undiminished urgency to generate more care to meet growing demands, it is of little surprise that our latest survey of finance directors reveals continuing pessimism about the financial position of health organisations and local health economies."

How is the NHS performing? Quarterly monitoring report
The King's Fund
July 2014

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Funding opportunity: Innovating for Improvement programme

The Health Foundation are making 1.5 million pounds available to fund innovative quality improvement projects.

Find out more and make your application here.

Funding schemes for innovative medical devices

"To manage the uncertainty surrounding the reimbursement of innovation, several European countries have set up temporary funding schemes to generate evidence about the effectiveness of devices. This article explores two different French approaches to funding innovative in-hospital devices and collecting supplementary data."

Special funding schemes for innovative medical devices in French hospitals: The pros and cons of two different approaches
N Martellia, H van den Brink
Health Policy, April 2014

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Solving the NHS care and cash crisis

“We have, in short, a health and care system that is both unnecessarily expensive and poorly designed to meet modern needs.”

Solving the NHS care and cash crisis: routes to health and care renewal
N Warner, J O’Sullivan
Reform
March 2014

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A new settlement for health and social care

"In our view, the weight of evidence makes it clear that the present settlement lacks transparency, is inefficient, puts too much weight on individual rather than collective responsibility, and raises a significant moral concern about the lack of equity of treatment for similar levels of need."

A new settlement for health and social care: Interim report
K Barker (Chair), Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England
The King’s Fund
April 2014

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Care in crisis: what’s next for social care?

"The care system in England is in crisis. Older people, their families and carers are often placed under incredible pressure navigating a system which is confusing and unfair. Many are denied access to help, while others are forced to sacrifice what they have worked all their lives for."

Care in crisis: what’s next for social care?
Age UK
January 2014
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Commissioning and funding general practice

"This paper describes the current system of commissioning and funding general practice and how this is being used in four areas of England to develop innovative models of primary care provision."

Commissioning and funding general practice: Making the case for family care networks
Rachael Addicott, Chris Ham
The King's Fund
February 2014

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Everyone counts: planning for patients 2014/15 to 2018/19

"Last year’s guidance identified stronger commissioning as a key theme for driving change. This section has set out those things which local commissioners need to include in their plans which will deliver the change they want to see."

Everyone counts: planning for patients 2014/15 to 2018/19
NHS England
December 2013

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The role of charging in healthcare

"There is growing evidence that the NHS is facing a funding challenge as demand grows and the level of funding available declines."

The cost of our health: the role of charging in healthcare
T Cawston, C Corrie
Reform
November 2013

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Spending on health and social care to 2015-16

"This briefing examines the key issues underlying debates on health funding."

Spending on health and social care to 2015-16: Parliamentary briefing
Nuffield Trust
July 2013

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Management of long term conditions

"Our analysis concluded that without unprecedented, sustained increases in health service productivity, including more effective management of chronic conditions, funding for the NHS in England will need to increase in real terms between 2015/16 and 2021/22 to avoid cuts to the service or a fall in quality."

Management of long term conditions: Health Committee inquiry submission: Parliamentary Briefing
Nuffield Trust
May 2013

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