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The King's Fund is an independent charity working to improve health and health care in England. We help to shape policy and practice through research and analysis; develop individuals, teams and organisations; promote understanding of the health and social care system; and bring people together to learn, share knowledge and debate. Our vision is that the best possible care is available to all.
This is an audio recording of the summary from our report, Clicks and mortar: Technology and the NHS estate, read by Harry Evans.
Financial pressures and growing demand mean that health and social care services will need to work differently. Our report reviews how technology in the NHS estate is currently being used, and imagines how the 'estate of the future' might look.
Read the report: https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/publications/technology-NHS-estate
Speaking at our breakfast event on integrated care on 21 March 2018, Dr Claire Fuller, Senior Responsible Officer at Surrey Heartland, presents Surrey's version of integration in health care.
Speaking at our breakfast event on integrated care on 21 March 2018, Paul Maubach, Chief Executive, Dudley Clinical Commissioning Group, explains why his organisation intends to use the controversial Accountable Care Organisation contract.
Speaking at our breakfast event on integrated care on 21 March 2018, Dr Graham Winyard, former Deputy Chief Medical Officer and Medical Director, NHS England and one of the people challenging the ACO contract in court explains why he thinks this new approach is a bad idea.
Speaking at The King's Fund event Partnership Models in the NHS, Andrew Forrest, Dr Dominic King, Luke Gompels and Ashley Sumner speak of the collaboration between Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust and DeepMind.
At the launch of The King's Fund report Reimagining Community Services on 23 January 2018, Dr Sir Sam Everington, chair of NHS Tower Hamlets Clinical Commissioning Group, draws on his experience in Tower Hamlets/Bromley-By-Bow to reflect on what it really means to bring together resources in the community.
At the launch of The King's Fund report Reimagining Community Services on 23 January 2018, Matthew Winn responds to the messages in the report from the perspective of a chief executive of an NHS community trust.
At the launch of The King's Fund report Reimagining Community Services on 23 January 2018, Debs Taylor draws on her experience as a service user and from her work at Creative Minds to reflect on what it would mean for service users if community services were more joined up and better coordinated.
Speaking at The King's Fund on 05 December 2017 Jim Mackey, Chief Executive, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and outgoing Chief Executive, NHS Improvement, discusses the implications of the Autumn Budget 2017.
Speaking at The King's Fund on 05 December 2017, Dr Claire Fuller, Senior Responsible Officer, Surrey Heartlands Devolved Care System, discusses the implications of the Autumn Budget 2017.
Speaking at a breakfast event at The King's Fund on 19 October 2017, Jill Rutter, Programme Director, Institute for Government, gives her perspective on what a minority government means for health and social care policy.
Speaking at a breakfast event at The King's Fund on 19 October 2017, Dr Sarah Wollaston MP, Chair, Health Select Committee, gives her perspective on what the minority government means for the NHS and social care.
Speaking at a breakfast event at The King's Fund on 19 October 2017, Steve Richards, political commentator, discusses the consequences of the 2017 election for the NHS and social care, and what prospects the upcoming Budget offers.
Speaking at a breakfast event at The King's Fund on 12 September 2017, Dr Tom Coffey, Mayoral Health Adviser, Mayor of London, responds to The King's Fund's report on sustainability and transformation plans in London.
Speaking at a breakfast event at The King's Fund on 12 September 2017, Vin Diwakar, London Regional Medical Director, NHS England, responds to The King's Fund's report on sustainability and transformation plans in London.
Michael Wise, patient, author and former specialist in oral surgery and restorative dentistry, gives his perspective as a patient on our report, Organising care at the NHS front line.
Professor Jane Dacre, President of the Royal College of Physicians, responds to our report, Organising care at the NHS front line and discusses the role of clinicians in addressing some of the issues it raises.
Winnie Sseruma, London HIV Prevention Program Evaluation Advisory Committee, UK-CAB, discusses the importance of involving and empowering people living with HIV, and promoting good quality of life as well as good clinical outcomes.
Deborah Gold, Chief Executive of the National AIDS Trust, discusses progress made by HIV services and how to ensure this progress continues by building partnerships between services.
Speaking at The King's Fund on 25 April 2017, The Rt Hon the Lord Fowler, Lord Speaker, House of Lords, discusses how the United Kingdom has achieved its successes in HIV policy, and sets out priorities for future policy.
Caz Sayer discusses the difficult decisions commissioners are currently facing as a result of financial pressures and how these are affecting patients.
David Pearson, STP lead for Nottinghamshire and Deputy Chief Executive of Nottinghamshire County Council, gives his response to The King's Fund's report, 'Delivering sustainability and transformation plans' , and discusses STPs from a local government perspective.
Jane Milligan, STP lead for North East London and Chief Officer of Tower Hamlets CCG, responds to The King's Fund's report 'Delivering sustainability and transformation plans'.
Paul Johnson, Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, responds to The King's Fund's 21st quarterly monitoring report, and discusses the outlook for health and social care funding ahead of the Autumn Statement.
Caroline Clarke, Chief Finance Officer and Deputy Chief Executive of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, gives her response to the findings of The King's Fund's 21st quarterly monitoring report.
Sir Sam Everington, Chair Tower Hamlets Clinical Commissioning Group, GP, Bromley by Bow Health Partnership shares lessons from the internationally renowned Bromley by Bow Centre on how to develop a holistic approach to creating healthy communities.
Speaking at our breakfast event on 15 September 2016, Tom Wright outlines the findings from the Richmond Group of Charities' report, Real Lives.
Speaking at our breakfast event on 15 September 2016, Sarah Pickup, Deputy Chief Executive, Local Government Association, responds to the findings of our report on social care for older people.
Rob Webster, Chief Executive of South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, discusses the impact of the pressures in social care on the NHS.
Speaking at our press breakfast event on 11 May 2016, Marcus Powell discusses the state of leadership in the NHS and offers his views on what needs to change.
Speaking at our press breakfast event on 11 May 2016, Angela Pedder, Chief Executive of Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, gives her views on the perceived 'crisis of leadership' in the NHS and the challenges facing NHS leaders.
Speaking at our press breakfast event on 11 May 2016, Nick Timmins introduces The King's Fund's report, The chief executive's tale, and discusses common themes and challenges raised by the twelve departing NHS leaders who were interviewed for the report.
Speaking at our press breakfast event on 22 March 2016, David Sloman, Chief Executive, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, considers the challenges and opportunities for providers which have arisen from the NHS shared planning guidance.
Speaking at our breakfast event on 22 March 2016, Anne Rainsberry, Regional Director for London, NHS England, considers the opportunities and challenges for commissioners in light of the NHS shared planning guidance.
Speaking at our breakfast event on 22 March 2016, Bob Alexander, Executive Director of Resources/Deputy CEO NHS Improvement, discusses how NHS Improvement will support providers to meet the challenges set out in the NHS shared planning guidance.
Speaking at our breakfast event on 23 February 2016, Ed Smith, Chair of NHS Improvement, gives his response to The King's Fund's report, 'Improving quality in the NHS' and discusses how quality improvement should be taken forward.
Speaking at our breakfast event on 23 February 2016, Maxine Power, Director of Innovation and Improvement Science at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, discusses how we can best support NHS leaders to bring about quality improvement.
Suzanne Rastrick, Chief Allied Health Professions Officer, NHS England talks about the ways in which Allied Health Professionals can become leaders in the delivery of individual and population-based care.
Sarah Pickup, Deputy Chief Executive, Local Government Association, discusses the state of adult social care funding in response to the 2015 Spending Review.
Lord Kerslake, Chair of King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, gives his perspective on the outcomes of the 2015 Spending Review.
Jim Mackey's first speaking appointment as Chief Executive of NHS Improvement was at The King's Fund annual conference. He spoke about NHS deficits and how the newly formed NHS Improvement will approach its role.
Lord Peter Smith, Leader of Wigan Council and Chairman of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, gives an update on the devolution of health and social care in Manchester.
Sir Hugh Taylor, Chairman, Guy’s and St Thomas’ and former Permanent Secretary at the Department of Health, assesses the opportunities and risks of devolution for the NHS and social care.
Dame Ruth Carnall talking about system leadership at the first of our 2015 series of leadership lectures.
Sir Robert Naylor, Chief Executive, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, shares his perspective on the financial pressures facing the NHS.
This was the first in a series of breakfast events focusing on the first 100 days of the new government and the prospects for health and social care. Saffron Cordery, Dr Sarah Wollaston MP and Nick Timmins discussed what the election result means for health and social care.
This was the first in a series of breakfast events focusing on the first 100 days of the new government and the prospects for health and social care. Saffron Cordery, Dr Sarah Wollaston MP and Nick Timmins discussed what the election result means for health and social care.
This was the first in a series of breakfast events focusing on the first 100 days of the new government and the prospects for health and social care. Saffron Cordery, Dr Sarah Wollaston MP and Nick Timmins discussed what the election result means for health and social care.
Roger Kline, Research Fellow, Middlesex University Business School, explains why the absence of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) staff from the leadership of the NHS is serious, systemic and has shown no real sign of improving in recent years. He emphasises that diversity in health care leadership makes a decisive difference to patient care and to the wellbeing of health care staff.
David Branford and Maureen Baker announce a new joint initiative between the Royal College of General Practitioners and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, under which pharmacists will work in GP surgeries to ease pressures on general practice and improve patient care.
At this event Sam Everington, Chris Hopson and Ceinwen Giles discussed the priorities for the first 100 days after the election from a commissioner, provider and patient perspective.
At this event Sam Everington, Chris Hopson and Ceinwen Giles discussed the priorities for the first 100 days after the election from a commissioner, provider and patient perspective.
At this event Sam Everington, Chris Hopson and Ceinwen Giles discussed the priorities for the first 100 days after the election from a commissioner, provider and patient perspective.
Graham Browne, Living with Dementia Ambassador at the Alzheimer's Society, speaks at our conference on leading change in dementia diagnosis and support. Graham shares his story of living with dementia, explaining what he thinks needs to change. He criticises the price of nursing homes and a lack of information given to people living with dementia about the services available to them. However, Graham believes the fact that people are now more scared of getting dementia than they are of cancer is an encouraging sign which could help drive change.
Frank Arrojo tells his powerful and touching story of the time he spent caring for his late mother who lived with dementia. Frank details some of the challenges he faced and the impact this had on both himself and his mother. He stresses that his story is by no means unique.
Simon Stevens, Chief Executive of NHS England, discusses the role the NHS five year forward view will play in setting the agenda for the next parliament, and at the next steps of its implementation.
Chris Ham, Chief Executive of The King's Fund, talks through the key findings of our report, Implementing the NHS five year forward view,
Sir John Oldham, Chairman of the Independent Commission on Whole Person Care, speaking at The King's Fund on 4 February 2015.
Lord Layard, Professor Emeritus at London School of Economics and Founder of Action for Happiness, speaks at our event on taking the conversation on mental health from rhetoric to reality. The event was part of our breakfast series on the big election questions.
Paul Farmer, Chief Executive of Mind, speaks at our event on taking the conversation around mental health from rhetoric to reality, part of our breakfast series on the big election questions.
Claire Murdoch, Chief Executive of Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, speaks at our event on taking the conversation on mental health from rhetoric to reality, part of our breakfast series on the big election questions.
Catherine Foot presents our new report People in control of their own health and care, published in partnership with National Voices. Catherine explains in detail the eight key priorities to transform individual involvement in health and care. She goes on to discuss the report's key recommendations, including the need for a fundamental national conversation about a new relationship between citizens and services.
Catherine Foot talks through the eight key steps towards putting patients in control of their own health and care, as detailed in our report People in control of their own health and care.
Drawing on the findings of our latest quarterly monitoring report, Richard Murray, Director of Policy at The King's Fund, looks at the consequences of not providing additional funding for health and social care. He also makes the case for a transformation fund to give the NHS and social care the headroom to change services.
Mary Riddell, Columnist at the Daily Telegraph, looks at how issues around health and social care funding could play out in the run-up to the next general election, and at the main parties' thinking on public spending and taxation.
Paul Johnson, Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, discusses what’s happening with government spending across public services at the moment and the implications this has for health and social care. He says that protecting health, schools and pensions means an overall cut of 35 per cent in other areas of government spending.
Professor Lewis Wolpert, biologist and broadcaster, shares a personal and humorous journey of growing old - from a brief history of attitudes to ageing, biological systems and genetic research into 'ageing-prevention' to the challenges faced as we live longer.
Sir David Dalton shares his journey as Chief Executive of Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust – a case study from which forms part of our Reforming the NHS from within report – and explains how the trust have developed an organisational culture focused on delivering safe care.
The RT Hon Stephen Dorrell MP talks about the challenges of NHS reform - which he defines as not about changing structures but about ensuring the service delivered reflects the needs of patients and service users. He describes how access to health care is intrinsically political, with the role of politicians to be accountable for commissioning.
Professor The Lord Darzi, Professor of Surgery, Imperial College London, looks back at previous NHS reform efforts and explains that, while they were not necessarily unsuccessful, we now face a new set of challenges and need a different approach to tackle them. He says that system reform is not the same as service reform – the focus needs to be on the latter – and describes how, for innovation to happen, we need to harness the efforts of patients as co-producers of care and free up time for people to be creative.
Resonating with our call, Sir Merrick Cockell, Chairman of the Local Government Association (LGA), called for a new transformation fund to support the Better Care Fund to stop the NHS approaching a major financial crisis.
In his vision for local government going forward he saw a lead role for health and wellbeing boards in commissioning local services and for councils to work together to co-design services. Sir Merrick discussed the next steps for the LGA, which include working alongside their social care partners to lobby for fully and fairly-funded reforms.
Sandie Keene, Director of Adult Social Care at Leeds City Council, shared some of the successes that adult social care services in Leeds are currently seeing and talked about how best to tackle the challenges ahead in order to achieve more integrated care.
She joined with The King's Fund in calling for a Transformation Fund as an 'invest to save' model to improve the delivery of adult social care services, but also highlighted the need to combine this with system redesign and collaboration.
Chris Hopson, Chief Executive, Foundation Trust Network, shared his optimism for closer integrated health and social care spending, but highlighted trust-wide concerns about the impact that funding cuts are having alongside extra demand on other social services and third sector organisations that provide crucial support – and the knock on effect this is having on the NHS.
In order to ensure investment in a whole series of enablers, he suggested there should be further evaluation of the Better Care Fund with a clearer focus on risk management.
Angela Camber, patient representative, British Heart Foundation Council, gives a personal account of her experiences of care and makes a plea for systems to be joined-up to empower patients and put them right at the centre.
Dr Caz Sayer, Chair of Camden Clinical Commissioning Group, spoke at our NHS financial pressures press breakfast event. Caz discussed The King's Fund's new NHS productivity report from a clinician's point of view, stressing that the financial challenges being faced by the system are intrinsically linked to the quality of care and patient safety.
Harry Cayton OBE, Chief Executive of the Professional Standards Authority, gives the keynote address at our event, one year on from the Francis Inquiry report. Harry gives his assessment on what he describes as the 'patchy' progress being made on what he thinks were the four key elements of the Francis Inquiry report: transparency, accountability, patient-centredness and culture change. Harry also discusses what helps create a culture of good quality and how this evidence can be used in the NHS.
Brandon Lewis MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, explains how the Better Care Fund will support health and social care services to work more closely together in local areas.
To make real and meaningful progress towards integrated care in 2014, Brandon highlights local leadership as absolutely critical, with health and wellbeing boards playing a vital role in how policy is shaped.
At our Better Care Fund learning event, Norman Lamb MP, Minister for Care Services, shared his vision for integrated care. He highlighted the shifts that need to happen to achieve better care: including moving from a fragmented paternalistic system to one which is joined-up and shaped around the needs of the patient, and having richer collaboration between health and care services and the wider community.
Norman stressed that the changes needed to achieve joined-up cannot be dictated from Whitehall - they need to be led by people who understand services and the needs of patients – and explained how the Better Care Fund would help local leaders to achieve this.
Matthew Kershaw, former Trust Special Administrator, South London Healthcare NHS Trust, shared his experience of how the challenge of making £350 million of savings was tackled in South London at our recent press breakfast event.
He said that to create a clinically and financially sustainable solution in South London, the trust needed to engage with all organisations, commissioners and providers across the local health authority. Matthew also stressed the importance of bringing together the financial and clinical case to achieve change.
David Flory CBE, Chief Executive, NHS Trust Development Authority, spoke about financial pressures at our recent press breakfast event. He said it is important not to lose sight of the core purpose that needs to be delivered, namely to provide high-quality, safe services in a very efficient way.
Necessary to do this, he says, is a strong relationship with all partners in the system, in particular the commissioning bodies who are contracted for the care provided.
Candace Imison, Acting Director of Policy at The King's Fund, talks about the financial challenges facing NHS trusts. Candace looks at what drives failure as too often, she says, solutions are leapt to without consideration of why failure occurred in the first place.
She also discusses the options for addressing failure, including past remedies which have not worked and the NHS failure regime.
Dominic Harrison, Director of Public Health for Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council, looks at the different roles that local authorities, individuals and other health services play in improving health. Dominic says that health services only play a small part in the health of the population and shares how an initiative underway in Blackburn with Darwen - which offers free leisure services to people - has had a positive impact.
Dean Royles, Chief Executive of NHS Employers, highlights the importance of changing the current NHS culture which has a predominance of men in leadership roles and a gender imbalance at board level that will take 70 years to redress if current trends prevail.
Hiro Tanaka, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Aneurin Bevan Local Health Board, shares three personal stories which illustrate the important ingredients needed to transform patient care and experience.
Harry Cayton, Chief Executive of the Professional Standards Authority, spoke at our conference, Patient voice and power in the new NHS.
Harry introduced seven different types of leader and stressed the importance of patient leaders finding these characteristics in themselves to drive change in the NHS.
David Gilbert, Co-director of the Centre for Patient Leadership, spoke at our conference, Patient voice and power in the new NHS.
David explains why he feels we must move towards a model of patient-influenced change and away from the current model of 'them and us' that exists between professionals and patients.
Dr Marc Bush, Director of Policy and Intelligence at Healthwatch England, spoke at The King's Fund conference, Patient voice and power in the new NHS.
Exploring the role of Healthwatch England, Marc explained the importance of involving patients in their own care and the design of services in their own areas. He highlighted how statistics and people's anecdotal evidence don't always tally up, and called for 'soft' evidence - patient's experiences - to be given as much importance as the 'hard' evidence of stats and data.
Dominic Makuvachuma Walker, a patient interested in improving mental health care, spoke at our conference, Patient voice and power in the new NHS.
Dominic gave an empassioned speech to encourage the audience to involve patients in the delivery and strategy of mental health care, explaining that the emotional support he received from his peers had a huge effect on his own recovery in the 1990s.
Jeremy Hughes, Chief Executive at the Alzheimer's Society, gives six reasons for why engaging with the third sector is vital in delivering co-ordinated care.
Mike Bewick gives his response to The King's Fund's review of the Canterbury health care system in New Zealand. The review looks at how the Canterbury District Health Board has successfully implemented an integrated care system over the past few years.
Catherine Davies, Executive Director of Co-operation and Competition at Monitor, spoke at our event on whether competition will be a help or a hindrance. She explained the role that Monitor will play in service reconfiguration and economic and quality regulation.
Chris Hopson, Chief Executive of the Foundation Trust Network, spoke at our event on whether competition will be a help or a hindrance. Giving his view from the front line, he argued for the separation of choice and competition, and suggested that competition was a block to innovation in health care.
Michael Dixon, Chair of the NHS Alliance, talks about the value of volunteering and it's importance for the sustainability of the NHS.
Chris Naylor, Fellow in Health Policy at The King's Fund, discusses the scale, scope and value of volunteering in the health service. He also considers what the future holds for volunteering in the context of recent changes in the health system.
Alyson McGregor, Director of Altogether Better, explains the concept of community health champions.
Professor Marcus Longley, Director of the Welsh Institute for Health and Social Care at the University of South Wales, provides the context for integration in Wales. The country has only recently moved to an integrated system, and early challenges include funding, accountability, building trust and breaking down barriers, leadership and dealing with different stakeholder’s expectations.
Dr David Steel OBE, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen, gives the background to integrated care in Scotland - which has had an integrated health and social care system since 2003. His three key lessons for England are to develop a coherent policy landscape, have organisational stability and consistent leadership, and make a commitment to collaboration.
Professor Deirdre Heenan, Pro Vice Chancellor (Communication) and Provost (Colraine and Magee) at the University of Ulster, explains how Northern Ireland’s integrated health and social care system works - what structural integration means, what the benefits are and how the current system can be improved.
Chris Ham, Chief Executive of The King's Fund, introduces the key findings of our report on health care leadership in London. He explains why health services in the capital are in urgent need of change and suggests what the alternatives to further structural reconfiguration might be.
Dr Anne Rainsberry shares her experience of leading service change at NHS North West London, and reflects on her new role as NHS England’s Regional Director (London).
David Fish, Managing Director at UCL Partners, explains how academic health science partnerships use research and innovation to improve patient and population health. He looks at examples of cancer and cardiac service reconfiguration to explore how services can be changed and improved.
Clayton Christensen, Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, explains how we can use disruptive innovation to make health care more affordable and accessible. Key to this is bringing technology to clinics, doctor's offices and patient's homes, then driving the technology to become more sophisticated.
Dr Richard Barker OBE, Director of CASMI, shares his thoughts on the barriers and solutions to achieving greater innovation in the NHS. He emphasis that, as economic pressures build, innovation must be seen as the source of solutions, but financial short-sightedness, vested interests and cultural resistance are enormous barriers to this.
Kate Barker explains more about the Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England, including her role as Chair, the questions the Commission is seeking to answer and why now is the time to reconsider the boundaries of health and social care.
Catherine Foot speaks to Nick Timmins about his new paper on the four UK health systems. Nick discusses the similarities and differences between the health systems in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, and the difficulties in comparing and contrasting the impacts of each system.
Dr Havi Carel, Patient and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of the West of England, and author of the book "Illness", discusses how patients can help support quality improvement in the health and care system.
Norman Lamb MP, Minister for Care Services, spoke at The King's Fund Integrated care summit in May 2013. He spoke of his desire to see a fully integrated system of health and social care in England, which would help us to deal with the growing demand on care from older people. He suggested that the old health and social care systems could no longer withstand the challenges of today, and that an integrated system could provide the quality and efficiency sabings that are needed.
Nigel Edwards, Senior Fellow at The King’s Fund, discusses the issues around redesigning services and looks at whether this reconfiguration leads to a more convenient and cost-effective services for patients.
What is the future of the district general hospital? Dr Mark Newbold draws on his experience as Chief Executive of Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust to discuss.
James Reilly, Chief Executive of Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust, looks at how primary and community services need to change to deliver care closer to home.
Janet Atherton, President, Association of Directors of Public Health, shares how the Metropolitan Borough of Merseyside has narrowed the gap in life expectancies by targeting the areas that are most at risk of multiple unhealthy behaviours.
Catherine Swann, Associate Director at the Centre of Public Health Excellence, NICE, discusses NICE's forthcoming public health guidance and the key challenges in tackling complex and multiple behaviours in the population.
Mark Britnell, Chairman of KPMG's Global Health Practice, draws on examples of health care spending in other countries, including the Netherlands, Canada, Singapore and Japan, to look at how we can pay for the next 50 years of care.
Don Redding, Director of Policy, National Voices, introduces the work the charity is doing on integrated care and the role of the narrative. Commissioned by the NHS Commissioning Board, National Voices will be representing the perspective of patients, carers and other service users.
Elizabeth Fradd, explores the importance of language and communication in delivering high-quality, patient-centred health care. She focuses on her experience as a health care professional, investigator and an observer, giving a personal account of her mother's treatment.
Heather Rabbatts CBE, Independent Non-Executive Director at The FA, and former Deputy Chair at Millwall Football Club, draws on her past experiences to look at the role of the non-executive director.
Leslee Thompson and Anndale McTavish share how the team at Kingston General Hospital have worked in partnership with patients and families to achieve massive organisational change.
While public health measurements, including rates of alcohol consumption, smoking and obesity, are improving, David Buck explains that the health inequalities between population groups are widening. The reduction of these inequalities should be a priority for health and social care in the future. www.kingsfund.org.uk/think
In his first speech as Minister for Care Services, Norman Lamb MP discusses the importance of building an integrated system of care and how health and wellbeing boards can help to achieve this.
Jeremy Taylor, Chief Executive, National Voices, responds to The King's Fund new report, Transforming the delivery of health and social care: the case for fundamental change.
Ruth Poole, Group Clinical Director, Healthcare at Home Ltd, responds to The King's Fund new report, Transforming the delivery of health and social care: the case for fundamental change.
David Dalton responds to The King's Fund new report, Transforming the delivery of health and social care: the case for fundamental change.
Elisabeth Buggins, Chair of Birmingham Women's NHS Foundation Trust, discusses the role of the board with regards to quality and regulation, and looks at the lessons we could learn from the financial services sector.
Cynthia Bower draws on her experience as former Chief Executive of the Care Quality Commission to discuss what the quality drivers are in different parts of the system and whether we are expecting too much from the regulator.
With the Francis Inquiry report due in the autumn, Dr Anna Dixon, Director of Policy at The King's Fund, discusses the role of the regulator and looks at how care quality for patients can be improved.
Chris Ham asks what is the productivity gap, how the NHS can deliver the savings needed, and what are the risks.
Rt Hon Stephen Dorrell MP, Chair of the House of Commons Health Select Committee, discusses what successful commissioning looks like and whether the new system will deliver the changes necessary to meet the Nicholson challenge.
Andrea Young, Regional Director Designate (South) at the NHS Commissioning Board Authority, looks at how the new commissioning system should work and the challenges and opportunities that will arise from the reforms.
Pippa Gough gives her perspective on the care her parents have received, what good care looks like, and how and why care varies across the health service.
Dr Steve Morris, Clinical Psychologist. discusses the benefits of providing a session for staff from all disciplines to discuss difficult emotional and social issues arising from patient care.
Samantha Swinglehurst, Lead Nurse, Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders Service, explains how the Schwartz Center Rounds® work and who presents at them.
Keith Hunt, Complementary Therapy Co-ordinator, shares the story he presented at a Round and the lessons he's learnt since the Rounds were established at the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust two years ago.
Shirena Counter, Therapy Clinical Operations Manager, shares a moving story from one of the Rounds and talks about how they have benefitted staff at the hospital.
Catherine Davies, Acting Director of the Co-operation and Competition Panel, looks at how competition will shape the provider landscape and what the new regime will mean for NHS providers.
Candace Imison, Deputy Director of Policy at The King's Fund, gives an overview of the QIPP challenge, where we are now and the challenges for NHS providers going forward.
Sir Robert Naylor, Chief Executive at University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, discusses the big challenges facing NHS providers and looks at whether mergers are the answer to financial and performance issues.
Dr Mark Goldman, Chief Executive, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust was part of the expert panel at the BMJ and The King's Fund debate: This House believes doctors are neglecting their duty to lead health service change. Here, he opposes the motion.
Dr James Mountford, expert consultant, McKinsey and Company's London Healthcare Practice sat on the expert panel for the BMJ and The King's Fund debate: This House believes doctors are neglecting their duty to lead health service change. Here, he proposes the motion.
Dr James Cave, GP, Berkshire West Primary Care Trust, was part of the expert panel at the BMJ and The King's Fund debate: This House believes doctors are neglecting their duty to lead health service change. Here, he opposes the motion.
Richard Bohmer, Harvard Business School, opened the 2009 debate from The King's Fund and BMJ, giving an international perspective on the importance of the individual against the importance of the processes of the organisation as a whole.
Professor Alan Maynard, Professor of Health Economics, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, proposes the motion that doctors are neglecting their duty to lead health service change at the 2008 debate hosted by The King's Fund and the BMJ.
Cancer patient and author Colin Ludlow thinks better and simpler communication would improve patient experience. This audio has been collected as part of The King's Fund work programme, the Point of Care.
Chris Ham, Ben Page and Anna Dixon take questions from the floor at the 'Future Challenges for the NHS' conference at The King's Fund in June 2010.
Panel debate: Anna Dixon asks what the incoming government means for the NHS and what should the government’s first priority for the NHS be at The King's Fund conference on the future of the NHS.
The panel consisted of:
Robert Creighton, Chief Executive, NHS Ealing Professor Steve Field, Chair, former Royal College of General Practitioners Malcolm Lowe-Lauri, Chief Executive, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust Jeremy Taylor, Chief Executive, National Voices
What are the challenges for the NHS? Chris Ham, Chief Executive at The King's Fund, asks what the future holds for the coalition government and the NHS.
The NHS, the election and after...
Ben Page, Chief Executive at Ipsos MORI, explains how the public view the NHS and the election at the 'Future Challenges for the NHS' conference at The King's Fund.
Where is the NHS now? Anna Dixon, Director of Policy at The King's Fund, reviews the achievements of the government and the NHS over the past 13 years.
Dr Rachael Addicott, Senior Research Fellow at The King's Fund, speaks on NHS staff views on employee ownership and engagement at the 'Creating employee-owned organisations in the NHS: engaging and empowering NHS staff' conference at The King's Fund.
Morag Oldfield, Research and Practice Development Midwife, North Middlesex Hospital, talks about the challenges facing maternity teams and how her team has worked with The King's Fund to increase safety in the labour ward
On 4 November 2009, The King’s Fund hosted a debate on whether health and social care integration could be one way of helping the system cope with rising demand, demographic change and significant funding restraint.
David Behan, the senior civil servant responsible for social care in England, unveiled four new key work strands that they are pursuing to move forward integration of health and social care.
Ali Parsa, Company Director at Circle, a private health care company, speaks at the 'Creating employee-owned organisations in the NHS: engaging and empowering NHS staff conference' at The King's Fund.
Andy Burnham MP, the Secretary of State for Health, joined us for the last of our three general election breakfast debates, and discussed his party's vision for the NHS.
He was joined on the panel by Richard Vize, editor of Health Service Journal and Dan Wellings, Director of Public Health Research at Ipsos MORI, with the event chaired by Professor Chris Ham, Chief Executive of The King's Fund.
Anne Milton MP, Lindsey Davies, Anna Dixon and Julian Le Grand took part in a panel debate on public health, with questions posed from the audience.
For more go to: http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/events/past_events_catch_up/public_health_a_new.html
Anna Dixon, Head of Policy, talks about public health in relation to the NHS White Paper.
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Lindsey Davies, President of the Faculty of Public Health, discusses what is needed to improve the state of public health in England.
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Anne Milton MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department of Health), lays out the government's future plans for public health.
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Tania Browes, Midwifery Manager for Community Services, Ipswich Hospital, talks about the lessons she and her team have learnt from the Safer Births programme.
Anna Walker, chair of the Office of Rail Regulation Board, draws on her experience of the competition regime in the utilities sector to discuss what choice and competition can offer the NHS.
Dr Anna Dixon explains Monitor's new responsibilites and looks at the challenges it faces in regulating the NHS. While there are some clear advantages for having a specialist regulator of health, there are also a number of factors that will make Monitor's role very complicated.
This interview draws on our publication on regulation, Economic regulation in health care: What can we learn from other regulators?
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In our exclusive interview, Dr Hugh Griffiths, Acting National Clinical Director for Mental Health, Department of Health, outlines the key themes of the government’s mental health strategy for England and looks at how outcomes for people with physical and mental health conditions can be improved.
For more information go to: http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/multimedia/hugh_interview.html
Dr Anna Dixon, Director of Policy at The King's Fund, responds to Sonia Brown's presentation on economic and competition regulation, and considers how we could achieve competition and integration in a reformed NHS.
Imelda Redmond OBE, former Chief Executive of Carers UK, discusses what it's like to be a carer and what opportunities need to be grasped to ensure services are modernised sufficiently in the future.
Marianne Talbot gives a personal and moving account of the challenges she faced while caring for her mother. This audio was recorded for The King's Fund Point of Care programme.
Sonia Brown, Chief Economist at Monitor, discusses how economic and competition regulation can promote integration of services, plus the core role Monitor will have around integrated care and where it can add value as a regulator.
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Sally Brearley, discusses the relationship between patients, information and choice at The King's Fund NHS Information Revolution conference 2011.
Drawing on examples from other industries, the Visiting Senior Research Fellow in public and patient involvement from King's College London, sets out to prove that offering a limited choice and information can result in more patients becoming involved in their own care.
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Ros Altmann, Lord Warner, Shaun Gallagher and Nick Starling give their response to the findings of the Commission on Funding of Care and Support.
Nick Starling, Director, General Insurance and Health, Association of British Insurers, discusses what would stimulate the finance sector to create new care products.
Ros Altmann, Lord Warner, Shaun Gallagher and Nick Starling give their response to the findings of the Commission on Funding of Care and Support.
Shaun Gallagher, Director of Social Care Policy, Department of Health, looks at what areas within the extending social care spend could be looked at to make improvements.
Ros Altmann, Lord Warner, Shaun Gallagher and Nick Starling give their response to the findings of the Commission on Funding of Care and Support.
Lord Norman Warner, Commissioner and former Minister for Health, puts forward the next steps that need to be taken following Dilnot's recommendations.
Ros Altmann, Lord Warner, Shaun Gallagher and Nick Starling give their response to the findings of the Commission on Funding of Care and Support.
Dr Ros Altmann, Director-General, Saga, outlines some of the urgent problems currently facing the social care system.
Mike Farrar, Chief Executive, NHS Confederation, looks at how the NHS can meet the Nicholson Challenge to deliver £20 billion in productivity improvements.
Peter Hay, Emily Thornberry, Cynthia Bower, Allan Bowman and Peter Beresford tell us what they think about the Law Commission adult social care framework recommendations.
Professor Peter Beresford, Director, Centre for Citizen Participation, Brunel University, outlines the fundamental barriers to taking forward personalised support.
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Peter Hay, Emily Thornberry, Cynthia Bower, Allan Bowman and Peter Beresford tell us what they think about the Law Commission adult social care framework recommendations.
Cynthia Bower, Chief Executive of the Care Quality Commission, looks at what care providers can do to help improve the social care system.
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Peter Hay, Emily Thornberry, Cynthia Bower, Allan Bowman and Peter Beresford tell us what they think about the Law Commission adult social care framework recommendations.
Allan Bowman, Chair of the Social Care Institute for Excellence, discusses the need for a genuine partnership between professionals and people in communities to help deliver social care.
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Peter Hay, Emily Thornberry, Cynthia Bower, Allan Bowman and Peter Beresford tell us what they think about the Law Commission adult social care framework recommendations.
Emily Thornberry MP looks at the areas of the Law Commission report that still need further clarification.
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Peter Hay, Emily Thornberry, Cynthia Bower, Allan Bowman and Peter Beresford tell us what they think about the Law Commission adult social care framework recommendations.
Peter Hay, President of ADASS, discusses how the new legal framework provides opportunities to overcome the challenges facing the current social care system.
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Jack Wennberg, Founder of the Centre for Evaluative Clinical Evidence and of the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, discusses his work on reducing unwarranted variations in the US and makes suggestions for moving forward with this work in the English NHS.
Jill Watts outlines the work of Ramsay Health Care UK and discusses the benefits of opening up the NHS to a greater diversity of providers.
Chris Ham puts forward the core arguments for integrated care and outlines the Fund's contribution to the NHS Future Forum listening exercise.
Victor Adebowale, Chief Executive of Turning Point, discusses the not-for-profit provision of health and social care and the risks associated with competition.
How does integration work in practice? Dr Sarah Wollaston, GP and a member of the Health Select Committee, outlines how successful Torbay have been in creating an integrated care system to improve care for people in the area.
Carol Propper, Professor of Economics at Imperial College Business School, talks about international perspectives on choice and competition in health care and outlines the potential for competition to deliver quality improvements in the NHS.
What next for integrated care? Following the launch of the Future Forum report, Steve Field looks at the role of integrated care in the NHS at a recent event at The King's Fund.
Speaking at an event at The King's Fund, Deborah Evans gives her take on the benefits and risks of diversifying the NHS provider base, using examples from NHS Bristol.
Dr Stephen Dunn explains how NHS East of England has used competition to drive up quality, outcomes and efficiency, and improve health care for the people in the region.
Paul Zollinger-Read, Medical Adviser and Clinical Lead for Primary Care at The King's Fund, looks at how we can create a truly integrated health and social care system in a reformed NHS.
Tom Hughes-Hallett, Chief Executive of Marie Curie Cancer Care, discusses the Palliative Care Funding Review and considers the responsibilities of the NHS in commissioning end-of-life care.
Sir Ian Kennedy, Chair of the independent inquiry into the Quality of General Practice in England, talks to us about the findings of the inquiry, why it was initiated and what the implications might be for staff working in general practice.
John Healey, MP, Shadow Health Secretary, set out Labour's response to the Health and Social Care Bill at The King's Fund. He emphasised their concern with the new system of GP commissioning and the speed at which these changes will be implemented
Julie Estcourt, Head of Midwifery, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, talks about how her team have improved the safety of out-of-hours maternity services and gives advice to maternity teams facing the same challenges.
With the publication of the Health and Social Care Bill, Anna Dixon gives her opinion on its key points, what's still missing and what it must achieve to secure productivity gains and financial savings for the NHS.
Morag Oldfield, Research and Practice Development Midwife, North Middlesex Hospital, talks about the challenges facing maternity teams and how her team have worked with The King's Fund to increase safety in the labour ward.
Jim Easton, Director for Improvement and Efficiency, Department of Health, discusses how the QIPP health agenda has been working so far and how quality of care can be improved whilst implementing substantial efficiency savings.
Clive Bowman, Medical Director of BUPA Care Services, looks at the challenge of commissioning end-of-life services from a care home provider perspective.
Lord Howe, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Quality, Department of Health, gives an overview of the proposed health reforms and outlines the productivity challenges facing the NHS.
Taken from the third in our series of events on health and the Big Society, this audio relates to questions asked about community change and case studies, health inequalities and the balance of legislation and action.
The panel at this event featured Dr David Halpern, Director of the Cabinet Office's Behavioural Insights Team, Baroness Buscombe, Chair of the Press Complaints Commission and a leading member of the Public Health Commission established by the Conservative Party in opposition, and Dr Andrew Jones, Group Medical Director at Nuffield Health.
Taken from the third in our series of events on health and The Big Society, this audio features the questions asked to the panel as they discussed nudging improvements in public health.
The panel at this event featured Dr David Halpern, Director of the Cabinet Office's Behavioural Insights Team, Baroness Buscombe, Chair of the Press Complaints Commission and a leading member of the Public Health Commission established by the Conservative Party in opposition, and Dr Andrew Jones, Group Medical Director at Nuffield Health.
We spoke to Laura Churchward about her role as Divisional Manager for Paediatrics and Adolescent Services at UCLH and about the future of NHS leadership.
Speaking at the second in a series of events on health and the Big Society, Dr Angela Coulter, health care analyst and consultant, gave her opinion on patient power versus professional capture, exploring patients' relationships with their GPs and their attitudes to choice.
We spoke to Mike Leaf about his role as Deputy Director of Public Health at NHS North Lancashire, and about the challenges that face NHS leaders today.
Speaking at the second in our series of events looking at health and the Big Society: Patient power or professional capture? - Dr Clare Gerada, Chair of the Royal College of General Practioners, looked at patient choice of treatment and provider and her own experience as a GP and a patient.
Joining us for the second event in our Health and Big Society series, Rt Hon Stephen Dorrell MP, spoke to us about patient power and professional capture, and how the government's plans will put patients at the heart of the NHS.
Helen McCarthy, Matron Lead Midwife, Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust, discusses the issues facing maternity staff today.
Listen to questions and comments from the panelists, Dr Clare Gerada and Dr Angela Coulter, and the floor during The King's Fund's Health and the Big Society event: Patient power or professional capture?
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Simon Cunningham, Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, talks about the Safer Births programme.
Teresa Manders, Head of Midwifery, St George's Healthcare NHS Trust, talks about how her team have met the challenges facing midwifery teams.
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Dr Joanna Bayley, GP PEC Member of NHS Gloucestershire, gives her view on GP commissioning.
Theresa Msanide, Clinical Midwifery Manager/ Lead Midwife/SOM, North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust, offers her top tips to other organisations facing challenges in maternity. This interview is part of The King's Fund's Safer Births programme.
Dr Paul Zollinger-Read, Chief Executive of NHS Cambridgeshire, provides an overview of how his primary care trust is managing the transition to the new system of GP commissioning.
Ciarán Devane, Chief Executive of Macmillan Cancer Support, talks about moving care for cancer patients out of acute settings and into the community, and patient involvement.
Dr Shane Gordon, GP and Chief Executive of the Colchester Practice-based Commissioning Group, gives his perspective on GP commissioning.
Simon Knighton, Chief Executive, Expert Patients Programme, talks about how to integrate the principles of self care into integrated care in a primary setting, increasing patient involvement and the co-ordination of patient care across the community.
Dr William Lumb, GP and Board Member of Westmoreland Primary Care Collaborative, discusses his experiences of implementing GP commissioning, how the system works in practice and the challenges ahead.
Sir Muir Gray, Chief Knowledge Officer, Department of Health, talks about the benefits of community-focused health care and patient involvement in the NHS. He discussed this in detail during the BMJ debate at The King's Fund Annual Conference 2010.
Katherine Ward, Chief Executive of UnitedHealth UK, describes how her company will fit into the new system of GP commissioning at an event hosted by The King's Fund.
Professor Steve Field, GP and Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners, discusses what GPs think about the new plans set out in the NHS White Paper.
Joanne Watson, clinical lead for the Hospital Pathways programme, discusses the programme and how it's been working so far. This patient experience programme is part of the Point of Care programme, run by The King's Fund and the Health Foundation.
Joanne Watson discusses her background and her role as clinical lead for the Hospital Pathways programme, part of the Point of Care programme run by The King's Fund and the Health Foundation.
Chris Ham, Chief Executive of The King's Fund, gives an overview of GP budget-holding using evidence from the US and the NHS.
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Joanne Watson, clinical lead for the Hospital Pathways Programme, talks through an example of the care pathways from her own experience. This programme forms part of The King's Fund's Point of Care programme.
Speaking at The King's Fund in March 2010, Conservative Shadow Health Minister, Stephen O'Brien, discusses how service redesign should be enabled at a local level.
Marjorie Stanzler, Director of Programs at the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center, Boston, talks about the Schwartz Center Rounds® programme and the pilot rounds taking place in England.
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Stephen O'Brien on the social care consensus
Stephen O'Brien outlines his party's position on a possible cross-party consensus on social care. Conservative Shadow Health Minister, Stephen O'Brien, outlines his party's position on a possible cross-party consensus on social care.
Joanne Watson, clinical lead for The Point of Care's Hospital Pathways programme, talks about what the future holds for the programme and what she hopes it will achieve in improving patient experience.
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Stephen O'Brien, Conservative Shadow Health Minister spoke on the variability of NHS services at The King's Fund in March 2010.
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On Monday 22 February 2010, Nick Clegg visited The King's Fund to speak on his proposals for health and social care reform in England.
For more information go to: http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/multimedia/nick_clegg_speaking.html
Norman Lamb MP, Liberal Democrat Shadow Secretary of State for Health, spoke at our first general election breakfast debate on 9 February 2010 on placing the NHS at the heart of the election. What do the Lib Dems have to say?
Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited The King's Fund on 8 February 2010, to outline the government's plans for social care.
Dr Robin Youngson is an anaesthetist and the founder of the Centre for Compassion in Health Care in New Zealand. He spoke at a joint event with NHS Confederation at The King’s Fund on 14 September 2009.
In this interview, he outlines why he believes compassion is so important, where things have gone wrong, and how he believes doctors and their organisations can put compassion at the heart of health care.
On 4 November 2009, The King’s Fund hosted a debate on whether health and social care integration could be one way of helping the system cope with rising demand, demographic change and significant funding restraint.
David Behan, the senior civil servant responsible for social care in England, unveiled four new key work strands that they are pursuing to move forward integration of health and social care.
Andy Burnham spoke about achieving efficiency and quality in the NHS at The King's Fund's breakfast debate on 17 September 2009.
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Professor Lord Darzi KBE, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Health, spoke at The King's Fund's Clinicians, quality and data conference on 28 April 2009. His speech included:
• putting the NHS Next Stage Review into the context of the policies undertaken in the preceeding years • the role of quality as an organising principle, to ensure quality improvement measuring safety, clinical effectiveness and patient experience • the role of NICE and the Care Quality Commission in the measurement of quality standards.
Anton Obholzer, consultant psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and former Chief Executive of the Tavistock Centre, discusses compassion in medical care as part of our work on the Point of Care programme.
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Jenny Firth-Cozens, a consultant organisational psychologist and freelance writer, discusses the effects and value of compassion as part of our Point of Care programme.
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David Levine, President and Director General, Health and Social Services Agency, in Montreal, Canada, discusses how the use of evidence in Montreal led to an integration of health services, changes in commissioning and the introduction of polyclinics.
For more information go to: http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/multimedia/annual_conference_1.html
Geoff Mulgan, Director of The Young Foundation talks about the Foundation's work on the importance of developing patients' resilience, so that they are able to successfully bounce back from illness.
For more information go to: http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/multimedia/annual_conference_2.html
Service lead, Elaine Hide, talks about why she’s examining ‘touch points’ – highs and lows of care for patients and staff – to improve care in her trust. This audio has been collected as part of our work programme: the Point of Care programme.
Baroness Barbara Young, Chair of the Care Quality Commission, asks Lord Darzi about the licensing process for NHS providers at an event following the publication of the NHS Next Stage Review.
Find out more: http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/multimedia/baroness_young.html
Niall Dickson, former Chief Executive of The King's Fund, explains why the Fund chose to focus on evidence-based service change at the 2008 Annual Conference, as we move into a new era of quality and value in services.
Chris Russell, Vice President of the Royal College of Surgeons, asks Lord Darzi about overcoming health apathy in some sections of the community at an event in June 2008 following the publication of the NHS Next Stage Review.
For more information go to: http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/multimedia/an_audience_with_2.html
Helen McCallum, Director of Policy at Which?, asks Lord Darzi about the difficulties in convincing patients to relate their experiences at an event following the publication of the NHS Next Stage Review.
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Jeremy Hughes, Chief Executive of Breakthrough Breast Cancer, asks Lord Darzi about the risk of a new kind of postcode lottery at an event following the publication of the NHS Next Stage Review. This audio includes a follow-up question from Niall Dickson.
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Speaking at The King's Fund, Liberal Democrat party leader, Nick Clegg, talks about moving from central targets to local patient entitlements in the NHS.
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In his keynote speech at The King's Fund in June 2008, Lord Darzi emphasised the shift towards measuring quality of care and explained how standards will be prioritised and set. He spoke about patient choice being the most important lever in driving care standards – providing patients with the right tools to make an informed choice about their care. Lord Darzi also made the case for increased accountability and the importance of greater transparency through reporting.
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Speaking at The King's Fund in June 2008, Liberal Democrat party leader, Nick Clegg, talks about moving towards more local control in the NHS.
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Niall Dickson, former Chief Executive of The King's Fund, asks Lord Darzi about NHS quality and information at an event following the publication of the NHS Next Stage Review.
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Speaking at The King's Fund, Liberal Democrat party leader, Nick Clegg, talked about the NHS at 60.
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Speaking at The King's Fund, Liberal Democrat party leader, Nick Clegg, discusses increasing access to primary care in deprived areas.
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Speaking at The King's Fund, Liberal Democrat party leader Nick Clegg considers the use of patient advocates in a speech from June 2008.
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