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Professor Deirdre Heenan, Pro Vice Chancellor (Communication) and Provost (Colraine and Magee) at the University of Ulster, explains how Northern Ireland’s integrated health and social care system works - what structural integration means, what the benefits are and how the current system can be improved.

Chris Ham, Chief Executive of The King's Fund, introduces the key findings of our report on health care leadership in London. He explains why health services in the capital are in urgent need of change and suggests what the alternatives to further structural reconfiguration might be.

Dr Anne Rainsberry shares her experience of leading service change at NHS North West London, and reflects on her new role as NHS England’s Regional Director (London).

David Fish, Managing Director at UCL Partners, explains how academic health science partnerships use research and innovation to improve patient and population health. He looks at examples of cancer and cardiac service reconfiguration to explore how services can be changed and improved.

Clayton Christensen, Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, explains how we can use disruptive innovation to make health care more affordable and accessible. Key to this is bringing technology to clinics, doctor's offices and patient's homes, then driving the technology to become more sophisticated.

Dr Richard Barker OBE, Director of CASMI, shares his thoughts on the barriers and solutions to achieving greater innovation in the NHS. He emphasis that, as economic pressures build, innovation must be seen as the source of solutions, but financial short-sightedness, vested interests and cultural resistance are enormous barriers to this.

Kate Barker explains more about the Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England, including her role as Chair, the questions the Commission is seeking to answer and why now is the time to reconsider the boundaries of health and social care.

Catherine Foot speaks to Nick Timmins about his new paper on the four UK health systems. Nick discusses the similarities and differences between the health systems in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, and the difficulties in comparing and contrasting the impacts of each system.

Dr Havi Carel, Patient and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of the West of England, and author of the book "Illness", discusses how patients can help support quality improvement in the health and care system.

Norman Lamb MP, Minister for Care Services, spoke at The King's Fund Integrated care summit in May 2013. He spoke of his desire to see a fully integrated system of health and social care in England, which would help us to deal with the growing demand on care from older people. He suggested that the old health and social care systems could no longer withstand the challenges of today, and that an in...

Nigel Edwards, Senior Fellow at The King’s Fund, discusses the issues around redesigning services and looks at whether this reconfiguration leads to a more convenient and cost-effective services for patients.

What is the future of the district general hospital? Dr Mark Newbold draws on his experience as Chief Executive of Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust to discuss.

James Reilly, Chief Executive of Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust, looks at how primary and community services need to change to deliver care closer to home.

Catherine Swann, Associate Director at the Centre of Public Health Excellence, NICE, discusses NICE's forthcoming public health guidance and the key challenges in tackling complex and multiple behaviours in the population.

Janet Atherton, President, Association of Directors of Public Health, shares how the Metropolitan Borough of Merseyside has narrowed the gap in life expectancies by targeting the areas that are most at risk of multiple unhealthy behaviours.

Mark Britnell, Chairman of KPMG's Global Health Practice, draws on examples of health care spending in other countries, including the Netherlands, Canada, Singapore and Japan, to look at how we can pay for the next 50 years of care.

Don Redding, Director of Policy, National Voices, introduces the work the charity is doing on integrated care and the role of the narrative. Commissioned by the NHS Commissioning Board, National Voices will be representing the perspective of patients, carers and other service users.

Elizabeth Fradd, explores the importance of language and communication in delivering high-quality, patient-centred health care. She focuses on her experience as a health care professional, investigator and an observer, giving a personal account of her mother's treatment.

Heather Rabbatts CBE, Independent Non-Executive Director at The FA, and former Deputy Chair at Millwall Football Club, draws on her past experiences to look at the role of the non-executive director.

Leslee Thompson and Anndale McTavish share how the team at Kingston General Hospital have worked in partnership with patients and families to achieve massive organisational change.

While public health measurements, including rates of alcohol consumption, smoking and obesity, are improving, David Buck explains that the health inequalities between population groups are widening. The reduction of these inequalities should be a priority for health and social care in the future. www.kingsfund.org.uk/think

In his first speech as Minister for Care Services, Norman Lamb MP discusses the importance of building an integrated system of care and how health and wellbeing boards can help to achieve this.

Jeremy Taylor, Chief Executive, National Voices, responds to The King's Fund new report, Transforming the delivery of health and social care: the case for fundamental change.

Ruth Poole, Group Clinical Director, Healthcare at Home Ltd, responds to The King's Fund new report, Transforming the delivery of health and social care: the case for fundamental change.

David Dalton responds to The King's Fund new report, Transforming the delivery of health and social care: the case for fundamental change.