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Dr Rachael Addicott, Senior Research Fellow at The King's Fund, speaks on NHS staff views on employee ownership and engagement at the 'Creating employee-owned organisations in the NHS: engaging and empowering NHS staff' conference at The King's Fund.

Morag Oldfield, Research and Practice Development Midwife, North Middlesex Hospital, talks about the challenges facing maternity teams and how her team has worked with The King's Fund to increase safety in the labour ward

On 4 November 2009, The King’s Fund hosted a debate on whether health and social care integration could be one way of helping the system cope with rising demand, demographic change and significant funding restraint. David Behan, the senior civil servant responsible for social care in England, unveiled four new key work strands that they are pursuing to move forward integration of health and social...

Ali Parsa, Company Director at Circle, a private health care company, speaks at the 'Creating employee-owned organisations in the NHS: engaging and empowering NHS staff conference' at The King's Fund.

Andy Burnham MP, the Secretary of State for Health, joined us for the last of our three general election breakfast debates, and discussed his party's vision for the NHS. He was joined on the panel by Richard Vize, editor of Health Service Journal and Dan Wellings, Director of Public Health Research at Ipsos MORI, with the event chaired by Professor Chris Ham, Chief Executive of The King's Fund.

Anne Milton MP, Lindsey Davies, Anna Dixon and Julian Le Grand took part in a panel debate on public health, with questions posed from the audience. For more go to: http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/events/past_events_catch_up/public_health_a_new.html

Anna Dixon, Head of Policy, talks about public health in relation to the NHS White Paper. For more go to: http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/events/past_events_catch_up/public_health_a_new.html

Lindsey Davies, President of the Faculty of Public Health, discusses what is needed to improve the state of public health in England. For more go to: http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/events/past_events_catch_up/public_health_a_new.html#tab_2

Anne Milton MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department of Health), lays out the government's future plans for public health. For more information go to: http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/events/past_events_catch_up/public_health_a_new.html#tab_2

Tania Browes, Midwifery Manager for Community Services, Ipswich Hospital, talks about the lessons she and her team have learnt from the Safer Births programme.

Anna Walker, chair of the Office of Rail Regulation Board, draws on her experience of the competition regime in the utilities sector to discuss what choice and competition can offer the NHS.

Dr Anna Dixon explains Monitor's new responsibilites and looks at the challenges it faces in regulating the NHS. While there are some clear advantages for having a specialist regulator of health, there are also a number of factors that will make Monitor's role very complicated. This interview draws on our publication on regulation, Economic regulation in health care: What can we learn from other r...

In our exclusive interview, Dr Hugh Griffiths, Acting National Clinical Director for Mental Health, Department of Health, outlines the key themes of the government’s mental health strategy for England and looks at how outcomes for people with physical and mental health conditions can be improved. For more information go to: http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/multimedia/hugh_interview.html

Dr Anna Dixon, Director of Policy at The King's Fund, responds to Sonia Brown's presentation on economic and competition regulation, and considers how we could achieve competition and integration in a reformed NHS.

Imelda Redmond OBE, former Chief Executive of Carers UK, discusses what it's like to be a carer and what opportunities need to be grasped to ensure services are modernised sufficiently in the future.

Marianne Talbot gives a personal and moving account of the challenges she faced while caring for her mother. This audio was recorded for The King's Fund Point of Care programme.

Sonia Brown, Chief Economist at Monitor, discusses how economic and competition regulation can promote integration of services, plus the core role Monitor will have around integrated care and where it can add value as a regulator. Find out more: http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/multimedia/sonia_brown.html

Sally Brearley, discusses the relationship between patients, information and choice at The King's Fund NHS Information Revolution conference 2011. Drawing on examples from other industries, the Visiting Senior Research Fellow in public and patient involvement from King's College London, sets out to prove that offering a limited choice and information can result in more patients becoming involved i...

Ros Altmann, Lord Warner, Shaun Gallagher and Nick Starling give their response to the findings of the Commission on Funding of Care and Support. Nick Starling, Director, General Insurance and Health, Association of British Insurers, discusses what would stimulate the finance sector to create new care products.

Ros Altmann, Lord Warner, Shaun Gallagher and Nick Starling give their response to the findings of the Commission on Funding of Care and Support. Shaun Gallagher, Director of Social Care Policy, Department of Health, looks at what areas within the extending social care spend could be looked at to make improvements.

Ros Altmann, Lord Warner, Shaun Gallagher and Nick Starling give their response to the findings of the Commission on Funding of Care and Support. Lord Norman Warner, Commissioner and former Minister for Health, puts forward the next steps that need to be taken following Dilnot's recommendations.

Ros Altmann, Lord Warner, Shaun Gallagher and Nick Starling give their response to the findings of the Commission on Funding of Care and Support. Dr Ros Altmann, Director-General, Saga, outlines some of the urgent problems currently facing the social care system.

Mike Farrar, Chief Executive, NHS Confederation, looks at how the NHS can meet the Nicholson Challenge to deliver £20 billion in productivity improvements.

Peter Hay, Emily Thornberry, Cynthia Bower, Allan Bowman and Peter Beresford tell us what they think about the Law Commission adult social care framework recommendations. Professor Peter Beresford, Director, Centre for Citizen Participation, Brunel University, outlines the fundamental barriers to taking forward personalised support. Find out more at: http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/multimedia/law_comm...

Peter Hay, Emily Thornberry, Cynthia Bower, Allan Bowman and Peter Beresford tell us what they think about the Law Commission adult social care framework recommendations. Cynthia Bower, Chief Executive of the Care Quality Commission, looks at what care providers can do to help improve the social care system. Find out more at: http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/multimedia/law_commission_recs.html