The health management and policy alert is produced by the King's Fund Information and Knowledge Services. Its purpose is to alert users of content that has been published in a timely fashion. The King's Fund does not provide comment, opinion or analysis of any items included in the alert unless they are published by the King's Fund. Also, Inclusion of material in the alert does not imply endorsement of either the content or the publisher by the King's Fund unless it is a King's Fund publication.

 

 

Inclusion criteria

Included: Reports	Excluded: News articles, opinion pieces or blogs
National consultations	Local consultations or consultations for patients/users only
Dear Colleague letters	Pay circulars
Guidelines (if including clinical guidelines, these need to have an impact on the management or delivery of service)	Press releases (can be included as an accompanying link to a relevant publication which is eligible for inclusion)
Statistics relating to English health and social care (exceptions to this apply where very general statistics about Wales, Scotland and Ireland are released)	Statistics where there is not sufficient access to the source data (e.g. press releases, news stories)
Open-access journal articles (only where the study is relevant and widely reported)	Subscription journal articles or open-access journal articles which have been picked up on through sources other than mainstream press (e.g. journal scanning)
Response papers (for key policy documents or government White Papers only)	Research commissioning briefs or research protocols (e.g. from NHS National Institute of Health Research or Office of Health Economics)
Learning materials/toolkits/case studies	Written ministerial statements