King's Health Partners joins our 'Global Science Cities' forum this autumn

Image: Joseph Casey, courtesy King's Health Partners

Future Cities Forum is delighted that Joseph Casey, Director of Partnerships and Programmes for King’s Health Partners, will be joining our 'Global Science Cities' discussion event this September.

KHP, which is one of the UK's eight Academic Health Sciences Centres, is developing a long-term estate masterplan, as a collaboration between King's College London and three of the UK's leading NHS Foundation Trusts - Guy's and St Thomas', Kings' College Hospital and South London and Maudsley.

According to NHS England:

'The AHSCs are regional partnerships bringing together expertise from universities and NHS organisations. Working with local partners including local authorities and industry, they improve health and care services by translating early scientific research and discoveries into benefits for individual patients and local and national populations.

'The AHSCs work closely with each other, Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) and the NIHR infrastructure to drive research and innovation forward. They contribute to the delivery of national strategies, such as the NHS Long Term Plan, the Life Sciences Industrial Strategy and the priorities of the Accelerated Access Collaborative.

Joseph is supporting the development of King's Clinical Academic Groups, and leads its programme work on value based healthcare and informatics. 

The Health Hub at King's Health Partners is grounded in the growing intersection of informatics and health. It works on important health informatics topics such as digital health interventions for physical and mental health, assistive and accessible technologies, algorithmic diagnostics and modelling of complex medical data. Within this, the hub also looks at the privacy, and security concerns surround digital health interventions. Its multidisciplinary activities not only connect academic groups within the Department of Informatics, but also links Informatics to multiple Departments, Divisions and Health Partners across the College. The overall objective of the Health Hub is to advance our fundamental understanding of technology-enabled health and its capabilities. 

Prior to joining, Joseph worked in management consultancy, initially with private sector clients before focusing on supporting NHS organisations and delivering training in central government departments. Joseph started his career in Brussels in social policy research.

As an Academic Health Sciences Centre King's Health Partners is bringing research, education and clinical practice together across three NHS Foundation Trusts, Guy’s and St Thomas’, King’s College Hospital and South London and Maudsley with a world-leading university, King’s College London. 

King’s College London is the largest centre for healthcare education in Europe (with more applications per place in medicine than any other) and provides education and research in the widest range of subjects allied to medicine of any London institution.  The three NHS founders; Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts, serve a local population which is among the most ethnically, socially and economically diverse in the world. Together they provide a full range of medical and healthcare services, from acute and specialist medical care, local and highly specialised mental healthcare, and services that promote physical and psychological wellbeing. 

King's Health Partners says:

'Our core team coordinates and supports activity right across our partnership. We work closely with colleagues in our partner organisations to drive delivery of our shared mission. 

'We improve health and care services by translating early scientific research, discoveries and ideas to benefit patients and our communities. We connect people and programmes across our partnership and train and develop future generations of healthcare professionals.  

'We are building on our five-year strategy, accelerating progress in three ambitious, connected priorities: 

• Personalised Health;  

• Digital Health and Data Sciences; 

• Population Health. 

'We take a mind and body approach, integrating mental and physical health across everything we do, including addressing the inequalities in health outcomes experienced by people with mental illness.  

'We are committed to focusing our energy in these areas, driving change through clinical academic collaboration, and improving health outcomes through sustainable system partnerships. 

Joseph Casey will be contributing alongside Nick Kirby, Managing Director at the Cambridge Biomedical Campus for the September event in The Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart and Lung Research Institute (VPD-HLRI) which opened in July 2022.

The Institute is a joint venture between Cambridge University and Royal Papworth Hospital and represents a major expansion of cardiovascular and respiratory research capacity.

The Cambridge Biomedical Campus (CBC) is located at the heart of the UK’s and Europe’s leading life sciences cluster. It is a vibrant, international healthcare community and a global leader in medical science, research, education and patient care.

By locating world-leading academic and industry scientists on the same site as the teaching hospitals of the University of Cambridge, it believes it is creating the optimum environment for the rapid and effective translation of research into routine clinical practice, succeeding because of the strength of its ecosystem which allows ideas to develop and flourish as well as the physical space to accommodate new and expanding companies and the international connections to be the global hub for content and research.

The principles underpinning the campus are collaboration and sharing. It states that it wants to foster an environment where individual organisations both contribute to, as well as gain from the success of others on site and where like-minded people work in partnership, committed to realising a shared ambition of improving patient care and outcomes – through the discovery, commercialisation and adoption of innovative new products and services into healthcare practice.

Future Cities Forum will address three main themes at the September event, looking at how the UK can continue to compete as a ‘science super-power’ on the world stage, and the role of collaboration :

• How do we create the best places for R&D collaboration - for universities, health trusts and the private sector?

• How do we deliver high quality housing  and social / cultural amenities in our leading science clusters – and for key workers?

• How do we speed up the creation of sustainable infrastructure, especially for power, water and other utilities?