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The King's Fund annual conference - register your interest

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Looking back at 2024

The King’s Fund 2024 annual conference brought together leaders from across the health and care system to explore the challenges the system is facing and what change is needed. We were delighted to welcome the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, who spoke to us about the findings of the Darzi review and outlined how his government plans to respond the stark challenges facing the sector.

Sir Keir Starmer

Conference sessions explored where we find hope amid uncertainty in the work being done by those in the health and care system and its partners, including local authorities and the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector. Discussions provided an opportunity to look at what it means to develop meaningful partnerships and engage communities, how organisations are taking a fresh approach to supporting staff wellbeing, how to support anti-racist concepts in the workplace, and what tackling the worst health outcomes looks like in practice.

Following the recent general election, further sessions provided an opportunity to consider what meaningful change looks and feels like, and how to make a difference, both to those working in health and care services and the people who rely on them. Whether this is through the use of innovative technology and life sciences, through focusing more on prevention, moving care closer to home, or by developing a health and social care workforce that is equipped to meet the challenges of the future.

You can now register you interest for the 2025 event below.

Register your interest for 2025

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2024 speakers included

  • Steve Russell

    Steve Russell

    Chief Delivery Officer and National Director for Vaccinations and Screening, NHS England
  • Richard Hughes

    Richard Hughes

    Chair, Office for Budget Responsibility
  • Dr Chris Van Tulleken, infectious disease doctor, academic researcher, and author of Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop?

    Dr Chris van Tulleken

    Infectious disease doctor, academic researcher, and author of 'Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop?'
  • Dame Una O'Brien

    Dame Una O’Brien DCB

    former Permanent Secretary, Department of Health (2010 to March 2016)
  • Kamila Hawthorne

    Professor Kamila Hawthorne

    Chair, Royal College of General Practitioners
  • Professor Mark Britnell photo

    Mark Britnell

    Professor, Global Business School for Health, UCL; Adjunct Professor, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto; Trustee, The King’s Fund
  • Photo of Marie Gabriel

    Marie Gabriel

    Chair, NHS North East London and Chair, NHS Race and Health Observatory
  • Patricia Hewitt photo

    Patricia Hewitt

    Chair, NHS Norfolk and Waveney, and Deputy Chair of the Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Partnership

2024 programme

Wednesday, 11 September 2024

The challenges facing those working in health and care services and the people who rely on them, and where we find hope.

Thursday, 12 September 2024

What meaningful change is needed to meet the challenges of the future.

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