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Chris Hopson, Chief Executive, Foundation Trust Network, shared his optimism for closer integrated health and social care spending, but highlighted trust-wide concerns about the impact that funding cuts are having alongside extra demand on other social services and third sector organisations that provide crucial support – and the knock on effect this is having on the NHS. In order to ensure invest...

Angela Camber, patient representative, British Heart Foundation Council, gives a personal account of her experiences of care and makes a plea for systems to be joined-up to empower patients and put them right at the centre.

Dr Caz Sayer, Chair of Camden Clinical Commissioning Group, spoke at our NHS financial pressures press breakfast event. Caz discussed The King's Fund's new NHS productivity report from a clinician's point of view, stressing that the financial challenges being faced by the system are intrinsically linked to the quality of care and patient safety.

Harry Cayton OBE, Chief Executive of the Professional Standards Authority, gives the keynote address at our event, one year on from the Francis Inquiry report. Harry gives his assessment on what he describes as the 'patchy' progress being made on what he thinks were the four key elements of the Francis Inquiry report: transparency, accountability, patient-centredness and culture change. Harry also...

Brandon Lewis MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, explains how the Better Care Fund will support health and social care services to work more closely together in local areas. To make real and meaningful progress towards integrated care in 2014, Brandon highlights local leadership as absolutely critical, with health and wellbeing boards playing a vital r...

At our Better Care Fund learning event, Norman Lamb MP, Minister for Care Services, shared his vision for integrated care. He highlighted the shifts that need to happen to achieve better care: including moving from a fragmented paternalistic system to one which is joined-up and shaped around the needs of the patient, and having richer collaboration between health and care services and the wider co...

Matthew Kershaw, former Trust Special Administrator, South London Healthcare NHS Trust, shared his experience of how the challenge of making £350 million of savings was tackled in South London at our recent press breakfast event. He said that to create a clinically and financially sustainable solution in South London, the trust needed to engage with all organisations, commissioners and providers a...

David Flory CBE, Chief Executive, NHS Trust Development Authority, spoke about financial pressures at our recent press breakfast event. He said it is important not to lose sight of the core purpose that needs to be delivered, namely to provide high-quality, safe services in a very efficient way. Necessary to do this, he says, is a strong relationship with all partners in the system, in particular...

Candace Imison, Acting Director of Policy at The King's Fund, talks about the financial challenges facing NHS trusts. Candace looks at what drives failure as too often, she says, solutions are leapt to without consideration of why failure occurred in the first place. She also discusses the options for addressing failure, including past remedies which have not worked and the NHS failure regime.

Dominic Harrison, Director of Public Health for Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council, looks at the different roles that local authorities, individuals and other health services play in improving health. Dominic says that health services only play a small part in the health of the population and shares how an initiative underway in Blackburn with Darwen - which offers free leisure services to peop...

Dean Royles, Chief Executive of NHS Employers, highlights the importance of changing the current NHS culture which has a predominance of men in leadership roles and a gender imbalance at board level that will take 70 years to redress if current trends prevail.

Hiro Tanaka, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Aneurin Bevan Local Health Board, shares three personal stories which illustrate the important ingredients needed to transform patient care and experience.

Harry Cayton, Chief Executive of the Professional Standards Authority, spoke at our conference, Patient voice and power in the new NHS. Harry introduced seven different types of leader and stressed the importance of patient leaders finding these characteristics in themselves to drive change in the NHS.

David Gilbert, Co-director of the Centre for Patient Leadership, spoke at our conference, Patient voice and power in the new NHS. David explains why he feels we must move towards a model of patient-influenced change and away from the current model of 'them and us' that exists between professionals and patients.

Dr Marc Bush, Director of Policy and Intelligence at Healthwatch England, spoke at The King's Fund conference, Patient voice and power in the new NHS. Exploring the role of Healthwatch England, Marc explained the importance of involving patients in their own care and the design of services in their own areas. He highlighted how statistics and people's anecdotal evidence don't always tally up, and...

Dominic Makuvachuma Walker, a patient interested in improving mental health care, spoke at our conference, Patient voice and power in the new NHS. Dominic gave an empassioned speech to encourage the audience to involve patients in the delivery and strategy of mental health care, explaining that the emotional support he received from his peers had a huge effect on his own recovery in the 1990s.

Jeremy Hughes, Chief Executive at the Alzheimer's Society, gives six reasons for why engaging with the third sector is vital in delivering co-ordinated care.

Mike Bewick gives his response to The King's Fund's review of the Canterbury health care system in New Zealand. The review looks at how the Canterbury District Health Board has successfully implemented an integrated care system over the past few years.

Catherine Davies, Executive Director of Co-operation and Competition at Monitor, spoke at our event on whether competition will be a help or a hindrance. She explained the role that Monitor will play in service reconfiguration and economic and quality regulation.

Chris Hopson, Chief Executive of the Foundation Trust Network, spoke at our event on whether competition will be a help or a hindrance. Giving his view from the front line, he argued for the separation of choice and competition, and suggested that competition was a block to innovation in health care.

Michael Dixon, Chair of the NHS Alliance, talks about the value of volunteering and it's importance for the sustainability of the NHS.

Chris Naylor, Fellow in Health Policy at The King's Fund, discusses the scale, scope and value of volunteering in the health service. He also considers what the future holds for volunteering in the context of recent changes in the health system.

Alyson McGregor, Director of Altogether Better, explains the concept of community health champions.

Professor Marcus Longley, Director of the Welsh Institute for Health and Social Care at the University of South Wales, provides the context for integration in Wales. The country has only recently moved to an integrated system, and early challenges include funding, accountability, building trust and breaking down barriers, leadership and dealing with different stakeholder’s expectations.

Dr David Steel OBE, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen, gives the background to integrated care in Scotland - which has had an integrated health and social care system since 2003. His three key lessons for England are to develop a coherent policy landscape, have organisational stability and consistent leadership, and make a commitment to collaboration.