Events tagged as: NHS reform

The King's Fund Annual Conference 2012

This year, our Annual Conference took a critical look at NHS performance and considered if we are doing enough to meet productivity goals. It focused on how to deliver patient-centred care, and whether our public health and preventative agendas are robust enough to maintain a healthy population now and in the future.

The foundation trust non-executive role

Meeting the challenges
The conference aimed to help non-executive directors to develop a broader and more comprehensive understanding of the NHS, and individual areas including quality, finance, board dynamics, and the strategic challenges facing the health sector.

Time to Think Differently launch

To kick off our Time to Think Differently programme, we held a political debate with leading figures from each of the three main political parties.

Progressing health care in London

This conference looked at the role of NHS London and how health care in London will be provided in the future.

Making health and wellbeing boards a success

Transforming local health services
This conference provided an opportunity to reflect on the current health care landscape and the upcoming challenges and opportunities of transforming local health services.

Transforming the delivery of health and social care

Launch debate
We introduce the findings of our new report, Transforming the delivery of health and social care: the case for fundamental change.

Quality First: are we expecting too much from the regulator?

After the Act series
Our breakfast event focused on how to ensure quality and safety for patients ahead of the Francis Report into the failings at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust.

Social care reform – where next?

This conference provided an opportunity to reflect on social care reforms and hear about case studies of innovation from across the country.

Commissioning: making the reforms work

After the Act series
The second in our summer series of breakfast events explored the big challenges facing commissioners as the reforms to the commissioning system are implemented.

NHS providers: is bigger better?

After the Act series
The first in our summer series of breakfast events offered a timely opportunity to discuss the changing provider landscape and how it is likely to be shaped by the financial squeeze and the NHS reforms.

Second annual NHS leadership and management summit

Featuring a keynote from Sir David Nicholson, our NHS leadership and management summit explored what leadership skills and qualities support the development of new organisations, and considered how working across boundaries could improve local health outcomes.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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