Podcast

What women want: addressing women’s health inequalities

Source: The King’s Fund

Host Helen McKenna speaks with Professor Dame Lesley Regan and Dr Janine Austin Clayton about women’s health journeys from start to finish. They explore why women can struggle to get medical professionals to listen to them and the impact this has on diagnosis and treatment, as well as the mental and physical effects on women themselves.

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Podcast

Protecting the public and supporting staff: Andrea Sutcliffe CBE on leadership and regulation

Source: The King’s Fund podcast

Andrea Sutcliffe CBE, Chief Executive and Registrar of the Nursing and Midwifery Council, talks with Helen McKenna about what it takes to cultivate safe, kind and effective care, getting regulation right, and what meaningful co-production with the public looks like.

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Podcast

What is the Health and Care Bill and why does it matter?

Source: The King’s Fund podcast

The Health and Care Bill could lead to major changes in how health care is organised in England. But what is the Bill ultimately trying to achieve and how will it make a difference to the care we receive?

Siva Anandaciva sits down with Richard Murray, Chief Executive of The King’s Fund, and Dame Ruth Carnall, former Chief Executive of the NHS in London, to make sense of the Bill, how these changes will be implemented and the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.

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Podcast

‘If you’re not counted, you don’t count’: what can be done to tackle LGBTQ+ health inequalities?

Source: The King’s Fund

People who identify as LGBTQ+ experience disproportionately worse health outcomes and have poorer experiences when accessing health services. Three years on from the Government’s LGBT action plan, Helen McKenna sat down with Dr Michael Brady, National Advisor for LGBT Health at NHS England, and Michelle Ross, Co-Founder and Director of Holistic Wellbeing services at cliniQ to explore the health inequalities LGBTQ+ people face and what needs to happen to make sure health services are inclusive.

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Podcast

What is the role of the NHS in tackling health inequalities?

Source: The King’s Fund

What is the role of the NHS in tackling health inequalities? | The King’s Fund

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.

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Podcast

The health care of tomorrow? International learning on community, technology, and avoiding digital exclusion

Source: The King’s Fund

Anna Charles talks with Dr Steven Tierney from Southcentral Foundation in Anchorage, Alaska, and Dr Henry Chung from Montefiore in New York, to explore how their health systems have transformed to better support local communities, and how to address digital exclusion in an increasingly digital world.

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Assessing England’s response to Covid-19

A framework

Source: The King’s Fund Health Management and Policy Alert

Learning the lessons from Covid-19 would allow England to better prepare for future pandemics, and understand the weaknesses and strengths of the health, care and public health systems. This framework sets out a structure to help untangle the complicated interactions between different elements of the response in England.

Developing place-based partnerships

The foundation of effective integrated care systems

Source: The King’s Fund Integrated Care Bulletin

The new report from King’s Fund considers the potential of place-based partnerships to improve population health and truly support integrated care, and highlights principles to guide their development and the support they might need from regional and national leaders.

For more information click here.

King’s Fund Event

What have we learnt from the Covid-19 pandemic?

This virtual conference, will take a look at how people working in health and care have been working remotely, flexibly and in an agile way to meet the demands created by the pandemic and to develop new and improved ways of working for the future.

Sessions take place over 4 half days between the 7-10 June 2021.

To find out more or book your tickets click here.