First introduced into health care in the 1980s in the United States, and later developed and championed by Monitor in England as part of its function to support good financial and performance governance in foundation trusts, service-line reporting (SLR) and service-line management (SLM) are one approach to informed clinical leadership ...
This report is based on a literature review and stakeholder consultation carried out by The King’s Fund on behalf of the National Institute for Health Research and the Social Care Institute for Excellence. The report provides an overview of current knowledge about the environmental impacts of health and social care ...
People with long-term physical health conditions - the most frequent users of health care services - commonly experience mental health problems such as depression and anxiety, or dementia in the case of older people. As a result of these co-morbid problems, the prognosis for their long-term condition and the quality ...
In early 2009 The King’s Fund conducted a survey of primary care trusts (PCTs) in England, examining the use of external support for commissioning, and eliciting views on the world class commissioning programme. The survey revealed that PCTs are increasingly turning to external organisations, and the private sector in particular, ...