Constructive comfort: accelerating change in the NHS

"To achieve change at the pace and scale now needed in the NHS requires much careful thinking about the mechanisms employed to effect change. In this report we have focused how best to design national policy on the NHS to accelerate improvements to health care."

Constructive comfort: accelerating change in the NHS 
C Allcock, F Dormon, R Taunt, J Dixon
February 2015

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The NHS under the coalition government - NHS reform

"This paper explores the coalition government’s record on NHS reform by describing the situation it inherited when it came to power in 2010, the policies it has pursued, and (where available) evidence of their impact."

The NHS under the coalition government - Part one: NHS reform
C Ham, B Baird, S Gregory, J Jabbal, H Alderwick
The King's Fund
February 2015

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One chance to get it right

"This document sets out the approach to caring for dying people that health and care organisations and staff caring for dying people in England should adopt in future. The approach should be applied irrespective of the place in which someone is dying: hospital, hospice, own or other home and during transfers between different settings."

One chance to get it right: improving people’s experience of care in the last few days and hours of life
Leadership Alliance for the Care of Dying People
Department of Health
June 2014

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Department of Health Improvement Plan

"The plan has been developed following an assessment of the 4 critical themes of organisational effectiveness: performance; efficiency and innovation; capability; strategic risk and leadership of change. It sets out where the department is currently, what it has achieved, where it needs to be in future and the improvements that the department needs to make to get there."

Department of Health Improvement Plan
Department of Health
April 2014

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Using research to influence policy change and population health improvement

"By applying what we know from translation theory to new challenges for improving population health, we can overcome barriers to dissemination and translation, and support evidence-based decision-making, and practice, in public health."

Using health services research to influence policy change and population health improvement
Academy Health
March 2013

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