Briefing: The Care Bill second reading in the House of Commons

"While The King’s Fund welcomes the Bill as an important stepping stone to wider reform of care and support, it will not solve the social care funding challenge, nor will it deliver the change needed to meet future health and care needs."

Briefing: The Care Bill second reading in the House of Commons
The King's Fund
December 2013

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Healthcare reform: implications for knowledge translation in primary care

"The aim of this paper is to determine what works to facilitate evidence-based sexual healthcare within the primary care sector."

Healthcare reform: implications for knowledge translation in primary care
A Dadich, H Hosseinzadeh
BMC Health Services Research, 2013, 13:490

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NHS in transition: key questions

"The most costly care – typically hospital based care – should ideally be used only when necessary, and non-hospital based alternatives should be encouraged, provided that they can help patients for less cost."

NHS in transition: key questions
Nuffield Trust
November 2013

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Draft framework of excellence in clinical commissioning: for CCGs

"Large scale system change in health and social care is complex and challenging and driving such change takes strategic, collaborative leadership, built on a compelling vision for the future."

Draft framework of excellence in clinical commissioning: for CCGs
S Rutherford, J Simon
The NHS Constitution
November 2013

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Performance-based financing as a health system reform

"The paper lays out a broad framework within which indicators can be prioritised for monitoring and evaluation of performance-based financing or other health system reforms."

Performance-based financing as a health system reform: mapping the key dimensions for monitoring and evaluation
S Witter, J Toonen, B Meessen, J Kagubare, G Fritsche, K Vaughan
BMC Health Services Research 2013, 13:367

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Managing the transition to the reformed health system

"This report examines how the Department of Health and the NHS implemented the transition from the existing to the reformed health system."

Managing the transition to the reformed health system
National Audit Office
July 2013

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Reforming healthcare systems on a locally integrated basis

"Health system reforms aimed at creating geographically based networks influenced primary healthcare practices both among themselves (horizontal collaborations) and with hospitals (vertical collaborations)."

Reforming healthcare systems on a locally integrated basis: is there a potential for increasing collaborations in primary healthcare?
M Breton, R Pineault, JF Levesque, D Roberge, R Borges Da Silva, A Prudhomme
BMC Health Services Research, 2013, 13:262

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Flat lining: lack of progress on NHS reform

"One of the consequences of reduced public spending in this Parliament has been innovation and change in the public services affected."

Flat lining: lack of progress on NHS reform
T Cawston, C Corrie, C Fraser, T Macpherson
Reform
June 2013

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Paying for social care: beyond Dilnot

"Reform has been made harder because of the fragmented way the social care system has evolved, leaving a system that is criss-crossed with fault lines between NHS and local authority social care, private and public funding, and private and public delivery."

Paying for social care: beyond Dilnot
R Humphries
The King's Fund
May 2013

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Healthcare reform in the NHS England

"This report provides an overview of England’s journey to enacting the Health and Social Care Act 2012 and a summary of the transformed delivery of health services within the NHS England."

Healthcare reform in the NHS England: more lessons for Ontario
The Change Foundation
March 2013

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Lessons for the new NHS from departing health leaders

"Time. Time and transparency, and clinical engagement. These are the three issues that come roaring out of these interviews with ‘the dear departed’ – a clutch of recent NHS chief executives and other health leaders who were asked what advice they would deliver to their successors as the new NHS structures go live in April 2013."

Changing of the guard: lessons for the new NHS from departing health leaders
Edited by Nicholas Timmins
Nuffield Trust
Issue 3 - March 2013

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Joint commissioning in health and social care

"This study confirms the findings of numerous previous studies of patient and public involvement; that it is difficult, time consuming and fragile in the face of radical organisational or policy change."

Joint commissioning in health and social care: an exploration of definitions, processes, services and outcomes
H Dickinson, J Glasby, A Nicholds, S Jeffares, S Robinson, H Sullivan
National Institute for Health Research
January 2013

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Health policy under the coalition government

"This report looks at the policies introduced by the coalition government elected in May 2010 and assesses whether they will address the current and emerging performance issues and what further action is needed."

Health policy under the coalition government: a mid-term assessment
S Gregory, A Dixon, C Ham (eds)
The King's Fund
November 2012

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International profiles of health care systems, 2012

"Each overview covers health insurance, public and private financing, health system organization, quality of care, health disparities, efficiency and integration, care coordination, use of health information technology, use of evidence-based practice, cost containment, and recent reforms and innovations."

International profiles of health care systems: Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Japan, Iceland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States
The Commonwealth Fund
November 2012

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The growing role of Emergency Departments in hospital admissions

"Growing use of U.S. emergency departments (EDs), cited as a key contributor to rising health care costs, has become a leading target of health care reform."

The growing role of Emergency Departments in hospital admissions
JD Schuur, AK Venkatesh
New England Journal of Medicine, 2012, 367(5):391-393

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Reforming social care: options for funding

"This paper examines the current level of funding of social care and the Dilnot Commission’s recommendations and suggests ways of funding a fairer, more sustainable system of social care."

Reforming social care: options for funding
A Charlesworth, R Thorlby
May 2012

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Governing public hospitals

"For hospital governance to be effective, it must incorporate two powerful and well-developed lines of health sector logic: on the one hand, national health policy and objectives; on the other, operational hospital management."

Governing public hospitals: reform strategies and the movement towards institutional autonomy
Edited by RB Saltman, A Duran, HFW Dubois
European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
November 2011

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