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The King's Fund reviews its expenditure from investments periodically to balance expected demand with future returns.
Trustees review the amount that they spend from investments periodically, balancing the expected demand for resources with the likelihood of future investment returns.
Financial · Procedural statement · From The King's Fund — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 32
The King's Fund does not invest in tobacco-related industries due to its commitment to improving health.
As a charity committed to improving health, we do not have any direct or indirect investments in the tobacco industry.
Financial · Policy statement · From The King's Fund — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 32
The King's Fund manages its reserves as a pooled investment to support long-term financial needs.
The expendable endowment, restricted funds and unrestricted reserves are managed as a pooled investment, with the intention of providing financial support today and for the foreseeable future.
Financial · Policy statement · From The King's Fund — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 32
The King's Fund will focus on embedding anti-racism training for another cohort of staff in 2025.
anti-racism training – sustainably rolling out anti-racism training for another cohort of staff in The King’s Fund
Operational · Commitment statement
The King's Fund aims to address slavery and colonialism through their published action plan.
Our equity, diversity and inclusion work programme is framed around four key thematic priorities. Some 2024 highlights within those themes are as follows.
Policy · Commitment statement · From The King's Fund — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 26
The King's Fund was ranked 79th in Stonewall’s Top 100 employers, a slight decline from their previous ranking.
In 2024 we were ranked 79 in Stonewall’s Top 100 employers, a small drop from our 75th position in 2023.
Metric · Observational claim · From The King's Fund — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 25
The King's Fund plans to refresh data collection through their internal HR system.
We are planning to do a refresh of our data collection through our internal human resources (HR) system.
Operational · Procedural statement · From The King's Fund — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 24
The King's Fund exceeded its targets for diversity in external representation, except for Black and ethnic minority representation at breakfast events.
We had two all-male panels in 2024 due to election-period restrictions and a late change in a small panel. The data shows that we exceeded our targets across the board regarding both gender and ethnicity, with the exception of Black and ethnic minority representation at our breakfast events.
Governance · Observational claim · From The King's Fund — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 23
The King's Fund plans to publish new research on place-based partnerships and their relationship with ICSs.
Specific commitments include: publishing new research on the role of place-based partnerships and their relationship with ICSs, supported by an online conference on place-based care
Research · Commitment statement · From The King's Fund — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 18
The King's Fund aims to influence the government’s health mission by focusing on prevention, technology use, and care closer to home.
A significant focus for The King’s Fund in 2025 will be to influence the design and implementation of the government’s health mission, which seeks to improve healthy life expectancy by placing greater emphasis on prevention, making better use of technology and delivering more care closer to home.
Strategic · Policy statement · From The King's Fund — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 17
The King's Fund published a report highlighting the need for greater involvement from DHSC to foster trust and collaboration.
In November, The King’s Fund published a report called NHS and life sciences industry partnerships: collaborating to improve care, highlighting the need for greater involvement from the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to foster trust and collaboration.
Policy · Observational claim · From The King's Fund — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 16
The King's Fund provided impartial analysis and insights during the 2024 general election period, engaging with political parties to influence health and care policies.
During the election period, The King’s Fund engaged with political parties, providing trusted feedback on their health and care policies.
Commissioning · Procedural statement · From The King's Fund — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 15
The King's Fund published a report on the role of digital technologies in enabling community-based models of care, highlighting current limitations.
We argued that while the promise is clear, low levels of investment and siloed approaches currently limit digitally enabled care in the community.
Service · Observational claim · From The King's Fund — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 11
The King's Fund published a report on integrated care systems (ICSs) that highlights the need for an environment conducive to their success.
Based on the findings of these projects, our message to national leaders was that ICSs may not achieve their full potential unless more is done to create an environment conducive to their success.
Service · Observational claim · From The King's Fund — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 10
The King's Fund evaluates its impact through various activities such as policy explanation, research, new thinking sharing, direct work with people, events, advice to leaders, and partnership building.
We are committed to evaluating and reporting on our impact. We use several levers to bring about change.
Operational · Procedural statement · From The King's Fund — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 9
The King's Fund’s strategic priorities include healthy places and communities, tackling the worst health outcomes, and supporting people and leaders.
Our current strategy identifies three strategic priorities that form the basis of our work programmes: • healthy places and communities • tackling the worst health outcomes • supporting people and leaders
Strategic · Policy statement · From The King's Fund — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 8
The King's Fund aims to influence the government’s health mission and contribute to the development of a royal commission on adult social care.
Over the course of 2025, we will also develop a work programme to inform the commission on adult social care, deliver a series of work on patient communications and administration, and publish the latest editions of our high-profile annual research
Commissioning · Commitment statement · From The King's Fund — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 4
The King's Fund will focus on prevention, technology and community-based care in the upcoming health mission.
Our work to build healthy places and communities will include efforts to ensure the prevention of illness is given far greater priority, and we will deliver specific projects on enhancing the health of children and young people. Our Tackling the worst health outcomes programme will focus on addressing health inequalities, particularly for groups at higher risk.
Service · Commitment statement · From The King's Fund — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 4
The King's Fund provided impartial analysis during the 2024 UK general election.
In 2024, The King’s Fund remained at the forefront of health and care in the United Kingdom, continuing to champion healthier places and communities, support people and leaders in the sector, work to tackle health inequalities and provide sharp and timely analysis to shape and inform national debate. Throughout the campaign period, the organisation engaged with political parties, offering trusted feedback on their proposals while maintaining a neutral stance.
Commissioning · Policy statement · From The King's Fund — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 December 2024, page 3
The charity had no related party transactions in the year ending March 2026.
There were no related party transactions for the year ended 31 March 2026.
Financial · Observational claim · From Pathways to Health — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2026, page 17