The Knowledge @lert Service

Urgent & emergency care: acting on patient and public perspectives – Eastern AHSN  This report set out to understand the problem of urgent and emergency care from the perspective of patients who had engaged with that care, including how they might be supported by digital solutions. The research focused on…

Overlooked, but not overcome: smaller hospitals and the staff response to the Covid-19 pandemic  – Nuffield Trust This briefing looks at the operational responses and management approaches taken by staff from ten smaller hospitals during the first and second waves of the pandemic. The briefing also makes a set of…

Experiences of being in hospital for people with a learning disability and autistic people – Care Quality Commission This report looks at what people with a learning disability  and people with autism experience when they need physical health care and treatment in hospital. Why have ambulance waiting times been getting worse? –…

Place-based partnerships explained – The Kings Fund Place-based partnerships are collaborative arrangements between organisations responsible for arranging and delivering health and care services and others with a role in improving health and wellbeing. They are a key building block of the integrated care systems (ICSs) recently established across England and play an…

New horizons: what can England learn from the professionalisation of care workers in other countries? – Nuffield Trust This report finds that perceptions of care work as low skilled continue to persist, despite the pandemic highlighting just how vital care workers are. In recent years there has been increased debate…

Public perceptions of health and social care: what the new government should know – The Health Foundation. This report highlights findings from a survey of 2,068 people aged 16 years and older in the UK. It finds that the public is pessimistic about the state of the NHS. The majority…

Building better health: what are the estate development and management opportunities presented by integrated care systems? Good Governance Institute In July 2022, Good Governance Institute and Primary Health Properties hosted a roundtable discussion to look at the opportunities for estates in integrated care to drive reform, inspire innovation and enable…

Realising the benefits of provider collaboratives – NHS Providers NHS trusts will play a critical role in delivering the key purposes of integrated care systems, often through partnership arrangements that will act as delivery vehicles within ICSs including provider collaboratives, place-based partnerships and neighbourhood multi-disciplinary teams. This briefing: provides a…

Payment reform, purchaser and provider decisions and the performance of emergency healthcare systems: the case of blended payment in the English NHS  – Centre for Health Economics  This paper constitutes the first and foundational output of the ESHCRU2 project 3 – Analysis of purcher-provider contracts: modelling risk sharing and incentive implications. This…

Patient-initiated follow-up: will it free up capacity in outpatient care? – Nuffield Trust With the number of outpatient hospital appointments in England recently as high as 125 million per year and a huge elective care backlog following the Covid-19 pandemic, patient-initiated follow-up (PIFU) on NHS outpatient appointments has been touted…