In 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 »
This 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 »
This 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 »
This 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 »
This 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 »
In 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 »
This 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 »
This 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 »
This 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 »
In 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 »
In 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 »
This briefing paper, published by The King’s Fund, considers the role and value of volunteers in health and social care. Read more »
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 »
This is the report of an independent inquiry commissioned by the King’s Fund into the quality of general practice in England. Read more »
This 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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This 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 »
This report explores whether the model, prevalent in public service over recent years, of the ‘hero’ chief executive still hold sway? Read more »
Using 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 »
Kim 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 »
This 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 »