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Contested Decisions
Based on original research, this study of five contested treatment decisions forms a sequel to the King's Fund publication Tragic Choices in Health Care: the Case of Child B.
Improving NHS care by engaging staff and devolving decision-making
This report details the conclusions of the Review of Staff Engagement and Empowerment in the NHS, commissioned by the Minister for Care and Support, Norman Lamb MP, in November 2013. The review was chaired by Chris Ham, Chief Executive of The King's Fund, and supported by a panel of 17 experts. The review found compelling evidence that NHS organisations with high levels of staff engagement - where staff are strongly committed to their work and involved in decision-making - deliver better quality care. These organisations report: - lower mortality rates - better patient experience - lower rates of sickness absence and staff turnover. Organisations with low levels of staff engagement are more likely to provide poor-quality care - the failures in care at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust are a high-profile example of this. While staff engagement levels have increased across the NHS in recent years, the review found significant variations between organisations. It ca ...
Health Policy in Britain
'Christopher Ham's book provides an historical and theoretical introduction to the making, implementation and evaluation of health policy in Britain. It has been completely revised throughout for this third edition with new chapters added on the current health service reforms and key issues for the future of health policy setting the British situation in an international context. 'It is hard to find a better basic textbook about health policy in Britain for students with little existing knowledge. However, it can also be highly recommended for readers who work in the NHS, but want to make more sense of the often confusing web of policies and imperatives. This book manages to synthesise a mass of material in a readable form, and enlightens as well as informs.' Public Health.
EBOOK: Reasonable Rationing
"Reasonable Rationing is must reading for those interested in how to connect theory about fair rationing processes to country-level practices. The five case studies reveal a deep tension between political pressures to accomodate interest group demands and ethically motivated efforts to improve both information and institutional procedures for setting fair limits to care. The authors frame the issues insightfully." - Professor Norman Daniels, Harvard School of Public Health . How are different countries setting priorities for health care? . What role does information and evidence on cost and effectiveness play? . How are institutions contributing to priority setting? . What are the lessons fo...
Health Care Reform
This book provides an up-to-date review and analysis of health care reform in five countries: Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States. It reviews the experience of introducing competition into the health service as well as policies to strengthen management and change methods of paying hospitals and doctors. The experience of each country is described by experts from the countries concerned. In this lucid introduction, Chris Ham sets out the context of reform, and in the conclusion identifies the emerging lessons. The book provides an authoritative introduction to health care reform in Europe and North America at a time of increasing political and public interest in this field. It has been designed for students of social policy and the full range of health service practitioners on courses of professional training.
Priority Setting Processes for Healthcare
In the face of the relentless rise in health costs, many countries have had to set priorities so that maximum benefit can be made of unlimited funds. This book shares the experience of those which have taken a lead in this field, and draws on models being developed in Oregon, New Zealand, The Netherlands and Sweden as well as the UK. It discusses the strengths and weaknesses of each system from which healthcare planners and managers can draw their own conclusions and apply to the situation for which they are responsible.
Management and Competition in the New NHS.
This annotated indexed anthology deals with doctor-patient interactions as portrayed in novels short stories and plays especially where these are unsatisfactory. This book is unique among medical anthologies in that readers can look up medical topics as they appear in fiction. It analyses sources of conflict such as the fee the doctor's perceived l
Policy changes to implement the NHS five year forward view
Two years on from the publication of the NHS five year forward view, Chris Ham from the Kings Fund assesses how much progress has been made and what still needs to be done to align policies with the plan.
Management and Competition in the NHS
This second edition reviews recent reforms and the likely impact of future developments in management and competition in the NHS. In particular, it reflects the growing importance of primary care and the continuing debates about health care rationing. It concentrates on the realities and how they can be interpreted to help strategists, managers, clinicians, students and those supplying the NHS understand the mechanism of efficient health care delivery.
