Collaborative Masterclass: Making Care Closer to Home a Reality
The health and care system in England must shift its focus away from hospital care to primary and community services if it is to be effective and sustainable.
- Despite successive governments repeating a vision of health and care services focused on communities rather than hospitals, that vision is very far from being achieved.
- Kings Fund researchers explored the underlying factors that have prevented change, and what might need to be done to achieve the vision; they analysed published evidence and national datasets, and interviewed stakeholders across the health and care system and found that to achieve the vision, political and other national leaders will need to completely shift their focus away from hospitals towards primary and community health and care – and all policies and strategies must align to that focus.
By doing this, we can help free up every sector to provide the care that it is best equipped to deliver.
Beccy Baird and colleagues will join us to share their work and finding, supported by some local examples where this culture shift is already happening.
Aims/ Objectives
- Understand why the focus of the system needs to shift to primary and community services.
- Explore what is needed to help make this shift and how organisations can equip their workforce to help deliver the vision.
- Understand the underlying factors that have prevented change, and what might need to be done to break down these barriers.
Speakers:
Beccy Baird, Senior fellow, Policy, kings Fund
Beccy works in the health policy team, leading research and analysis across a range of health care issues with a focus on general practice. She has worked in the NHS and social care for more than 25 years, and before joining the Fund was associate director for service improvement in a cancer network. She spent two years in San Mateo County, California, developing a model of integrated health and social care funding and delivery for older people. She began her career as a researcher in older people and mental health services.
She has an MSc in health systems management from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Beccy is a qualified coach practitioner, accredited with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council.
