King’s Health Partners launches vision of reimagined health and care system
Our new strategy to 2030, which launched on Monday (16 June), sets out how the partnership will pioneer better health for all, together, and make a tangible difference to our communities.
Founded in 2009, King’s Health Partners (KHP) is a partnership of three major London NHS Foundation Trusts - Guy’s and St Thomas’, King’s College Hospital, and South London and Maudsley - and world-leading university, King’s College London.
The strategy explains how KHP will continue to work together to be much more than the sum of our parts and strive to transform lives in south east London and beyond.
KHP will connect our partners, build capacity in people through education and training, and create opportunities for innovation in research, education, and care. No individual partner can do it alone.
To achieve system transformation by 2030, KHP is committed to leverage our collective strengths in three priority areas:
- delivering personalised health – tailored to individuals' unique characteristics and needs across prevention, diagnosis, and treatment;
- accelerating digital health – bridging the gap between the translation of digital health and data technologies into clinical and commercial impact; and
- improving population health – deepening the understanding of our population’s needs, generating evidence for how to achieve more accessible and equitable care.
The strategy is underpinned by KHP’s unique mind and body approach – integrating mental and physical health into everything we do. This along with the co-creation with patients and communities, and equity, diversity, and inclusion, are the golden threads that run through the strategy.
David Bradley, Chief Executive of South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, says:
King’s Health Partners’ new strategy emphasises how by joining efforts we can lead the future of health care, for the benefits of services users, staff and communities in London and beyond.
At a time of national level changes and increased pressures on the front line, it is even more important to work together in partnership and challenge ourselves to think strategically so I’m pleased to see our joint ambition to bring research, education and clinical practice closely together renewed for the next five years. Our Trust is fully committed to supporting KHP’s world leading programmes – such as Mind and Body which drives the integration of mental and physical healthcare.
Prof Graham Lord, Executive Director of KHP, says:
Our strategy to 2030 sets out our bold vision of a reimagined health and care system that truly meets the needs of patients, healthcare professionals, and communities.
For this to become a reality, clinical academic partnerships are critically important.
This frontier shift – powered by partnership – will provide patients with timely access to integrated healthcare, equitable health outcomes, and greater workforce and financial stability in the face of increasing demands and overwhelming financial pressures. We are stronger and can do more for people’s health, together.
