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.

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.

Social enterprise summit

Bridging co-operation and competition in the NHS?
This summit was the first in a series considering reforms to local health systems and changes in power and alignment between local authorities, the third sector and the NHS.

The future of social care funding

With a keynote address from the Minister of State for Care Services, Paul Burstow MP, our breakfast event with Age UK considered the future of social care funding.

Supporting independent living

Engaging health and social care in new technologies
This invitation only summit, was jointly run with the Technology Strategy Board, and provided information on the DALLAS programme, looking at approaches to supporting independent living for frail older people and people with long-term conditions.

Any willing provider

NHS and public service reform event series
Our second NHS and public service reform event focused on how diversity of supply can benefit the NHS and patients, the potential risks associated with it and how policy can be successfully implemented.

NHS Leadership and Management Summit

This summit launched the findings of the Commission on Leadership and Management in the NHS, and showcased the very best of leadership and change management in the NHS.

GP Pathfinder Consortia Development Conference

Preparing for the commissioning challenges ahead
Through a series of high profile presentations and practically-based case studies, this conference examined the challenges and potential pitfalls associated with recent NHS reforms.

Choice and competition

NHS and public service reform event series
Discussions at our first NHS and public service reform breakfast event focused on choice and competition in the context of wider health reforms.

Leadership in the NHS: reflections of a Chief Medical Officer

For the last in our series of lectures on leadership and management in the NHS, we heard from Professor Sir Liam Donaldson, Chief Medical Officer from 1998-2010. This lecture series is part of The King's Fund's Commission on Leadership and Management in the NHS.

Integrated care: realising the vision

Practical actions to improve outcomes
This major one-day conference brought together experts from the United States and England to consider the practicalities of integrated health and social care.

Leadership in the NHS: reflections of an NHS Chief Executive

The second in our series of lectures on leadership and management in the NHS featured Sir Alan Langlands talking about his role as an NHS Chief Executive. This lecture series is part of The King's Fund's Commission on Leadership and Management in the NHS

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