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King's Fund

Organization involved with the health system in England

Summary

Organization involved with the health system in England

Field	Value
logo	File:The King's Fund logo.jpg
purpose	Public health think tank
headquarters	London
leader_title	Chief Executive
leader_name	Sarah Woolnough
name	The King's Fund
region_served	England
website

Model of a hospital promoting the King Edward's Hospital Fund, 1932. Wellcome Trust, London.

The King's Fund staff at the School of Advanced Study History Day, November 2019.

The King's Fund is a think tank, which is involved with work relating to the health and social care system in England. It produces research and analysis, offers leadership and organisational development support, and organises events.

The Chief Executive is currently Sarah Woolnough, who was previously the Chief Executive of Asthma + Lung UK. She took up the position in December 2023.

History

Founded as the Prince of Wales's Hospital Fund for London in 1897, the fund changed its name in 1902 to King Edward's Hospital Fund after the accession to the throne of King Edward VII. 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.

The fund was originally set up to contribute to London's voluntary hospitals and did so, which it later started to inspect and expand.

Think tank

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.

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.

References

"Sarah Woolnough".
"The Prince of Wales's Hospital Fund For London", ''The Times'', 6 February 1897, p. 10
"About us: Our history". The King's Fund, UK.
[http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=8375 Lord Mount Stephen's entry in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography]
"Medical advances : The future shape of acute services". The King's Fund Digital Archive.
(2014). "2014 GSK IMPACT Awards in partnership with The King's Fund". The King's Fund, UK.

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