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’We’re here and you’re there’: lived experiences of ethnic minority staff in the NHS

Shilpa Ross explores some common experiences from our research into what it means to be an ethnic minority member of staff in the NHS.
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By Shilpa Ross - 4 November 2019
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How town planning teams can help create healthier places

Julia Thrift, Projects Director for the Town & Country Planning Association, explores the relationship between town planning and population health, and how the lessons of NHS England’s Healthy New Towns programme should inform future developments to ensure people are able healthier lives and reduce health inequalities.
By Julia Thrift - 26 September 2019
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Crunch time for local system plans: five things to look out for

Anna Charles considers what we might learn from the local system plans currently being developed by sustainability and transformation partnerships and integrated care systems.
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By Anna Charles - 26 September 2019
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Healthy New Towns: how the NHS can help create healthy places

As NHS England publish the key learnings from its Healthy New Towns Programme, Alex Baylis explains why The King’s Fund has been involved in this work and how it links with our vision for population health.
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By Alex Baylis - 3 September 2019
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Inclusive leadership: how ready are we to learn?

Tracie Jolliff, Director of Inclusion at the NHS Leadership Academy, explains how inclusive leadership and cultures require personal dedication to change, as well as support and oversight at an organisational level.
By Tracie Jolliff - 8 August 2019
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Can less be more? The new approach to social care in South Tyneside

Simon Bottery considers joined-up health and social care in South Tyneside, with social workers joining ‘huddles’ on wards and using a ‘strength-based’ approach in discharge planning
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By Simon Bottery - 16 July 2019
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'We will back you': a positive approach to risk

In order to deliver personalised care to people using council services in Wigan, the council has adopted a fundamentally different approach to risk. Dan Wellings highlights how training staff to have ‘different conversations’ with people using their services and backing them to act on what they hear has allowed this transformation to take place.
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By Dan Wellings - 12 July 2019
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Capable of leading for diversity?

In this final blog in our series on diversity and inclusion at The King’s Fund, Sue Hills shares her experience of leading this work and considers some of the complexities involved.
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By Sue Hills - 4 July 2019
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Between a rock and a glass ceiling

The latest blog in our series on diversity and inclusion provides a personal reflection on the importance of paid internship opportunities.
By Anonymous - 26 June 2019
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Do you work for a racist organisation?

How has the Fund been tackling issues on diversity and inclusion? Hong-Anh Nguyen discusses the various challenges we’ve faced in working to create a more inclusive culture and diversifying our organisation.
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By Hong-Anh Nguyen - 21 June 2019
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Rekindling hope in public services

Ahead of the publication of our report on the Wigan Deal, Chris Naylor explores how devolving power to frontline staff and service users can create the positive culture needed for improvement.
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By Chris Naylor - 20 June 2019
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Life in the shadow of the snowy white peaks: race inequalities in the NHS workforce

What is it really like to work in the NHS as a black, Asian or minority ethnic member of staff? Shilpa Ross explores some early findings from The King’s Fund’s research into race inequalities in the health service.
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By Shilpa Ross - 13 June 2019
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The prevention Green Paper: the right time to put it in its place?

David Buck considers what is likely to be in the government’s Green Paper on prevention – and what should be in it.
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By David Buck - 24 May 2019
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