Innovation project launched by The King’s Fund with a call-to-action to get involved
The King’s Fund – with support from Roche – has launched a project entitled ‘Leveraging Innovation to Support Care Closer to Home’.
The project will run for two-and-a-half-years and will aim to identify and examine different innovations that reduce reliance on hospital-based care and improve patient outcomes and experiences. The project will consider innovations across three areas:
- Treatments
- Diagnostics and monitoring
- New models of care delivery
‘Leveraging Innovation to Support Care Closer to Home’ will be structured in three phases with outputs including resources, toolkits and engagement events.
The King’s Fund say:
“Through this programme we want to explore how the focus of innovation efforts could be centred more deliberately around accelerating the shift towards care closer to home. We aim to understand what it would take to make this happen, including the practical steps, system changes and cultural shifts required to embed innovation in primary and community care settings. Ultimately, our goal is to help ensure that innovations work for patients and communities – improving outcomes, experiences and equity, while supporting a sustainable health and care system.”
Contributions to the first phase of this project – Understanding innovations and how they’re implemented – are welcome from those with professional or personal experiences. The project team are particularly interested in:
- Innovations that shift activity from outpatient or inpatient settings into community or home environments
- Approaches that simplify patient pathways and reduce time spent in hospital
- Tools that support earlier diagnosis or proactive monitoring of long-term conditions in community settings
- Models that strengthen multi-disciplinary care across neighbourhoods
- Approaches that embed equity and are designed to reach underserved communities.
You can find out more and contact the project team here: https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/projects/leveraging-innovation-support-care-closer-home