Public health

Activities

• Changes to the Health and Social Care Bill: Public health

  Future Forum reforms to the Health and Social Care Bill proposed a greater duty on the Secretary of State to reduce health inequalities.

• 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)

• 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)

• Social Enterprise Summit

  This summit was the first in a series considering reforms to local health systems and changes in power and alignments between local authorities, the third sector and the NHS. (Past event, 29 Jun 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)

• Health and Social Care Bill briefing

  A summary of The King's Fund's views on the health and Social Care Bill, this briefing sets out our thoughts on commissioning, market-based and provider reforms and public health. (Briefing, 28 Jan 2011)

• 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)

• Health policy priorities for Parliament

  Contributed by key health sector figures and commentators, this publication provides information on the key health policy agenda priorities and how they can be addressed and advanced in the coming years. (Publication, November 2010)

• Big Society: Political philosophy and implications for health policy

  An overview of the Big Society and what it means for health care in England, this briefing raised a number of questions and issues, including nudging to improve public health, community empowerment and patient power. (Briefing, Beccy Ashton, 26 Oct 2010)

• Public health: a new direction?

  Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health, Anne Milton MP, joined us to discuss the implications of the reforms for public health. (Past event, 28 Jul 2010)

• Improving Chronic Disease Management

  The King’s Fund and the Commonwealth Fund of New York sponsored a seminar bringing together leading policy-makers, clinicians and academics from England and the USA to share experiences. (Publication, Anna Dixon, Rebecca Rosen, Perviz Asaria, 28 Nov 2007)