Blog | The King's Fund

Co-production: an inconvenient truth?

Jane McGrath of community interest company West London Collaborative sets out what distinguishes true co-production from patient involvement.

A new and powerful relationship with patients

Marcus Powell considers how, in a digital world, patients can embrace the opportunity to become partners and share in the decision-making that affects their care.

Challenging traditional relationships and embracing shared decision-making

After a busy few days at NHS Confederation conference, Marcus Powell reflects on how the health service can build a new relationship with patients.

Three challenges for clinical leaders in 2016

With January now having drawn to a close, Vijaya Nath takes the opportunity to review the challenges for clinical leaders in the year ahead.

System leaders and patient leaders: learning from a new relationship

What does a positive and effective patient leader/system leader relationship look like, how does it develop and what makes it work? David Sgorbati looks at what we can learn from how these relationships form.

The story of us: our relationship with patients, service users and the public

Becky Seale shares the story of The King's Fund's new and still emerging relationship with patients, service users and citizens, how it has developed so far and where it might go in the future.

Patient involvement and empowerment

Kirsty Morrison look through our digital archive to explore the Fund's work on patient involvement.

A new relationship with patients and communities?

There are welcome signs that policy-makers and NHS leaders are becoming more open to exploring how health professionals could work more collaboratively with patients as leaders.

Sharing leadership with patients and service users: conversations at the borderline

What more is possible when leadership is shared with patients and service users? This was the question we posed at a roundtable event last month.

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