Health And Social Care Policy, Leadership Development And …
WEBSep 9, 2024 · The King's Fund annual conference. Join leaders from across the health and care system to explore the challenges the system is facing and what change is needed. The King's Fund is a health and social care charity. We shape policy, provide leadership development services and host events for peers working across the NHS and health …
About Us - The King's Fund
WEBIn 1897, the then Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, founded The King’s Fund to raise money for London’s voluntary hospitals. The work of the Fund has evolved over time in response to the changing needs of the population, but our mission – to improve health and care for all – has endured. The money invested in the Fund more than a ...
What Is Social Prescribing? - The King's Fund
WEBSocial prescribing, also sometimes known as community referral, is a means of enabling health professionals to refer people to a range of local, non-clinical services. The referrals generally, but not exclusively, come from professionals working in primary care settings, for example, GPs or practice nurses. Recognising that people’s health ...
Leadership and leadership development in health care
WEBA key challenge facing all NHS organisations is to nurture cultures that ensure the delivery of continuously improving high-quality, safe and compassionate health care.Leadership is the most influential factor in shaping organisational culture and ensuring the necessary leadership behaviours, strategies and qualities are developed is fundamental.
What is a population health approach? - The King's Fund
WEBThe King’s Fund defines it as: An approach aimed at improving the health of an entire population. It is about improving the physical and mental health outcomes and wellbeing of people within and across a defined local, regional or national population, while reducing health inequalities. It includes action to reduce the occurrence of ill ...
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.
Integrated Care Systems Explained | The King's Fund
WEBAs argued in The King’s Fund’s vision for population health, an integrated health and care system is just one of the four pillars of a population health system. Evidence consistently shows that it is the wider conditions of people’s lives – their homes, financial resources, opportunities for education and employment, access to public ...
What are health inequalities? - The King's Fund
WEBHealth inequalities can therefore involve differences in: health status, for example, life expectancy. access to care, for example, availability of given services. quality and experience of care, for example, levels of patient satisfaction. behavioural risks to health, for example, smoking rates. wider determinants of health, for example ...
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.
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 develop a long-term plan for …