All King's Fund articles – Page 2
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CommentThe charity sector is key to overcoming the NHS's organisational barriers
Charities overcome organisational barriers to embed their services, develop imaginative and proactive solutions to local issues, and are extremely effective at reaching the community’s most vulnerable members, writes Lisa Weaks
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CommentPolitics and the NHS: can the link be broken?
Sir Chris Ham talks about the current crisis as a reflection of a political system dominated by short-term thinking and unwillingness to deal with long-term challenges
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CommentDigital exclusion is not solved by enabling online access alone
To make digitally enabled healthcare more inclusive requires co-producing services to meet the needs of various population groups with different levels of digital functionality for patients to choose from, writes Pritesh Mistry
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News£2bn ICS debt from ‘CCG screw-ups’ should be written off, says Confed
NHS England has been urged to write off £2.2bn in historic debts that integrated care systems could be asked to repay.
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NewsSecond think tank chief stands down
Richard Murray, the chief executive of the health service’s best known think tank – The King’s Fund – will step down later this year.
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CommentHow ICBs can help people die at home
Ruth Robertson highlights the need for ICBs to work through immediate pressures to deliver good quality and coordinated end-of-life care services
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News‘NHS factors’ lead to more than a third of delayed discharges
More than a third of delayed discharges for long-stay patients are being caused by factors generally associated with the NHS, according to new data obtained by HSJ.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: Bewilderment over new elective targets
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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CommentThe three lessons from history that can help the NHS cut the elective backlog
The King’s Fund published its study of strategies to tackle high waiting times in the past, which offers hope for bringing down the backlog. Shilpa Ross and Nicola Blythe highlight few factors from this research that would help the NHS meet the national average waiting time
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HSJ PartnersEverybody wins if we make prevention and early diagnosis a priority
Geoff Twist, managing director at Roche Diagnostic UK & Ireland sheds light on how prevention and early diagnosis can reap better health benefits for patients, helping address immediate challenges the NHS is facing
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CommentCan integrated care systems survive their birth?
Nicholas Timmins draws conclusions from the recent interviews held by King’s Fund, highlighting concerns of leading ICS chairs as well as their optimism on the progress that can be made
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: Fresh challenges in counting and cleaning the waiting list
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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NewsNHS England considers substantive return to ‘payment by results’
NHS England is considering a substantive shift to a ‘payment by results’ model from April, in a bid to drive up elective activity.
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News‘Real worry’ as two-thirds of ICSs fall into the red
Two out of three integrated care systems have fallen off track on their financial plans, with many now facing the prospect of having to report sizeable deficits in their first year of operation.
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NewsTreasury: No new NHS funding to deal with soaring inflation
The NHS is set to face a three-year funding squeeze after the government said it would not be topping up budgets to cover the impact of inflation.
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NewsRevealed: Best and worst areas for GP patient satisfaction
Analysis of a major patient survey suggests wide variation between GP services in different health systems.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: Why the NHS will struggle to hit 78-week target
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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Comment‘Every door I try is locked’: how to overcome the barriers to collaboration
Lisa Weaks on the importance of sharing work equitably, recognising different contributions and how the Health and Care Act presents genuine opportunities to create change
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News‘Impossible’ to improve delayed discharges as picture worsens
The number of patients stuck in hospitals despite being ‘medically fit’ to leave has continued to increase in recent months, leading to warnings from NHS Confederation that trusts are finding it ‘impossible’ to make progress on reducing the numbers.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The swollen centre
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care and commissioning. This week by primary care reporter Shruti Sheth Trivedi.