Past events catch-up

We run a variety of events for people in health and social care, from breakfast discussions with key stakeholders to large open conferences on leading health and social care issues.

International integrated care summit

Featuring Kenneth Kizer and Andrew Lansley MP, our international integrated care summit showcased case studies from home and abroad, and brought together experts in system design, care co-ordination and delivering change.

Richard Bohmer on leadership

Leadership in the NHS lecture series
At the third of our lectures supporting our 2012 Review of Leadership, Richard Bohmer, Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School and International Visiting Fellow at the Fund, spoke about clinical leadership for service improvement.

Delivering better maternity care conference

For midwives and maternity professionals, this event explored the challenges facing maternity care and provided practical ideas to support maternity units to provide better care.

Elisabeth Buggins on leadership

Leadership in the NHS lecture series
In the second of our lectures supporting our 2012 Review of Leadership, Elisabeth Buggins, Chair of Birmingham Women's NHS Foundation Trust, talked about leadership styles and implications for board leadership.

International Congress on Telehealth and Telecare 2012

68 Mar 2012
Organised by The King's Fund and the University Medical Center, Utrecht, our annual event brought together key speakers from around the world to showcase innovations and best practice in the deployment of telehealth and telecare.

Ciarán Devane on leadership

Leadership in the NHS lecture series
Ciarán Devane, CEO, Macmillan Cancer Support, leads the first of our lectures being held as part of our Review of Leadership in the NHS.

Managing demand on secondary care

Our seminar brought together clinical commissioning groups, financial managers, NHS managers, and other key stakeholders to discuss the challenges of managing demand on secondary care.

Caring for the growing numbers of frail older people

An international perspective
This lively evening debate explored how best to design a robust health care system in the UK that fully addresses the needs of frail older people.

Creating incentives to improve quality and promote integration

Featuring Professor Steve Field and Dana Safran, this conference explored US models of integrated care and provided lessons for NHS commissioners and providers on incentivising integration to improve quality and reduce costs.

The King's Fund Annual Conference 2011

Featuring Andrew Dilnot, Liam Donaldson and Jeremy Hughes, our Annual Conference looked beyond the health reforms and focused on how to improve the delivery of health and care.

Transforming patient experience annual conference

This conference showcased the best of the Point of Care programme and provided a forum for frontline staff to explore the possibilities for achieving truly patient-centred in today's NHS.

Commissioning for integrated care

This conference looked in detail at how to commission for integrated care, following the recommendations from the NHS Future Forum.

The NHS in an age of austerity

How tight is the squeeze?
This event offered a timely opportunity to discuss the macro-economic outlook, its implications for public services and what this means for the NHS.

The NHS Information Revolution conference

Using information to improve quality
This conference explored the proposed information revolution in the NHS and considered how to overcome the technical and cultural challenges to implementing the information strategy.

The role of mental health services in improving care for long-term conditions

This event showed how supporting the mental health needs of people with long-term conditions provides better outcomes for patients, quality improvements and productivity gains.

Beyond Dilnot: a new future for social care?

With a White Paper expected later this year, this conference brought together a platform of key policy designers and decision-makers to deliberate the future of social care provision.

Reducing unwarranted variations in health care

This event looked at how patterns of variations can support health professionals to meet the QIPP challenges of £20 billion efficiency savings by 2014/15.

Health and wellbeing board summit

Shaping local services around the needs of communities
Our health and wellbeing board summit provided insights from early implementers and considered some of the key challenges around building new relationships with GP consortia and creating successful governance and accountability arrangements.

Public health system reform summit

Getting the balance right
The second summit in our changing the health care landscape series considered some of the core challenges and solutions to successful public health reform.

The role of integrated care

NHS and public service reform event series
Our final NHS and public service reform breakfast event offered a timely opportunity to discuss the role of integrated care and how it can address the challenges facing the NHS.

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