Implementing the NHS five year forward view

"While the direction set by the Forward View has been broadly welcomed, it risks suffering the same fate as previous policy documents unless serious attention is given to the policy changes needed to support local leaders to make new care models a reality"

Implementing the NHS five year forward view: Aligning policies with the plan
C Ham, R Murray

The King's Fund

February 2015

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NHS healthcare providers: working with choice and competition

"Being able to choose a provider can directly benefit patients. Effective patient choice incentivises providers to deliver higher quality and more efficient services than would otherwise be the case. For choice to be effective, patients need to be well informed about the options that are available to them. Patients need to know when they have choices, what choices are available, and how the different options compare."

NHS healthcare providers: working with choice and competition
Monitor
September 2014

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Estimating NHS and social care spend: a tool for commissioners

"This Excel-based tool aims to help NHS commissioners by approximating how their local care economy spends its money by age group, patient group and care settings, and how this may evolve over time. By filling in some basic variables, commissioners can create a quick, indicative patient segmentation for their locality."

Estimating NHS and social care spend: a tool for commissioners
Monitor
September 2014

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Well-led framework for governance reviews

"Monitor, CQC and NHS TDA have committed to developing an aligned framework for making judgements about how well led NHS providers are. By ‘well led’ we mean that the leadership, management and governance of the organisation assure the delivery of high quality care for patients, support learning and innovation and promote an open and fair culture." 

Well-led framework for governance reviews: guidance for NHS foundation trusts 
Monitor
May 2014

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Working to make the payment system do more for patients

"The main context for our work over the next year is the need for new and sustainable patterns of care that can do more for patients. Here, we describe how we are working towards a longer-term redesign of the payment system that will help meet that need, and how locally-led innovations encouraged by the 2014/15 national tariff are a first step in that direction."

How Monitor and NHS England are working to make the payment system do more for patients from 2015/16
Monitor and NHS England
February 2014

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Monitor: Regulating NHS foundation trusts

"This report examines whether Monitor’s regulation of NHS foundation trusts has been effective."

Monitor: Regulating NHS foundation trusts
A Morse, Controller and Auditor General
National Audit Office

February 2014

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Closing the NHS funding gap

"So, can the £30bn a year gap be closed through efficiency savings by 2021? The general consensus at the roundtable was probably not, given the current pressures on the health system and the impact of funding cuts on other public services. However, participants did recognise that significant improvements in efficiency could be made..."

Closing the NHS funding gap: Can it be done through greater efficiency? (Summary of a roundtable discussion, 30 January 2014)
The Health Foundation
February 2014

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