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  • Social care funding and the NHS : an impending crisis?

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    The King's Fund and Humphries, Richard
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    The impact of funding cuts to the NHS has been widely reported and discussed, but less attention has been given to social care – and, most importantly, to the inter-relationships of health and social care. Social care funding has increased in real terms for the past decade, but there has ...

  • Routes for social and health care : a simulation exercise.

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    The King's Fund, Humphries, Richard, McMahon, Laurie, and Harvey, Sarah
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    The Routes project was commissioned by The King’s Fund in partnership with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the Social Care Institute for Excellence, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services and the Local Government Association. and The health and social care system is currently tackling three inter-related challenges: coping with rising demand and reduced funding; handling NHS restructuring; and transforming social care. How can these challenges be seen as an opportunity to achieve fundamental change to the system? The Routes project, a simulation exercise created by ...

  • Integrating health and social care : where next?

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    The King's Fund, Curry, Natasha, and Humphries, Richard
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    The coalition government has made clear its commitment to the integration of health and social care in its proposals for reform. In the context of the intense financial and demographic challenges facing both health and social care, this paper offers a fresh assessment of the prospects for integrating health and ...

  • Integrating health and social care in Torbay : improving care for Mrs Smith.

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    Thistlethwaite, Peter and The King's Fund
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    Integration of health and social care is a core policy aim of the new coalition government in England. It has several benefits for patients, particularly older people and those with long-term conditions. But how does integration work in practice? This paper sets out how one particular area – Torbay – ...

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

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    The King's Fund
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    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.

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    The King's Fund
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    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.

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    The King's Fund
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    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 ...

  • Health and Social Care Bill briefing

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    The King's Fund
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    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 ...