King's Fund
{{Short description|Organization involved with the health system in England}}
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The King's Fund is an independent think tank, which is involved with work relating to the health system in England. It organises conferences{{cite web | url=http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/MediaCentre/Speeches/DH_126929 | title=The King's Fund Leadership Conference | publisher=Department of Health, UK | date=18 May 2011 | access-date=4 July 2011}} and other events.{{cite web|url=http://www.kingsfund.tv/futureforum/index.htm |title=NHS Future Forum |publisher=The King's Fund, UK |date=13 June 2011 |access-date=4 July 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710035342/http://www.kingsfund.tv/futureforum/index.htm |archive-date=10 July 2011 }}
Since 1997, they have jointly funded a yearly award system with GlaxoSmithKline. They reward small to medium-sized health charities who are improving people's health.{{cite web |url=http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/sites/files/kf/media/gsk-impact-awards-guidelines-2014.pdf | title=2014 GSK IMPACT Awards in partnership with The King's Fund| publisher=The King's Fund, UK |year=2014 | access-date=13 December 2013 }}
The Chief Executive is currently Sarah Woolnough, who was previously the Chief Executive of Asthma + Lung UK.{{cite web |title=Sarah Woolnough |url=https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/about-us/whos-who/sarah-woolnough |website=The King's Fund |language=en}} She took up the position in December 2023.
Before 1948 the body contributed significantly to London's voluntary hospitals.
History
Founded as the Prince of Wales's Hospital Fund for London in 1897,"The Prince of Wales's Hospital Fund For London", The Times, 6 February 1897, p. 10 the fund changed its name in 1902 to King Edward's Hospital Fund after the accession to the throne of King Edward VII.{{cite web |url=http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/about-us/our-history | title=About us: Our history | publisher=The King's Fund, UK | access-date=13 December 2014}} In 1907, Parliament incorporated the fund as the King's Fund.
George Stephen, 1st Baron Mount Stephen worked closely with the future George V in building the charity's endowment fund. Lord Mount Stephen was the charity's most important benefactor, having made gifts to the amount of £1,315,000.[http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=8375 Lord Mount Stephen's entry in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography]
The fund was originally set up to contribute to London's voluntary hospitals and did so, which it later started to inspect and expand. After the NHS was created in 1948, the fund became a think tank. In 1992 the influential King's Fund's Commission on London's Health Care identified high costs and lower throughput of central London hospitals and recommended reduction in acute services and parallel improvements in primary care.{{Cite journal|url=https://archive.kingsfund.org.uk/concern/published_works/000007229?locale=zh|title = Medical advances : The future shape of acute services|journal = The King's Fund Digital Archive|last1 = Barbara|first1 = Stocking}}
See also
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External links
{{Commons category|The King's Fund}}
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Category:Organizations established in 1897
Category:Health charities in the United Kingdom
Category:Public policy think tanks based in the United Kingdom