Leadership and system transformation in mental healthIn a recent blog post, Helen Gilburt, Fellow, Health Policy at The King’s Fund, explores the importance of leadership and collaboration in delivering effective care and system transformation for the future. Read more »
Service transformation: Lessons from mental healthThis briefing paper, published by The King’s Fund, explores the context and factors that have enabled change to happen in mental health services in the past 30 years. It includes 10 lessons for service transformation based on these experiences. Read more »
Health and wellbeing boards: One year onThis report, published by The King’s Fund, examines how health and wellbeing boards have used their shadow year, what they have achieved, and whether they are providing effective leadership across local systems of care. Read more »
Co-ordinated care for people with complex chronic conditions: Key lessons and markers for successThis report, published by The King’s Fund, explores the key components of effective co-ordinated care through a study of five UK-based programmes that deliver co-ordinated care for people with long-term and complex needs. Read more »
The Esteem Team Co-ordinated care in the Sandwell Integrated Primary Care Mental Health and Wellbeing ServiceThis case study is part of a research project undertaken by The King’s Fund and funded by Aetna and the Aetna Foundation in the USA to compare five successful UK-based models of care co-ordination. Read more »
Don Berwick on clinical leadershipIn this video, Richard Bohmer, Professor of Medical Leadership, Harvard Business School and International Fellow at The King’s Fund, speaks with Don Berwick, Founder and former President, IHI, about the role of clinicians in leadership. Read more »
Transforming mental health services for young people who offendThis video, produced by the King’s Fund, profiles the work of MAC-UK a charity which engages with some of the UK’s most excluded and deprived young people who are most in need of support, but least likely to access it. Read more »
Transforming our health care system: Ten priorities for commissionersThis briefing paper, published by The King’s Fund, sets out ten priorities for commissioners to help them to deliver a sustainable system in the face of the most challenging financial and organisational environment seen in decades. Read more »
Making integrated care happen at scale and pace: Lessons from experienceThis briefing paper, published by The King’s Fund, draws on examples of good practice to set out the 16 steps that need to be taken to make integrated care a reality. Read more »
Michael West on high quality careIn this video produced by the King’s Fund, Michael West, Professor of Organisational Psychology at Lancaster University Management School, explores how to develop a culture of high quality care in the NHS. Read more »
Jessica Allen on tackling health inequalitiesIn this video Jessica Allen, Project Director of Health Inequalities Review for England, UCL Institute of Health Equity, draws on findings from the Marmot Review to look at how health inequalities and life expectancies vary across the English population, and how we can tackle these inequalities in the future. Read more »
Volunteering in health and care: Securing a sustainable futureThis briefing paper, published by The King’s Fund, considers the role and value of volunteers in health and social care. Read more »
Payment by Results: How can payment systems help to deliver better care?This report, published by The King’s Fund, reviews the role and objectives of payment systems in the English NHS, focusing on Payment by Results (PbR). Read more »
Improving the quality of care in general practiceThis is the report of an independent inquiry commissioned by the King’s Fund into the quality of general practice in England. Read more »
Transforming the delivery of health and social careThis paper, published by The King’s Fund, explores how the current health and social care delivery system has failed to keep pace with the population’s needs and expectations.
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Long-term conditions and mental health: The cost of co-morbiditiesThis paper, published jointly by The King’s Fund and the Centre for Mental Health, suggests that developing more integrated support for people with mental and physical health problems could improve outcomes and play an important part in helping the NHS meet the quality, innovation, productivity and prevention challenge. Read more »
Developing effective leadership in the NHS to maximise the quality of patient careUsing feedback from a number of experienced NHS leaders, Chris Roebuck reviews past NHS leadership development and identifies leadership development options from the commercial sector that would benefit the NHS. Read more »
Leadership in context: Lessons from new leadership theory and current leadership development practiceKim Turnbull James outlines some of the latest thinking in leadership theory and leadership development and includes three case studies of leadership development programmes which incorporate these ideas. The author suggests that a traditional conception of leadership, in which leadership is largely equated to leaders’ competences, behaviours and values, needs at the very least to… Read more »
Followership in the NHSThis paper suggests that the current focus on leadership underestimates the role of followers in securing a successful health service and overestimates the ability of individual ‘heroic’ leaders to make a significant difference to all circumstances. Read more »
The roles of leaders in high-performing health care systemsThis paper reviews five health care systems that are viewed as ‘high-performing’, using cross-case methods to identify the key factors linked to their success, examining their leadership strategies, organisational processes and the investments they made to create and sustain improvements in care. Read more »