Health inequalities

Activities

• Lessons from India: Aravind Eye Care System

  We speak to Dr Ravindran of the Aravind Eye Care System about his pioneering work of delivering eye care in Tamil Nadu, India. (Article, 24 Nov 2011)

• NHS Future Forum: Question and answer session

  Professor Steve Field and other members of the NHS Future Forum take questions on their recommendations to the government. (Video, 13 Jun 2011)

• NHS Future Forum

  Professor Steve Field and the NHS Future Forum launched its findings at a press conference at The King's Fund. (13 Jun 2011)

• Reducing unwarranted variations in health care

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

• No evidence that financial incentives for GPs have improved health or reduced inequalities

  The pay-for-performance scheme for GPs introduced in April 2004, known as the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF), has not resulted in improved ill-health prevention or health promotion by general practitioners, reveals new research. (Press release, 21 Apr 2011)

• Anna Dixon on the Impact of Quality and Outcomes Framework on health inequalities

  Anna Dixon, Director of Policy at The King's Fund, talks through the key points from our paper on Impact of Quality and Outcomes Framework on health inequalities. (Multimedia, 21 Apr 2011)

• Impact of Quality and Outcomes Framework on health inequalities

  Has the creation of the Quality and Outcomes Framework helped to address public health issues or reduce health inequalities? This paper summarises the research findings on QOF carried out in conjunction with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and commissioned by The National Institute for Health Research Service Delivery and Organisation programme. (Publication, Anna Dixon, 21 Apr 2011)

• Variations in health care: The good, the bad and the inexplicable

  Variations in health care in the NHS are a persistent and ubiquitous problem, but are some variations acceptable, and if so, how do we promote good variation? (Publication, John Appleby, 14 Apr 2011)

• John Appleby: Variations in health care

  John Appleby picks out some of the key graphs and figures in the report, Variations in health care: The good, the bad and the inexplicable. (Audio slideshow, 14 Apr 2011)

• Widespread variations in rates of surgery are unfair and inefficient, new study finds

  A new report from The King’s Fund has found persistent and widespread variations across England in patients’ chances of undergoing surgery for common medical conditions. (Press release, 14 Apr 2011)

• 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. (Past event, 4 Apr 2011)

• John Healey on the Health and Social Care Bill

  John Healey, MP, Shadow Health Secretary, set out Labour's response to the Health and Social Care Bill. (Multimedia, 20 Jan 2010)

• Nudging improvements in public health: Questions from the floor

  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 nudgeing improvements in public health. (Multimedia, 19 Jan 2011)

• Nudging improvements in public health - a Big Society Breakfast event at The King's Fund

  The third event in the Big Society and health series, 'Nudging improvements in public health' covered the implications of the government's public health White Paper and the potential for nudge to prompt behaviour change. (Past event, 18 Jan 2011)

• Patient power or professional capture? A breakfast event at The King's Fund

  This second event in our Big Society series examined how the government’s health reforms aiming to put patients at the heart of the NHS will link to the wider Big Society vision. (Past event, 7 Dec 2010)

• The King's Fund Annual Conference 2010: Improving health care in tough times

  This year The King's Fund Annual Conference explored opportunities for ways of funding, organising and delivering care that cross professional and organisational boundaries. (Past event, Nov 2010)

• Reforming the health system: local experiences

  The King’s Fund is working with partners in the University of Birmingham to explore the combined impact of health reforms since 2002. (Project)

• NICE technology appraisals

  The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is acknowledged as a world leader in its field, yet the prevailing media image of NICE is as a controversial mechanism for denying patients expensive new drugs. Teresa Poole looks at how NICE appraises new and existing drugs through clinical and economic evidence and looks at the impact of those appraisals, including difficulties with implementation of the recommendations. (Briefing, 15 Dec 2008)

• An audience with Lord Darzi

  Lord Darzi visited The King's Fund on 10 July 2008 to speak about the report from the NHS Next Stage Review, High Quality Care For All. Listen to extracts from his speech and the questions and answers session. (Past event, 10 Jul 2008)

• Access to health care and minority ethnic groups

  How effective is the NHS in providing accessible health care for all Britons, regardless of their ethnic or religious background? This briefing sets out the background to some of the issues. (Briefing, 9 Feb 2006)