The Health and Care Act: six key questions - The King's Fund
WEBMay 16, 2022 · Short answer. The main purpose of the Health and Care Act is to establish a legislative framework that supports collaboration and partnership-working to integrate services for patients. Among a wide range of other measures, the Act also includes targeted changes to public health, social care and the oversight of quality and safety.
Integrated Care Systems Explained - The King's Fund
WEBIntegrated care systems (ICSs) are partnerships that bring together NHS organisations, local authorities and others to take collective responsibility for planning services, improving health and reducing inequalities across geographical areas. There are 42 ICSs across England, covering populations of around 500,000 to 3 million people.
NHS: Key Facts And Figures | The King's Fund
WEBJun 25, 2024 · The NHS is one of the world’s largest employers, with around 1.34 million full-time equivalent staff in England, as of February 2024. Consequently, the wage bill for the NHS makes up a substantial proportion of its budget. In 2022/23, the total cost of employing the staff in the NHS was £71.1 billion – 45.6% of the NHS budget.
The NHS Budget And How It Has Changed | The King's Fund
WEBJun 18, 2024 · Since 1955/56, spending on the NHS has increased by an average of 3.6% per year in real terms, but this masks substantial variation over time depending on the decisions made by the government of the day. Looking more recently, between 2015/16 and 2022/23 spending increased by 2.8% a year on average in real terms.
What is commissioning and how is it changing? - The King's Fund
WEBCommissioning comprises a range of activities, including: assessing needs. setting priorities. planning services. procuring services. monitoring quality. This ongoing process is often shown as a cycle 1: The concept of commissioning was introduced into the NHS in the early 1990s, when reforms separated the purchasing of services from their ...
What Is Compassionate Leadership? | The King's Fund
WEBFeb 15, 2022 · Compassionate leadership helps to create psychologically safe working environments by encouraging team members to share learning and improve the quality of their work through regular reviews (West 2021). Moreover, considerable research evidence shows that such teams are both more productive …
The NHS Long-term Plan Explained - The King's Fund
WEBJan 23, 2019 · In June 2018, the Prime Minister announced a new five-year funding settlement for the NHS: a 3.4 per cent average real-terms annual increase in NHS England’s budget between 2019/20 and 2023/24 (a £20.5 billion increase over the period). To unlock this funding, national NHS bodies were asked to …
The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan explained - The King's Fund
WEBPublished on 30 June 2023, the NHS long term workforce plan sets out the case for long-term change for the NHS workforce, and outlines plans to address an expected shortfall of between 260,000 and 360,000 staff by 2036/37. The actions set out by the plan build on existing ambitions to increase the NHS workforce – such as existing plans to ...
GP funding and contracts explained - The King's Fund
WEBJun 11, 2020 · There are three 1 different types of GP contract arrangements used by NHS commissioners in England – General Medical Services (GMS), Personal Medical Services (PMS) and Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS). The GMS contract is the national standard GP contract. In 2018/19, around 70 per cent of GP practices operated under it 2.
NHS Workforce Nutshell | The King's Fund
WEBMay 10, 2024 · Workforce by staff group. The NHS in England currently employs around 1.5 million people (on a headcount basis, counting each individual member of staff) and 1.3 million people on a full-time equivalent (FTE) basis. These figures include staff in ambulance, community, mental health and hospital services, as well as those in commissioning roles ...