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Government response to the Joint Committee on the draft Mental Health Bill
This report contains responses to each of the Joint Committee ’s recommendations for the draft Mental Health Bill to reform the Mental Health Act 1983 and deliver a modern mental health service.ReportDepartment of Health and Social Care - publications (Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection)
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - March 22, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Legislation and reform Mental health Source Type: news

Adverse weather and health plan equity review and impact assessment 2024
UK Health Security Agency -This review covers evidence on inequalities in risks to health from adverse weather events. It also describes how the Adverse Weather and Health Plan addresses these risks for different populations and makes recommendations for strengthening action to help reduce inequalities in risk across populations now and in future.Impact assessmentUK Health Security Agency - publications (Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection)
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - March 21, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Public health and health inequalities Source Type: news

Tobacco and Vapes Bill: impact assessment
Department of Health and Social Care - This document contains impact assessments relating to the Tobacco and Vapes Bill which was introduced in the House of Commons on 20 March 2024.Impact assessmentDepartment of Health and Social Care - publications  (Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection)
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - March 21, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Public health and health inequalities Source Type: news

Who cares wins: unfair to care 2024 - understanding the social care pay gap and how to close it
This report analyses the social care pay gap and its impact on people, communities, the care sector and the economy. It reveals an opportunity to end the workforce challenges in social care, with public and MP polling finding consensus that the social care pay gap must be addressed. Highlighting the importance of a 2.6m strong ‘social care vote’, it indicates that the challenges of social care may influence the course of the 2024 election.ReportCommunity Integrated Care - news (Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection)
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - March 20, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Social care Workforce and employment Source Type: news

The challenges and potential of intermediate care
The Health Foundation -Intermediate care is short-term care aimed at maximising people ’s independence. It can reduce pressure on acute services by providing a pathway to timely discharge from hospital or by preventing admission altogether. This briefing estimates that around 125,000 people enter intermediate care services each month. It outlines how expanding intermediate care serv ices could prevent hospital admissions and help people in hospital move into more appropriate settings.The Health Foundation - publications (Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection)
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - March 20, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS performance and productivity Patient involvement, experience and feedback Source Type: news

Reforming adult social care in England
This report looks at adult social care in England and finds understaffing, rising waiting lists and patchwork funding that places sustained financial pressure on local authorities. It calls for stronger leadership, long-term financial support, and a clear workforce strategy to address key shortfalls in the sector.ReportPublic Accounts Committee - news (Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection)
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - March 20, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Social care Workforce and employment Source Type: news

The 2024 local elections: pre-election period considerations for NHS trusts and foundation trusts
NHS Providers - This briefing sets out considerations for NHS foundation trusts and trusts in the period of time known as the pre-election period leading up to the local authority and Greater London Authority elections on 2 May. It highlights the practical implications around providers ’ activities, including in relation to integrated care systems (ICSs), and with regard to communication during the pre-election period. It also covers the requirements on central and local government, the civil service and arm’s length bodies during the pre-election period to maintain political impartiality in carrying out their pu...
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - March 19, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: news

International recruitment toolkit for adult social care providers: a guide to good practice
Department of Health and Social Care - Theinternational recruitment toolkit, hosted by Skills for Care, has been developed to help adult social care providers decide whether to recruit care workers and senior care workers from overseas, with guidance on how to do so in an ethical and responsible manner. This quick start guide provides a summary of key considerations and is intended to serve as an entry point to the guidance. It is not a substitute for it.GuideMore detail (Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection)
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - March 19, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: news

Proposed update to the statutory scheme to control the cost of branded health service medicines
Department of Health and Social Care - This consultation seeks views on proposals to update the statutory scheme to control the cost of branded health service medicines. The consultation proposes to introduce a differentiated approach to setting payment percentages for newer medicines and older medicines, and includes proposals on: defining older and newer medicines; setting the headline payment percentage for newer medicines; setting the basic payment percentage and top-up payment percentage for older medicines; and calculating the price decline of older medicines. The consultation also proposes increasing the thres...
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - March 19, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS finance Source Type: news

Adult critical care clinical network specification
NHS England - Clinical networks are clinically led groups of professionals, service users and organisations working together across professional, organisational and geographical boundaries. Clinical networks play a vital role in co-ordinating pathways of care, supporting equitable access to healthcare and assuring and improving quality. NHS England sets out the scope of work for specialised services clinical networks in the below network specifications.SpecificationMore detail (Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection)
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - March 19, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS performance and productivity Source Type: news

NHS Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES): 2023 data analysis report for NHS trusts
This report sets out 2023 data for all nine Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) indicators. The report enables organisations to compare their performance with others in their region and those providing similar services, with the aim of encouraging improvement by learning and sharing good practice, and provides a national picture of WRES in practice, to colleagues, organisations and the public on the developments in the workforce race equality agenda.ReportMore detail  (Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection)
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - March 19, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: news

A vision for the NHS ambulance sector in co-designing urgent and emergency care provision
This report, produced in collaboration with the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives and the NHS Confederation, highlights the pivotal role ambulance trusts play in delivering urgent and emergency care and sets out a long term vision for an enhanced role they could take in co-designing this care. It sets out the case for change and includes several case studies that demonstrate the benefits of ambulance services taking this broader approach.ReportMore detail  (Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection)
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - March 18, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS performance and productivity Source Type: news

GP practice productivity, efficiency, and continuity of care
This report explores the issue of GP practice productivity and efficiency — how it might be measured, how it has changed over time, the degree of geographic variation, and the relationship between productivity, efficiency, and continuity of care for patients.ReportMore detail  (Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection)
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - March 18, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Primary and community care Source Type: news

The gap between need & supply of GP practice consultations
Midlands Decision Support Network - This paper finds that the use of GP practice consultations increases with age and with levels of morbidity. Since 2008, the population has aged and age-specific morbidity levels have increased. This suggests that need for GP practice consultations has grown, whilst the average number of consultations per person has reduced. It is estimated that in 2019, a patient was 12.2% less likely to receive a consultation than a patient with similar needs in 2012. An additional 36.6 million consultations (+13.9%) would have been required to meet needs in 2019 as they were in 2012.PaperMore det...
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - March 18, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Primary and community care Source Type: news

Long-term trends in GP practice consultation rates
Midlands Decision Support Network - This paper explores the long-term trends in GP practice consultation rates. It uses two research databases, Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) Gold and Aurum, to estimate consultation rates between 1995 and 2022. The paper considers all interactions between a patient and a healthcare professional: face-to-face consultations in the GP practice, consultations conducted by telephone, or using digital technologies, and visits made to the patient. The results are set out alongside (1) estimates from other studies, (2) new data on GP appointment rates, (3) GP patient survey resul...
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - March 18, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Primary and community care Source Type: news