Community health staff play a crucial role, but their wellbeing often goes unnoticed. The King’s Fund highlights why better support is needed to help them continue their vital work.
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The King’s Fund: Social Care Review
The King’s Fund’s latest Social Care 360 report examines the state of adult social care in England, highlighting funding shortfalls, workforce shortages, and access challenges. While spending has risen, it hasn’t kept up with demand, leaving many without vital support. The report provides a crucial overview of where the system stands and what needs urgent attention.
Read more: Social Care 360 – The King’s Fund
Public Health and Population Health: Leading Together – The King’s Fund
This report, supported by The Health Foundation, examines the increased need for strong, effective leadership in public health and population health, and how the two remits can work cohesively together for the health of their populations. It offers key recommendations for national leaders, including the need for a clearer framework for population health and public health leaders to operate in, and a number of principles for local systems drawn from our findings from local good practice and wider insight.
Public Health And Population Health: Leading Together | The King’s Fund (kingsfund.org.uk)
Centre for Mental Health
Recent reports
More than the sum of our parts: an evaluation of local mental health alliances.
The voluntary sector plays a vital role in supporting people with mental health difficulties. Yet, insecure funding and a lack of meaningful collaboration can inhibit voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations from providing the mental health support that people depend on. This report explores how bringing together local stakeholders – including VCSE organisations, NHS commissioners and providers of health and social care, and experts by experience – can lead to more effective and equitable support for people living with a mental illness.
CentreforMH_MoreThanTheSumOfOurParts.pdf (centreformentalhealth.org.uk)
A dual crisis: the hidden link between poverty and children’s mental health
This report explores the impact of poverty and benefit conditionality on families’ mental health. Based on research with parents and children, and a review of the evidence, it finds that money and mental health are inextricably linked; not having enough money leads to parental stress and guilt, which has a knock-on impact on children over the course of their lives. And with rates of poverty twice as high among Asian and Black families than white families, some children are ‘overexposed’ to the dual risks of poverty and poor mental health.
Book Group
Bumper edition of Bertie’s Book Group newsletter
Source: The King’s Fund Library
This newsletter combines all the discussions from the November and December book group meetings and looks ahead to the books we’ll be reading in 2023.
Podcast
The cost of the living crisis
Source: The King’s Fund
Anna Charles speaks to Torsten Bell, Chief Executive of the Resolution Foundation, Helen Barnard, Associate Director at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Marie Gabriel CBE, Chair of North East London Integrated Care System and Cormac Russell, Founding Director of Nurture Development, to find out how the cost-of-living crisis is impacting the nation’s health and wellbeing and what the health and care system can do in response.
Listen here: The cost-of-living crisis: is the nation’s health paying the price? | The King’s Fund (kingsfund.org.uk)
Free Online Course
Leading well for staff health and wellbeing in the NHSLeading well for staff health and wellbeing in the NHS
Source: The King’s Fund
This free online three-week course will help you develop your understanding of your own health and wellbeing as well as help you to learn to better lead and support your colleagues, team and organisation.
To find out more click here.
King’s Fund Free Online Course
Leading well for staff health and wellbeing in the NHS
The Covid-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented pressures on the health and social care workforce and is now compounding longstanding inequalities and challenges among staff. The role of a manager and leader in protecting, supporting and promoting the health and wellbeing of staff has, therefore, never been more necessary and urgent.
In this free, online, three-week course from the King’s Fund you’ll develop your understanding of your own health and wellbeing and learn to better lead and support your colleagues, team and organisation.
Click here to sign up for free.
King’s Fund Podcast
What are the health and care challenges for the next Prime Minister?
What are the immediate health and care pressures the next Prime Minister will need to address once they’re in post? Join host, Jo Vigor, and a panel of colleagues from The King’s Fund: policy adviser, Charlotte Wickens, Head of Policy, Sally Warren and Senior Policy Fellow, Simon Bottery as they discuss the impact this may have on health and social care.
To listen click on the image below.
Library Newsletter
September 2022
Take a look at our September newsletter featuring our resource of the month – The King’s Fund, details of our next lunch and learn session and our coffee morning later this month. We hope you enjoy reading this newsletter and as always value any feedback you may have. Please get in touch should you require any more support or advice from the Library Team.
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