Our first report identified five key themes that the health and social care system must embrace to be sustainable and to ensure quality. This second report is intended to offer a clear strategic direction to achieve the transformational change that is so urgently needed. We have worked with The King’s ... and This article is the collective effort of ten of the leading health and social care organisations in the voluntary sector. The organisations worked with The King’s Fund to establish a common position.
Health care commissioners will need to deliver a sustainable system in the face of the most challenging financial and organisational environment seen in decades. They must shift the current emphasis on acute and episodic care towards prevention, self-care and integrated and well co-ordinated care to cope with an aging population ...