The King's Fund annual conference 2018

• Hear about our vision for population health, built on the four key pillars of the wider determinants of health, health behaviours, an integrated health and care system, and communities and health.
• Discover the key outcomes that we should expect from a population health system, and the changes to workforce, funding and accountability needed to support it.
• Hear about examples of population health in England and elsewhere. 
• Find out what a population health approach means for system leadership and integrated health and care in the future.

David Buck, Senior Fellow, Public Health and Health Inequalities, The King’s Fund
Durka Dougall, Senior Consultant, Leadership and Organisational Development, The King's Fund

Panellists include:

• Shirley Cramer CBE, Chief Executive, Royal Society for Public Health 
• Geraint Lewis, Chief Data Officer, NHS England 
• Ruth Hussey, Former Chief Medical Officer for Wales 
• Michael Wood, NHS Local Growth Adviser, NHS Confederation
• Adrian Masters, Director of Strategy, Public Health England

• The Montefiore Health System in New York is a pioneering accountable care organisation that has been able to improve the quality of patient care, while reducing expenditure through enhanced care co-ordination.
• In this session, you will hear about Montefiore’s approach to tackling the wider determinants of health in the Bronx and the components of the approach that could provide lessons for the NHS. 

Stephen Rosenthal, Senior Vice-President, Population Health Management, Montefiore Health System

• This session will look at how Wigan Council has been working with partners to support local people to live healthier lives.
• Learn how the council has invested in communities and is working in partnership with them on early intervention with children, support for troubled families, combating loneliness and providing food to people on low incomes.

Kate Ardern, Director of Public Health, Wigan Council 
Lynne Calvert, Service Manager – Live Well, Wigan Council

• In this session you will learn how Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council made improved public health outcomes for residents one of the its top priorities by ensuring it was included across policy work, service delivery and decision-making in the council.

• This session will look at Sheffield City Council’s approach to securing good health outcomes at individual, community and population levels.
• Learn how a whole society has been involved in finding solutions to tackling issues around health.

Greg Fell, Director of Public Health, Sheffield City Council 
Jackie Drayton, Cabinet Member for Children, Young People and Families, Sheffield City Council

• In this session you will learn about Bicester’s vision to create a healthy community by making it easy, attractive and affordable for people of all ages to live healthy, sustainable lifestyles.
• You will learn about how the town has used the opportunities presented by population growth to trial new innovations.

• Hear the latest updates on how integrated care systems are developing in England and the learning for local and national leaders.

Anna Charles, Senior Policy Adviser to the Chief Executive, The King’s Fund
Matthew Kershaw, Senior Fellow, Policy, The King’s Fund
 

• Learn how population health is being implemented across Greater Manchester.

• Hear about the work that NHS England is doing to support the implementation of ICSs.

Panellists include:

• Michael Macdonnell, National Director, Transforming Health Systems, NHS England 
• Sarah Price, Executive Lead – Population Health and Commissioning, Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership 
• Wendy Saviour, Managing Director, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Health and Care STP 
• Sir Andrew Morris, Chief Executive, Frimley Health and Care Integrated Care System 

• This session will look at one approach to setting up an integrated care system, with priorities and aims, including the approach Surrey Heartlands Health and Care Partnership has taken, choosing to make the first 1,000 days of life a focus of its work to remove health inequalities.

Speaker to be confirmed shortly. 

• This session will look at examples of using patient insight and feedback to drive improvements in integrated care systems, including understanding local populations, how people use services, and what could be improved.  

• In this session, system leaders will reflect on the challenges and successes of leading across a local system to deliver integrated care.

Dr Anita Donley, Independent Chair, Essex Success Regime/STP 
Dame Ruth Carnall, Trustee, The King’s Fund 

This session will look at the future of population health and integrated care systems in England.

• Hear reflections on what the 10-year plan for the NHS will involve and how NHS England and others are developing the plan. 

Speaker to be confirmed shortly.

• This year the health and care system will have a new long-term funding settlement, social care Green Paper and 10-year plan and workforce strategy.
• In this session, we will discuss what these announcements mean for services and what the past can teach us about making the most of these opportunities.

• Hear an update on the current funding situation and where it sits in the broader context of public sector funding and the economy.

• Hear about the challenges and opportunities for health, social care and public health and what it means for the future.

• Hear reflections on the implications for social care funding from the recent Green Paper and the upcoming Spending Review.

Speaker to be confirmed shortly.

Speaker to be confirmed shortly.

• This session will explore which areas should be prioritised by health and care systems, potential solutions to funding challenges and how change can be delivered in practice.

• Hear how personal health budgets can be used to spend health funding to meet the needs of an individual, particularly for those with long term health conditions and disabilities, offering more choice and control over the money spent.

• Hear what is being done by national bodies to provide solutions to funding challenges

Speaker to be confirmed shortly.

• Hear an example of what organisations are doing to find practical solutions to the challenges around funding and provision.

Speaker to be confirmed shortly.

Details to be confirmed shortly.

• What is the relationship between the NHS and the public?
• Is public support for the NHS a barrier to change?
• How can patients and the public be represented and involved in decision-making both locally and nationally in the NHS?
• Who do patient groups represent?  

Dr Rachel Clarke, Palliative Care Doctor, Author, Journalist and Activist 
Christie Watson, Nurse, and Author of The language of Kindness 
Trish Longdon, Strategic Lay Forum Member, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust 

• This session will discuss the relationship between public health and the public, including what has been key to the success of public health campaigns, what are the reasons some campaigns haven’t worked, what should be in the remit for public health and whether the responsibility for staying healthy should be with the state or with individuals.

David Buck, Senior Fellow, Public Health and Inequalities, The King’s Fund 
Louise Park, Associate Director, Ipsos Mori

• This session will discuss the relationship between mental health and the public, including reflections on the recent increase in public awareness of mental health, the impact on mental health services and how people think about their own mental health.  

• This session will discuss the relationship between social care and the public, including confusion around what the term ‘social care’ means, which services people are entitled to, how the system works and how it is accessed.

Sarah Allan, Head of Engagement, INVOLVE 
Anastasia Knox, Research Director, Britain Thinks 

• This session will discuss NHS redesign and the public, including how to engage with your population on difficult and nuanced situations around provision and design of services.

Hilary Cottam, Innovator, Social Entrepreneur, and Author of Radical Help

More speakers to be announced shortly.