Reimagining community services The King’s Fund has published Reimagining community services: making the most of our assets.  This report looks at the current state of community services and explores how the health and care system needs to change to enable these services to meet the needs of the population…

  Sustainability and transformation in the NHS The National Audit Office has published Sustainability and transformation in the NHS.  This report examines the progress the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England and NHS Improvement have made towards achieving financial balance.  It provides a summary of the financial position…

  High impact change model examples of emerging and developing practice – LGA The high impact change model for managing transfers of care identifies eight system changes that will have the greatest impact on reducing delayed discharge. This report references a range of initiatives where there is already evidence of impact,…

  NHS Standard Contract   NHS England has updated the 2017-19 NHS Standard Contract for use by commissioners for all contracts for healthcare services other than primary care.  Where commissioners are placing new contracts with providers, they must now use these updated versions of the relevant contract with immediate effect. …

Admissions of inequality: emergency hospital use for children and young people – Nuffield Trust This briefing looks at the relationship between deprivation and the use of emergency hospital care by children and young people in England. It aims to describe and highlight areas of inequality and to explore how they have changed…