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How to improve cancer survival : explaining England's relatively poor rates.

Author:

The King's Fund, Foot, Catherine, and Harrison, Tony

Publication date:

2011

Abstract:

Cancer survival rates in England are improving, but they still lag behind those in the best-performing countries in the world. The current government has identified cancer survival rates as an area for improvement and the cancer strategy commits to saving an additional 5,000 lives by 2015, but how can these ...
How is the NHS performing? : quarterly monitoring report April 2011.

Author:

Poteliakhoff, Emmi, The King's Fund, and Appleby, John

Publication date:

2011

Abstract:

Over the next few years the NHS faces two unprecedented challenges: coping with the tightest funding settlement for decades and implementing top-to-bottom reforms of the system. The broad goal of both the productivity and reform challenges is to improve NHS performance and hence the quality of patient care. But both ...
How is the health and social care system performing? : quarterly monitoring report June 2013.

Author:

Galea, Amy, The King's Fund, Mundle, Claire, Humphries, Richard, Thompson, James, and Appleby, John

Publication date:

2013

Abstract:

This new analysis of data for the final quarter of 2012/13 shows that nearly six per cent of patients waited four hours or longer in A&E departments, the highest level since 2004. It shows that 313,000 patients (5.9 per cent) spent four hours or more in A&E in the period ...
A high-performing NHS? : a review of progress 1997-2010.

Author:

The King's Fund, Maybin, Jo, and Thorlby, Ruth

Publication date:

2010

Abstract:

This review assesses how far the investment and accompanying reforms since 1997 have transformed the NHS in England into a high-performing health system. The review focuses on England because health policy has now diverged from that in the devolved administrations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It has drawn on ...