The NHS under the coalition government

These two reports, published by The King's Fund look at how well the NHS has performed under the coalition government:

• Part one: NHS reform
  C Ham, B Baird, S Gregory, J Jabbal, H Alderwick
  February 2015

• Part two: NHS performance
  J Appleby, B Baird, J Thompson, J Habbal
  March 2015

Parliamentary briefing: Building sustainable GP services

"Some key points on English GP funding, workforce, satisfaction and reform."

Parliamentary briefing: Building sustainable GP services
Nuffield Trust
February 2015

Read more here.

Read the related paper, "Is general practice in crisis?" here.

The state of general practice

"In the run-up to the 2015 General Election, the Nuffield Trust is regularly surveying a panel of 100 health and social care leaders in England for their views on a range of issues, including the state of the NHS and social care system, and what they believe should be the priority areas for reform during the next Parliament."

The state of general practice: the views of health and social care leaders: Health and Social Care Leaders' Panel: Survey no. 2
J Smith, R Thorlby
Nuffield Trust
November 2014

Read more here.

Reforming the NHS from within

"Large-scale structural reforms under successive governments have proved a major distraction and should be avoided in future."

Reforming the NHS from within: beyond hierarchy, inspection and markets
C Ham
The King's Fund
June 2014

Read more here.

Transforming dementia care in hospitals

"All nine Trusts felt that organisations should invest in development programmes such as this to support improvements in the experience of care for people with dementia and their families."

RCN development programme: transforming dementia care in hospitals: evaluation report
University of Worcester Association for Dementia Studies, Royal College of Nursing
2014

Read more here.

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

“Recent cuts to local authority budgets have had a huge impact on the care system, and we are now witnessing the devastating effect of this ever growing funding gap.”

Care in crisis: what’s next for social care?
Age UK
January 2014

Read more here.

From structure to function: the impact of change

“The original overarching aim of this five year project was to investigate how three hospitals redesigned their services to meet the changing health needs of the people they serve.”

From structure to function: the impact of change
University of Birmingham, National Institute for Health Research
March 2014

Read more here.

NHS payment reform: lessons from the past and directions for the future

"To ensure that the long-term reforms to the payment system support the NHS to deliver efficient, high-quality care, Monitor and NHS England need to develop an approach that is comprehensive, focused, aligned with wider system changes, transparent and evidence-based, predictable and credible."

NHS payment reform: lessons from the past and directions for the future
A Charlesworth, L Hawkins, L Marshall
Nuffield Trust
February 2014

Read more here.

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

Read more here.

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

Read more here.

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

Read more here.

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

Read more here.

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

Read more here.

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

Read more here.

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

Read more here.

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

Read more here.

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

Read more here.

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

Read more here.