September 12, 2008
Key Points Xtra 12 September 2008
*Heritage Open Days in Tyne & Wear this weekend
*Equality and Diversity in the North East - an exploration of the statistical profile - launch seminar
*Living Places – new website and resources
Further details in the Xtra bulletin
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July 21, 2008
King's Fund and Darzi
Making Darzi's vision a reality
Article by Niall Dickson
High Quality Care for All: briefing on NHS Next Stage Review final report
Download the briefing
The King's Fund response to Lord Darzi's NHS Next Stage Review
Read response
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July 20, 2008
King's fund conference: Delivering effective end-of-life care
Delivering effective end-of-life care: developing partnership working
Wednesday 15 October 2008, 10.00am–4.15pm
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, London
Recognition of the need for good-quality end-of-life care is at the heart of the government's new End of Life Care Strategy. Produced in partnership between The King's Fund, Marie Curie Cancer Care and the National Council for Palliative Care, this one-day conference will highlight the key challenges involved in implementing the strategy.
For further information, see the King's Fund website.
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July 13, 2008
King's Fund seminar: Improving patients' experiences
Improving patients' experiences: developing high quality care
Monday 27 October 2008, 10.00am–1.15pm
The King's Fund, 11–13 Cavendish Square, London W1G 0AN
This seminar will:
*develop understanding of patients' experience and how to involve patients in service design
*provide case studies from the acute sector including insight into methods for measuring patients' experience
*encourage discussion between commissioners, acute care providers and patients about methods for improving the quality of care.
For further information, see the King's Fund website.
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February 10, 2008
Conflicting views on an NHS constitution emerge at King's Fund event
From KING'S FUND:
We recently held an event, as part of our Darzi debate series, which explored the case for an NHS constitution and examined alternative approaches to ending ministerial interference and micromanagement by the Department of Health.
We recorded the following soundbites from three of the key speakers at the event, all of whom had different ideas on the viability of a constitution:
Andrew Lansley MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Health, tells us why he thinks the NHS needs a constitution and the Conservative Party's plans for an independent board:
Listen to Andrew Lansley (2 mins 41 secs)
Dr Richard Horton, Editor of The Lancet, tells us why he thinks the NHS doesn't need a constitution but would benefit from having what he describes as a 'technical advisory group':
Listen to Dr Richard Horton (1 min 6 secs)
Anna Dixon, Acting Director of Policy, King's Fund, tells us there needs to be more thought about what would go into an NHS constitution, but agrees that there needs to be a clearer framework for accountability:
Listen to Anna Dixon (2 mins 3 secs)
For more information on our Darzi debate series, and on our other work leading up to the publication of Lord Darzi's next stage review in the summer, please visit our website.
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February 6, 2008
King's Fund Briefings on Patient Choice and Operating Framework 2008/09
OPERATING FRAMEWORK 2008/9
In December 2007, the Department of Health issued its third 'operating framework', which provides a set of priorities and guidance for the NHS for the next financial year. This briefing summarises the main points from both the operating framework and supporting documents and offers some analysis of their content.
Read the briefing
PATIENT CHOICE
This briefing looks at the development and impact of reforms to give patients a choice of provider for their planned hospital care. It is this aspect of choice that has received the most attention so far and has been a key part of the government’s wider reform programme for improving quality and efficiency in the NHS in England.
Read the briefing
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January 25, 2008
New King's Fund paper - Governing the NHS
The King's Fund has launched a new paper called:
Governing the NHS: Alternatives to an independent board
An independent NHS board has been advocated by a number of commentators, who believe it will reduce both micromanagement and day-to-day political interference in the running of the health service. This paper argues that an independent board would be limited in its ability to achieve these aims and suggests a number of alternative options that build on the increasing operational independence the recent reforms have offered.
Visit the KF website to download the paper.
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October 2, 2007
King's Fund Annual Conference 2007
Joining up the clinical and business cases for NHS reform
Tuesday 27 November 2007, 9.00am–5.00pm (drinks reception until 7pm),
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
** Your chance to focus on clinician management, service transformation and integrated delivery**
More information at: http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/events/kings_fund.html
For other upcoming KF conferences, see:
http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/events/index.html
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August 16, 2007
NHS CFH Standard for elearning
From Health Informatics Community e-bulletin 101:
NHS Connecting for Health have published a best practice standard for the development and management of elearning. In response to feedback from stakeholders in the NHS, the document has been developed and launched as part of NHS CFH's suite of Education, Training and Development (ETD) standards.
More information and link at:
http://www.informatics.nhs.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=2442
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Management Briefing on Benefits Management
From Health Informatics Community e-bulletin 101:T
The next instalment of Faculty management briefings covers benefits management.
This is the difference between what people expect the benefits of a project or service to be compared to what the outcome is in reality. The briefing looks at ways to overcome the benefits realisation gap, and gives examples of good practice.
Further background information and briefing to download at:
http://www.informatics.nhs.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=2449
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July 30, 2007
Has Agenda for Change achieved its objectives? KF report
The King's Fund has just launched a new report:
Realising the benefits? Assessing the implementation of Agenda for Change.
Agenda for Change is the most ambitious pay reform introduced into the NHS. The report examines the progress in implementation based on interviews with key national informants and on case studies in 10 NHS trusts.
Visit the King's Fund website to read/download the report or to purchase a print copy.
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July 27, 2007
New PPI Specialist Library
The new Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Specialist Library - managed by the King's Fund for the National Library for Health was officially launched today.
The library aims to support the implementation of patient, user, carer and public involvement in health care by providing access, in one location, to the best information which is available on the Web. Go to the PPI home page
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June 26, 2007
NHS Choices
NHS Choices, the comprehensive health information website that provides easily accessible information about conditions, treatments and hospitals, was launched on 19 June 2007.
The website empowers the public to make informed choices about their own health, including when and where they receive treatment. Patients can also give immediate feedback on their hospital treatment and experience.
NHS Choices has also been designed as a resource for voluntary sector workers, patient advocates and carers to distribute information to patients who do not use the internet.
Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt said: "Health advice is the second most popular subject on the web. Consequently there is a bewildering array of information online often of varying quality that can be confusing or in the worst cases dangerous. With the launch of NHS Choices that will change - patients and providers will now have access to the best, most reliable information on health.
"NHS Choices puts patients in the driving seat - giving them access to information not previously available to them so they can make informed decisions from advice about healthy eating to identifying the right hospital for their treatment.
"The site will also enable health providers to form different partnerships with patients. Providers will be able to communicate directly with the public online and allowing patients to compare hospitals will encourage clinicians and managers to improve their performance.
"Over the next few months, we will continue to develop the site and provide the information that people want and need so that we have a truly patient-led NHS."
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June 21, 2007
Improved Elibrary for RCN members
"On 1 June the Library & Information Service at the RCN launched an improved Elibrary for RCN members on our website. In response to members' requests for access to more full text information, we have significantly increased the number of full text resources available remotely.
Members and staff now have access to more than 400 full text journals from Proquest and Ovid together with more than 200 e-books from Proquest and Netlibrary."
"As well as continuing to provide remote access to databases BNI, Ageinfo, Childdata and Maternity & Infant Care (MIDIRS) we have added access to the Proquest collection of over 400 nursing journals which includes core nursing titles together with wide ranging specialist titles.
Highlights in the improved e-library include over 100 UK published, peer reviewed/scholarly core nursing titles, access to the entire portfolio of RCN Publishing journals (coming soon) and access to Journal of Advanced Nursing back to 1976."
Login and find out more at:
http://www.rcn.org.uk/members/library/
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May 30, 2007
The merry month of May
Iam ver egelidos refert tepores,
Iam caeli furor aequinoctialis
Iucundis Zephyri silescit aureis.
Gaius Valerius Catullus, beginning of Carmen 46
Now spring brings back the warmer days,
now the rage of the equinoctial sky
falls silent in Zephyr's pleasant breezes.
Well, here's hoping ..................
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May 29, 2007
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