Avoiding hospital admissions: Lessons from evidence and experience - Ham, Imison, Jennings - The King's Fund, October 2010

Improving NHS productivity: More with the same not more of the same July 2010 The King's Fund

Where next for the NHS reforms? The case for integrated care - Ham, Imison, Goodwin, Dixon, South - The King's Fund, May 2011

This paper sets out the challenges facing the English NHS now and in the future and identifies the reforms we believe are needed to meet these challenges. It has been written as a contribution to the listening exercise initiated by the coalition government following the announcement at the beginning of April of a pause in the parliamentary passage of the Health and Social Care Bill. It builds o...

Avoiding hospital admissions: What does the research evidence say? The King's Fund, December 2010

Despite considerable efforts to reduce emergency admissions, only a minority of primary care trusts (PCTs) succeeded in doing so between 2007/8 and 2008/9 (Gillam 2010). The average increase in admissions during this time was 5 per cent across all PCTs, ranging from a 12.7 per cent decrease to a 27.3 per cent increase. In order to successfully reduce avoidable emergency admissions, we need to f...

Improving NHS productivity More with the same not more of the same

referral management Lessons for success