Estimating NHS and social care spend: a tool for commissioners

"This tool estimates how a local care economy spends its money by age group, patient group and care settings."

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

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A new settlement for health and social care

"The solution, we believe, is to have a single, ring-fenced budget for health and social care which is singly commissioned, and within which entitlements are much more closely aligned."

A new settlement for health and social care: interim report
The King's Fund
2014

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Better procurement, better value, better care

"There is too much variation across the NHS - far too many examples of different solutions to the same problem and wildly different prices being paid for the same product."

Better procurement, better value, better care: a procurement development programme for the NHS
Department of Health
August 2013

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Supporting working carers

"This report is a landmark statement from business and Government that more can and should be done to support people who want to combine caring for a family member with working."

Supporting working carers: the benefits to families, business and the economy
HM Government
August 2013

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Looking for value in hard times

"This report describes how NHS Sheffield used a new approach, called Star (‘socio-technical allocation of resources’), to re-allocate resources within its eating disorder services."

Looking for value in hard times
The Health Foundation
August 2012

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Reform: The next ten years

This collection of 73 essays on the next ten years of UK government, economy and public services, has been published by the independent think tank Reform.

Reform: The next ten years
Edited by Nick Seddon
Reform
2012

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