Search Constraints

Start Over
Filtering by: Author The King's Fund Remove constraint Author: The King's Fund Subject legislation Remove constraint Subject: legislation

Search Results

  • Briefing : the Health and Social Care bill : second reading in the House of Lords.

    Author:
    The King's Fund
    Publication date:
    Abstract:
    Throughout the debate on the Health and Social Care Bill, The King’s Fund has argued that the real choice is not between stability and change but between reforms that are well designed and deliver benefits to patients and those that are poorly planned and undermine NHS performance. The amendments made ...

  • Briefing : Health and Social Care Bill : report and third reading.

    Author:
    The King's Fund
    Publication date:
    Abstract:
    Throughout the debate on the Health and Social Care Bill, The King's Fund has argued that the real choice is not between stability and change but between reforms that are well designed and deliver benefits to patients and those that are poorly planned and undermine NHS performance. The amendments made ...

  • Health and Social Care Bill briefing : recommital to Public Bill Committee.

    Author:
    The King's Fund
    Publication date:
    Abstract:
    This briefing summarises The King's Fund's response to proposed government amendments to the Health and Social Care Bill. and We welcome the report of the NHS Future Forum and the government's response to its recommendations. The amendments proposed by the government respond to many of the concerns that we and others have raised and will significantly improve the Bill. It now offers a more promising approach to addressing the ...

  • Briefing : The Care Bill : second reading in the House of Commons, Monday 16 December 2013.

    Author:
    The King's Fund
    Publication date:
    Abstract:
    The King’s Fund welcomes the Care Bill as an important stepping stone to wider reform of care and support. By modernising the legal framework for social care and implementing the recommendations of the Dilnot Commission on social care funding, it will significantly improve the way the current system operates and ...

  • Health and Social Care Bill briefing

    Author:
    The King's Fund
    Publication date:
    Abstract:
    The Bill will introduce a step change in the application of market-based principles in the health system, a radical reform of commissioning, and the biggest reorganisation of the NHS since it was established. While ministers are right to stress the need for service change if the NHS is to be ...

  • 'The world’s biggest quango' : the first five years of NHS England.

    Author:
    The King's Fund, Timmins, Nicholas, and Institute for Government
    Publication date:
    Abstract:
    This study commissioned jointly by the Institute for Government and The King’s Fund, explores the fate of one of the central provisions of the Health and Social Care Act, NHS England, established as a statutorily independent board with the aim of distancing politicians from the day-to-day running of the NHS. ...