Index Catalog // The King's Fund Digital Archive

Schöpfer:: King's Fund
Publication date:: 2006
Abstract:: Although some of the key planks of the NHS reform programme, such as Payment by Results (PbR) and patient choice, began to take shape from 2003, it is only recently that the Department of Health has begun to publish guidance, aimed at people working within the NHS, that attempts to ...

Schöpfer:: King's Fund
Publication date:: 2006
Abstract:: Practice-based commissioning is a policy that aims to give more influence and control to GP practices in England over how money is spent on health care services. At the moment, the bulk of NHS money is allocated to primary care trusts (PCTs) who then commission and reimburse hospitals (and other ...

Schöpfer:: NHS Alliance, Dixon, Michael, Curry, Natasha, King's Fund, and Lewis, Richard
Publication date:: 2007
Abstract:: Although practice-based commissioning (PBC) receives widespread support among the main political parties and NHS stakeholder groups, implementation of this policy has been slow. The NHS now boasts 'universal coverage' of PBC but in practice this means it has created an environment in which PBC could flourish rather than one in ...

Schöpfer:: Harrison, Anthony, Smith, Alex, King's Fund, and Rosen, Rebecca
Publication date:: 2006
Abstract:: The Cancer Plan has achieved impressive results since it was published in 2000. However, demographic trends, new treatments, increasing survival rates and reforms in the NHS have altered the context in which cancer services operate. Cancer Research UK commissioned this paper to explore how cancer policy should evolve in response ...

Schöpfer:: Curry, Natasha, King's Fund, and Thorlby, Ruth
Publication date:: 2007
Abstract:: Practice-based commissioning (PBC) is a policy intended to give more decision-making power over NHS resources to general practitioners (GPs), and allow them to design and deliver completely new services or commission others to do so. It has a number of underlying policy objectives including delivering more cost effective and convenient ...

Schöpfer:: King's Fund and Thorlby, Ruth
Publication date:: 2007
Abstract:: In December 2006, the Department of Health issued its second 'operating framework', The NHS in England: The operating framework for 2007/08, which provides a set of rules and guidance for NHS organisations in England for the year ahead. Aimed primarily at managers and clinical staff, the operating framework for 2007/8 ...

Schöpfer:: King's Fund
Publication date:: 2005
Abstract:: Evidence from the King's Fund responding to the Health Select Committee's inquiry into potential changes to primary care trusts' functions and numbers arising from the Department of Health document, Commissioning a Patient-Led NHS.

Schöpfer:: King's Fund
Publication date:: 2008
Abstract:: This paper is a response by The King's Fund to the Health Select Committee NHS Next Stage Review inquiry.

Schöpfer:: Liddell, Alasdair, Timmins, Nicholas, and King's Fund
Publication date:: 2008
Abstract:: The pace of change and reform in the NHS has been relentless as government and those who work in the NHS seek ways to improve the service. The King's Fund set up an expert working group to examine how effective the current incentives were in achieving this aim. The group ...

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