Bumper edition of Bertie’s Book Group newsletter
Source: The King’s Fund Library
This newsletter combines all the discussions from the November and December book group meetings and looks ahead to the books we’ll be reading in 2023.
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Podcast
The cost of the living crisis
Source: The King’s Fund
Anna Charles speaks to Torsten Bell, Chief Executive of the Resolution Foundation, Helen Barnard, Associate Director at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Marie Gabriel CBE, Chair of North East London Integrated Care System and Cormac Russell, Founding Director of Nurture Development, to find out how the cost-of-living crisis is impacting the nation’s health and wellbeing and what the health and care system can do in response.
Listen here: The cost-of-living crisis: is the nation’s health paying the price? | The King’s Fund (kingsfund.org.uk)
Free Online Course
Leading well for staff health and wellbeing in the NHSLeading well for staff health and wellbeing in the NHS
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This free online three-week course will help you develop your understanding of your own health and wellbeing as well as help you to learn to better lead and support your colleagues, team and organisation.
To find out more click here.
King’s Fund Free Online Course
Leading well for staff health and wellbeing in the NHS
The Covid-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented pressures on the health and social care workforce and is now compounding longstanding inequalities and challenges among staff. The role of a manager and leader in protecting, supporting and promoting the health and wellbeing of staff has, therefore, never been more necessary and urgent.
In this free, online, three-week course from the King’s Fund you’ll develop your understanding of your own health and wellbeing and learn to better lead and support your colleagues, team and organisation.
Click here to sign up for free.
King’s Fund Podcast
What are the health and care challenges for the next Prime Minister?
What are the immediate health and care pressures the next Prime Minister will need to address once they’re in post? Join host, Jo Vigor, and a panel of colleagues from The King’s Fund: policy adviser, Charlotte Wickens, Head of Policy, Sally Warren and Senior Policy Fellow, Simon Bottery as they discuss the impact this may have on health and social care.
To listen click on the image below.
Library Newsletter
September 2022
Take a look at our September newsletter featuring our resource of the month – The King’s Fund, details of our next lunch and learn session and our coffee morning later this month. We hope you enjoy reading this newsletter and as always value any feedback you may have. Please get in touch should you require any more support or advice from the Library Team.
If you do have a few spare minutes, please let us know your views on our service by completing our short survey.
How does the NHS work and how is it changing?
The King’s Fund Animation
Watch The King’s Fund new animation to discover the key organisations that make up the NHS and how they can collaborate with partners in the health and care system to deliver joined-up care.
Watch here: How does the NHS in England work and how is it changing? | The King’s Fund (kingsfund.org.uk)
Resource of the Month
The King’s Fund
The King’s Fund is an independent charitable organisation working to improve health and care in England. Their vision is that the best possible health and care is available to all.
The King’s Fund provides a range of consultancy and advisory services which bring together a deep understanding of the health and care system, policy expertise and experience of supporting and developing leaders and organisations.
The library regularly shares reports, blog posts and other information from The King’s Fund on the library blog and on our Twitter page.
To get the latest news from The King’s Fund straight to your inbox subscribe to their email newsletters and health care information bulletins here.
Please feel free to download our resource of the month poster and share with your team or within your department.
Podcast
Tackling health inequalities
Source: The King’s Fund Podcast
Helen McKenna talks with Dr Bola Owolabi, Director of Health Inequalities at NHS England and NHS Improvement, about the NHS’s spheres of influence, the power of gathering around a common cause, and whether the experience of the pandemic will lead to a step change in tackling health inequalities.
Listen to the podcast here
Health Inequalities
Equity and endurance: how can we tackle health inequalities this time?
Source: The King’s Fund
The case for tackling health inequalities is clear and overwhelming, and yet attempts to do so in recent decades have had mixed success. Crucially, none of these efforts have translated into the enduring focus on addressing health inequalities that is needed.
Read more here.