Our strategy to 2030

In 2007, I was admitted via ambulance to St Thomas’ Hospital with what turned out to be multiple pulmonary embolisms. I was diagnosed with a condition called antiphospholipid syndrome - one of many types of blood clotting conditions.

After several weeks of care under the superb team at St Thomas', I wanted to learn more about the condition and the impact it would have on my life.

One of the things that I learned was that it was a condition observed, identified, and analysed by an academic clinician and his team who would go on to pioneer some of the treatment protocols that, nearly 20 years later, keep me alive today.

Clinical academic partnership has been key in so much of medicine today, including treatments for Parkinson’s, diabetes, and the development of one of the key vaccines for COVID-19. Clinical academic partnerships will be instrumental in much more to come.

I was born at Guy’s Hospital and have lived most of my life in Southwark, Lambeth, and Lewisham, benefitting from the outstanding care that hospital partners have provided me with over the years.

I sit as a patient representative on the King’s Health Partners (KHP) Haematology Programme Board and have had the opportunity to join other patients in contributing to the strategic direction set out in this document.

Being a patient representative was my way to give back to the NHS and my community by contributing to ensuring that the progress and improvements that the NHS needs includes the voices of patients.

Through clinical academic partnerships like that of King's Health Partners, I know we can continue to work together to learn, improve patient experiences of care, and address the health inequalities that too many in my community face.

The core principles of mind and body, equity, diversity, and inclusion, and co-creation between clinicians and patients illustrate a commitment to patient-centred care. It provides us all with the opportunity to contribute to building the NHS that we need. 

I’m looking forward to being a part of bringing this strategy to life, hand in hand with the clinicians and academics who have already contributed so much to my life.

Healthcare is at a turning point. We are standing on the threshold of a future where care is better, smarter, and built around the unique needs of those it serves. Our Strategy to 2030 sets out our bold vision for a reimagined health and care system - informed by people, education, research, and innovation, that truly meets the needs of patients, healthcare professionals, and communities alike.

This frontier shift will provide patients with timely access to integrated healthcare, equitable health outcomes, and greater workforce and financial stability in the face of stretched resources, increasing demands, and overwhelming financial pressures.

For this to become a reality, clinical academic partnerships are critically important. Because we are stronger and can do more, together.

Our strategy wasn’t created in isolation. It was developed through meaningful engagement with over 1,000 people, including patients, frontline staff, researchers, and members of our wider community. We listened, learned, and shaped ambitions that reflect the real-world needs and aspirations of the people we are here to serve.

We recognise the challenges ahead. A structural and cultural overhaul of our health and care system is urgently needed. But as the famous scientist Ernest Rutherford once said, “We haven't got the money, so we'll have to think.” Research, education, and innovation will be our driving forces towards transformational change. By integrating expertise from universities, healthcare providers, industry, and our communities, we will maximise efficiency, improve patient outcomes, and ensure cutting-edge research directly benefits those who need it most.

Our new impact framework reflects our impact goals for the patients and communities we serve, the staff and students across our partners, and the impact we seek for the economy – clearly setting out our ambitions to 2030.

With this strategy, we affirm our role at King's Health Partners as a connector of people, capacity-builder, and creator of opportunity – sparking and strengthening collaborations between partners and the wider system.

Thank you to every partner, funder, collaborator, and friend of King's Health Partners. We cannot achieve what we achieve without each and every one of you. Together, we will pioneer better health for all.

We invite you to explore our strategy, engage with its vision, and join us in reimagining our health and care system to 2030 and beyond.

• Artificial intelligence (AI) and innovations in healthcare are advancing at an unprecedented pace, from revolutionary medical imaging to wearable technologies. 
• Advances in personalised medicine, such as the development of genetic testing, have transformed how patients are diagnosed, treated, and in some cases, cured.

• The proportion of global deaths caused by more than one chronic condition is expected to rise from 59% in 2002 to 69%.
• At least a third of people with one or more chronic conditions are likely to also experience mental health challenges, impacting both physical and mental health outcomes.
• The health and care workforce will not be able to meet demand. The World Health Organisation (WHO) projects a deficit of 10 million health, care, and social workers.

• The UK has a global reputation for research in biomedical science.
• The UK has made a greater contribution to global biomedical knowledge than most other countries. 
• The UK is a powerhouse in health and life sciences education, with a number of universities ranked in the global top 20.
• The COVID-19 pandemic and growing financial insecurity have widened health gaps in London, particularly for those on a lower income.
• Mental health disorders, such as depression, are the leading cause of years living with disability in most south east London boroughs.

• The UK government has identified three fundamental shifts essential for transforming the NHS: from hospital to community-based care, analogue to digital, and sickness to prevention.
• Developing the workforce and improving sustainability and operational efficiencies are critical for building an NHS fit for the future
• Clinical research staff numbers are on the decline.

Our area

• Our partners serve one of the most diverse local populations in the UK; 
• 150 languages are spoken in Lambeth alone;
• Together, partners achieve approximately 4.2 million patient contacts per year. 

Training and research

• We train over 20 different healthcare professions: the nurses, midwives, allied health professionals, doctors, dentists, and scientists of the future;
• 1st in world for nursing, 4th for dentistry and 11th for life sciences & medicine (QS world rankings 2025);
• 6th University in the UK (THE World University Ranking 2025);
• 1st in the world for allied health & pharmacy (UK REF 2021);
• 6th University in the UK for social science degrees (THE World University Ranking 2025); 
• 4th in the world for the number of neuroscience publications in the top 5% of citations (SciVal); 
• Over 800 registered healthcare professionals are enrolled in doctoral research (PhD) degrees at King's College London;
• We host 187 National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) training awards across King's Health Partners;
• Alumni from NIHR Integrated Academic Training (IAT) programme have co-authored >14,200 peer-reviewed articles since 2006 and attracted research awards of >£288m; 
• Over 85% of graduates remain research active after their academic training role.

Our infrastructure

• The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) is a leading centre for mental health and neuroscience research in Europe. It produces more highly cited outputs (top 1% citations) on psychiatry and mental health than any other centre;
• Our partners are amongst the largest providers of heart and lung expertise, with the second number of highest cited publications globally;
• The London Institute for Healthcare Engineering is a one-of-a-kind MedTech innovation ecosystem, based in south east London;
• The Pears Maudsley Centre for Children and Young People brings together the UK’s largest NHS provider of specialist children’s mental health services with the leading child and adolescent mental health research team in Europe.

2009 - King’s Health Partners is established as one of the first Academic Health Sciences Centres in the UK.

2010 - KHP Honorary Passport is launched, enabling seamless cross-site working.

2011 - The Education Council is formed to develop KHP Education, co-ordinating education and training across the partnership.

2012 - Launch of Integrating Mental and Physical healthcare: Research Training and Services (IMPARTS) which assessed patients’ mental health when accessing acute trust services. 145,000 screens take place over 12 years.

2013 - Joint Clinical Trials Office is launched to increase the quality and delivery of clinical trials across the partnership. Princess Royal University Hospital and Orpington Hospital become part of King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.  

2014 - KHP responds to the west Africa Ebola outbreak, with volunteers treating 10% of the 4,000 cases.

2015 - KHP trusts are among the first in the UK to go smokefree, tackling health inequalities caused by tobacco dependence.

2016 - Local Care Record is launched, enabling healthcare professionals to instantly see patient information held in other settings. Later expanded to the London Care Record.

2017 - Mind & Body Champions initiative creates a community of nearly 1,100 staff promoting integrated mental and physical healthcare. 

2018 - Vital 5 initiative is launched, measuring, recording, and controlling five key measures to improve health outcomes. 

2019 - First patients in the UK are treated with chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy, a complex personalised immunotherapy.

2020 - Through Life Lines, KHP supports 132,565 virtual visits in the pandemic with 1,000,820 call minutes connecting families with their loved ones in intensive care on 1,450 devices. 

2021 - We develop plans for SC1 London Life Sciences innovation district - a transformative life sciences ecosystem - and Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust merges with Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.

2022 - KHP takes on a six-month presidency of European University Hospital Alliance.

2023 - KHP Centre for Translational Medicine funds its first fellowships, with more than £8.5m invested in its first year. 

2024 - Launch of London Institute for Healthcare Engineering (LIHE) and KHP Digital Health Hub, enabling training, co-creation, and acceleration of digital health technologies.

2025 - KHP partners with The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology on a global commission, published in 2025, which sets out a new diagnostic model of obesity. 

Looking ahead

The Pears Maudsley Centre - a world-class institution bringing together clinicians, researchers, young people, and families with education and the latest technologies – is due to open. 

Evelina London Children's Hospital will become the Principal Treatment Centre for specialist care of children with cancer for London and south east England.

Integrated mind and body care is central to our identity. The mind and body are deeply connected, influencing and impacting each other at every stage of life.

Significant unmet need and stark health inequalities exist for people living with mental and physical health conditions, including a shocking 15 to 20 year drop in life expectancy for people with serious mental illness (SMI). Looking at the mind and body as one drastically improves the quality of research, education, and care, leading to better outcomes for patients and more efficient use of healthcare resources.

To create a world where person-centred, mind and body care is consistently and compassionately delivered
for patients, carers, and communities, we are committed to:

1. Leading the way by integrating mental and physical health in all that we do;
2. Educating and training the work and care force in mind and body care;
3. Focussing on meaningful engagement, robust evidence, evaluation, and continuous improvement in mind and body care that can lead to impact at scale.

Serious inequities exist throughout our health and care system, from gender imbalance in clinical trials to racial disparities in the treatment of mental health disorders.

Equity and the recognition of diverse, lived experience are fundamental to our work. We champion the multitude of backgrounds that exist and understand that different perspectives strengthen our work and therefore benefit staff, students, patients, and communities. We are mindful of intersectionality, recognising the importance of individuals' overlapping identities and unique experiences.

To create an environment where everyone has opportunities to thrive, free from discrimination, we are committed to:

1. Leading the way in equity, diversity, and inclusion by using our expertise to research, gather evidence, and innovate to bring about change for the better;
2. Actively seeking out, listening to, and learning from underrepresented communities, ensuring their voices inform everything we do; 
3. Prioritising inclusive leadership that challenges inequity and promotes behaviours rooted in compassion, respect, and fairness.

Patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) is essential in healthcare research and delivery.

Patient and carer insights, such as experience and satisfaction, are critically important for shaping a health and care system that truly serves our population. To create a sustainable partnership-wide approach
that ensures PPIE is at our heart, we are committed to:

1. Building collaborative relationships with patients, carers, and members of public that represent the diverse, local populations we serve;
2. Ensuring our work reflects what matters most to people through co-creation with patients and carers, improving experiences of healthcare, enhancing the relevance of research, and driving better health outcomes;
3. Developing and expanding inclusive public involvement opportunities, working to embed equity throughout healthcare and research.

Patients and communities

Lead the way in delivering personalised, integrated care that addresses both mind and body, ensuring evidence-based, co-created initiatives benefit those experiencing the greatest health disparities. 

For example we will:

• Accelerate research, development, and adoption of personalised diagnostics, therapies, and best practice evidence to ensure patients receive faster, personalised healthcare;
• Dismantle barriers and increase diversity in clinical research trials, particularly for ethnic minority groups and those with serious mental illness, ensuring equitable access to innovative treatments.

Staff and students

Expand and upskill the research and clinical workforce to support the future of personalised health, ensuring training and career development reflects the evolving needs and diversity of our population.

For example we will:

• Invest in and design tailored career pathways across all professional levels, creating a diverse and sustainable research workforce and futureproofing our research ecosystem;
• Expand access to training opportunities in personalised medicine and research innovation. 

Partners and the wider health economy

Create a translational research and innovation ecosystem that accelerates discoveries and scales effective healthcare solutions. 

For example we will:

• Transform research operation and streamline infrastructure to improve efficiency and accelerate the delivery of innovative trials and therapies to patients;
• Advance industry collaborations to improve patient access to life-changing innovations and position us as an industry partner of choice.

Our partners have the largest sickle cell research portfolio in the UK. A new gene therapy for sickle cell disease, called Casgevy, was recently approved by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE). King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of five UK sites authorised to treat patients, with the Trust expecting its first in early 2026. The discovery that led to the development of this treatment came from a clinical academic across King's College London and King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. 

Clinical trials don’t always reflect our population's rich diversity and ethnic minorities are often left out. A first of its kind, King’s College London’s UK Smart Trials Development Hub draws on our partnership's expertise to make clinical trials more inclusive and deliver personalised care that is tailored to individual needs. The KHP Centre for Translational Medicine aligns with this goal by prioritising research that aims to reduce health inequities. 

Through the group's academic hub at the Cicely Saunders Institute, the KHP Palliative Care Clinical Academic Group developed a suite of resources called Let's Talk: Advance Care Planning to arm patients, families, and staff with the knowledge and skills needed to make decisions and plan personalised care. What's more, to equip policymakers with evidence that reduces inequalities in end-of-life care, the group launched the first NIHR Policy Research Unit in palliative and end-of-life care in January 2024. The unit, led by King's College London and partners across multiple universities, will invest £3 million over three years to improve care for individuals and their loved ones when they need it most. 

The KHP Centre for Translational Medicine, powered by King’s Health Partners together with generous support from Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation, is accelerating health improvements locally, nationally, and globally. As a driving force in tackling health inequities, the Centre has already funded 39 clinical academic posts, strengthening research, innovation, and the translation of discoveries into real-world impact across the health system. 

The King’s Centre for Military Health Research is the leading civilian UK centre of excellence for research with the armed forces community. The centre's research has provided much-needed evidence and policy changes on the health and wellbeing of serving military personnel, veterans, and their families. For example, mental health support for reservists was improved entitling them to the same care after deployment as their counterparts. 

Patients and communities

Improve and integrate our data systems to drive innovations in digital health and data science that will benefit patients faster.

For example we will:

• Link Epic and LUCI electronic patient data platforms together to enable the use of high-quality, multimodal data for research, validation, and real-world evaluation;
• Unlock and connect south east London's health data records, such as imaging, genomics, and population health data, to drive research and innovation.

Staff and students

Ensure digital health solutions in data science, AI, and innovative technologies are developed and adopted safely and shared with people at scale, by building capacity across the work and care force.

For example we will:

• Enhance digital skills through the KHP Digital Health Academy, providing tailored training in data science, AI, and digital health tools for staff across clinical and research roles, enabling the confident adoption of innovation at scale;
• Promote equity through inclusive outreach programmes such as the Health Data Research UK Black Data Scientists & Engineers initiative.

Partners and the wider health economy

Connect academic, healthcare, and industry professionals to expand our unique MedTech innovation ecosystem and develop and deploy digital health technologies that will transform mental and physical health.

For example we will:

• Accelerate innovation through the London Institute for Healthcare Engineering, supporting delivery at every stage – from ideation to validation to commercialisation;
• Promote the safe and responsible use of AI in healthcare by implementing frameworks and governance models for example through our critical role in Responsible Ai UK.

The London Medical Imaging & AI Centre for Value-Based Healthcare, led by King’s College London and based at St Thomas’ Hospital, brings academic, NHS, and industry partners together. Teams are examining how AI can be used to deliver better care while improving finances for the NHS and health and care systems. A network of professionals across KHP, through the Responsible AI UK programme, are also working to ensure AI is used safely and with care, while responding to the needs of our society

Led by researchers and clinicians across the partnership and beyond, a powerful AI platform is transforming cancer care by refining decades of NHS cancer data and creating an unprecedented 360-degree profile of each patient. This technology is empowering researchers, developers, and innovators to responsibly and ethically shape the future of personalised medicine.

The KHP Digital Health Hub, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), is a multi-disciplinary resource supporting training, co-design, and translation of digital health and clinical data science technologies across King’s Health Partners. Through the Digital Health Academy, some of our courses include the Innovation Scholars Programme, Co-Design for Digital Health, and Value Driven Innovation. 

The electronic patient record system named Epic was launched jointly by partners Guy’s and St Thomas’ and King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trusts. Now rolled out across a number of hospitals, Epic replaced a number of historic IT systems and paper records that were previously in use. Use of Epic, combined with academic expertise, platforms, and data linkage, with support from the Centre for Translational Informatics, will transform person-centred care.

Epilepsy is a disabling brain disorder affecting around 600,000 people in the UK. A team of researchers across King's College London and King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust are testing a device that measures electrical activity in the brain. The device is implanted between the skull and the skin under local anaesthetic, recording brain wave activity for months in the comfort of home. Outside of easing hospital pressures, these devices could be used to reduce harm or uncertainty of living with epilepsy, by monitoring disease more accurately, alerting people or caregivers that a seizure is occurring, or even predicting when a
seizure might occur in the future. 

Patients and communities

Work with partners, patients, and communities to co-develop and prioritise the most impactful proactive and preventative health initiatives, ensuring more people benefit from evidence-based, personalised care.

• Generate evidence and accelerate preventative health interventions to improve outcomes for those affected by the greatest disease burdens, particularly underrepresented communities;
• Innovate how we turn personalised insights into real-time improvements using methodologies such as the NHS Patient Survey Programme, Friends and Family Test, Patient Reported Outcome Measures, and Patient Reported Experience Measures.

Staff and students

Build an agile and adaptable health and care workforce empowered to apply population-wide principles to their practice.

For example we will:

• Understand existing capabilities, knowledge, and strengths of our communities' health and care workforce, to find and fill population health education gaps through bespoke training;
• Develop bespoke population health training resources, enabling the health and care workforce to apply population-wide principles to their practice, and exploring innovations such as health coaching that respond to individual, population, and system needs. 

Partners and the wider health economy

Work with partners to collect and share comprehensive evidence that deepens understanding of our population’s physical and mental health, burden of disease, and how environment impacts wellbeing.

For example we will:

• Share cross-partnership expertise on how to scale impactful prevention programmes, learning and building on innovations and implementation methods used, for example for the Vital 5 Check;
• Provide new population health insights to inform evidence-based commissioning and system-wide improvements with global impact, including by leveraging analytical expertise through the King's Population Health Institute.

The Vital 5 assesses five key measures, including blood pressure, tobacco dependency, unhealthy weight, mental health, and alcohol intake, shedding light on a person's overall health and wellbeing and supporting access to early intervention and preventative advice. A collaboration between KHP and the South East London Integrated Care Board - more than 150,000 Vital 5 Checks have been delivered in south east London, for example at a kiosk, local pharmacy, or through community-based outreach. 

NIHR ARC researchers tested a new integrated model of care, called the Children and Young People’s Health Partnership (CYPHP), to improve care for all children and young people living in Lambeth and Southwark. Hosted by Evelina London Children’s Hospital and King’s College London, it was co-designed by local clinicians, parents, carers, children and young people, researchers, commissioners, and healthcare providers. In a three-year clinical trial involving nearly 100,000 children from across 70 general practices in Lambeth and Southwark, the research team compared the CYPHP model to standard paediatric services. The trial showed improved health outcomes and quality of care for children with long-term conditions, such as asthma and eczema. 

King's Health Partners partnered with The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology to organise a global commission with the goal of addressing key questions surrounding obesity, a condition that affects millions. Its findings introduce two new classifications of pre-clinical and clinical obesity and how to prevent, diagnose, and treat the condition. Following the commission's international launch, receiving global attention from 92 countries, our teams are exploring how best to implement and scale these ground-breaking recommendations. 

The UK's first industry-funded whole-body positron emission tomography (PET) scanner is being used to assess patients in St Thomas' Hospital. It is two to three times faster, produces half the radiation making it feasible for use in children for the first time, and creates more detailed images than other PET scanners. This cutting-edge innovation improves NHS efficiency, quality of care, and is now being used by researchers across the partnership to test a new imaging tracer for people with cancer. 

The clinical insight tool LUCI is used by clinical care teams at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, to help them easily find key information in complex medical records and access summaries at individual and population level. This revolutionary tool brings together experts from the trust, the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre, and the IoPPN, using natural language processing techniques to extract information from records. 

Shared expertise and data-driven healthcare improve both mental and physical health outcomes. Evidence-based interventions lead to more effective treatments, while better access to diagnostics, therapies, and clinical trials ensures equitable opportunities for participation, no matter where patients enter the system.

We provide extensive learning and career development opportunities, from digital health innovation to clinical leadership. Through initiatives like the KHP Digital Health and Learning Hubs, King’s Clinical Academic Training Office, and KHP Centre for Translational Medicine, we equip professionals with the knowledge and skills to shape the future of healthcare.

King’s Business School aims to tackle critical healthcare problems through interdisciplinary research, policy influence, and leadership development. The faculty leads and participates in major projects addressing big workforce challenges. For example, in partnership with South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, the school co-created and evaluated a clinical leadership development programme with funding from Maudsley Charity. 

We have a louder collective voice, leading to greater influence on policy and practice. By pooling resources, partners unlock greater investment in cutting-edge technologies and pioneering research, ensuring state-of-the-art innovations reach patients faster and more effectively across all sites. Together, we can ensure the research we undertake helps to solve the challenges faced by the NHS, leading to a more productive and sustainable health and care system.

World-class science and MedTech innovation drive investment and accelerate patient benefit. Our excellence in biomedical science and technology attracts global industry investment, fosters commercial partnerships, and accelerates patient access to life-changing treatments.

Mind and body integration improves outcomes and reduces healthcare costs. Personalised care that addresses both mental and physical health improves patient outcomes and experience, reduces sickness absence, increases NHS productivity, reduces healthcare costs, and alleviates economic pressure.

Investment in workforce development strengthens NHS resilience and wellbeing. Training and development opportunities empower staff to progress their careers, improve their wellbeing, and build a workforce that is adaptable, skilled, and reflective of the communities we serve.

EUHA is a network of eleven leading university hospitals across Europe. Our membership introduces partner staff and students to an international network of healthcare professionals and funding opportunities. The partnership has contributed to changes to EU policy and practice, for example by advocating for stronger cross-border collaboration through the Rethinking Healthcare Systems initiative. King’s Health Partners' clinical academic group model has also been adopted by partners across Europe. 

Ele is an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) research nurse, working between King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London. She is completing an NIHR clinical academic doctoral research fellowship to study the barriers to healthcare professionals carrying out ultrasounds in the ICU.

"The opportunity to collaborate across trusts and learn from each other’s experiences is invaluable. The interconnectedness between the university and KHP trusts facilitates the perfect environment for hybrid working by enabling both academic and clinical work to be carried out on the same site."

Emily is a clinical specialist physiotherapist within the neuropsychiatry team at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Emily supports trusts across King's Health Partners to treat patients with a condition called functional neurological disorder (FND) that affects how the brain receives and sends information to the rest of the body.

"Many people haven’t heard of the condition, but it is one of the most common conditions seen in neurology outpatient clinics. With support from the KHP neuroscience programme team, we offer an annual FND masterclass that staff across the partnership can attend for free to learn more about FND research and care. It also provides an opportunity for staff to network and build relationships across the partnership."

Alanna is a consultant in respiratory failure and sleep medicine at Royal Brompton Hospital and has created a programme of educational events across the partnership. 

"In my field of sleep medicine there are long waiting lists for diagnostic tests and treatments, particularly since the pandemic. I think what we’re able to offer now in sleep medicine across the partnership is probably not replicated anywhere else in the UK. We've got the advantage and unique positioning of the partnership, in terms of the spectrum of specialists that we have available to us."

We will connect and convene across the partnership, bringing together those who can collaborate to drive transformational change for patients and our health and care system as a whole. This includes building on our internationally recognised and globally replicated clinical academic model, fostering deeper relationships across research, education, and care.

We will strengthen the existing and future health and care workforce through outstanding education and training opportunities, including the KHP Centre for Translational Medicine fellowships, the KHP Learning Hub, educational events led by our Clinical Academic Groups, King's Clinical Academic Training Office, and the KHP Digital Health Academy. Taking an evidence-based and personalised approach to training and personal development, we will track careers, identify gaps, and support people to achieve fulfilling, flexible careers that reflect the evolving needs of healthcare.

We will spark new collaborations that lead to better care for patients and communities at every stage of the care journey. We will also expand our agile and responsive research function, leveraging expertise in applied research, rich knowledge of partner data systems, and robust evaluation techniques to address local and national priorities at pace. We oversee an extraordinary network of research, data, education and innovation infrastructure and are committed to ensuring that this wealth of knowledge and opportunity is accessible to everyone who can benefit.

Building on lessons learned from years of partnership, we will continue to innovate in organisational design, working across professional, disciplinary, and organisational boundaries to advance our shared mission. Our approach incorporates best practices from national and international leaders in health, care, and research.

The KHP Board, led by an independent Chair, provides oversight and strategic leadership, while the KHP Executive Group drives priorities and ensures we deliver for patients and communities, staff and students, and our partners through our innovative impact framework. Our core principles – mind and body integration, equity, diversity, and inclusion, and co-creation with patients – shape how we operate and are embedded across all projects, from creation right through to evaluation.

Our operating model has matured with the introduction of Chief Academic Officer roles at our partner NHS Trusts - the first such appointment in the UK. These roles formally prioritise the integration of research, education, and care delivery like never before, strengthening our mission to pioneer better health for all, together. By aligning resources, data, and shared investment, we are removing operational barriers and enabling seamless collaboration across partner organisations.

Our strategic objectives and portfolios of work are delivered by the outstanding people within our partner organisations, supported by a skilled central partnership team – our KHP engine room – specialising in cross-boundary collaboration and coordination. Each strategic priority will be monitored and reported on, both collectively and within individual partner organisations, with dedicated leads ensuring that our core principles are integrated throughout each and every initiative.

As a partnership, we are committed to extending our reach beyond the UK, leading the way in clinical academic partnership by strengthening ties with universities, innovation partners, industry, local authorities, commissioners, regulators, and national policy makers. Through our international partnerships, we will continue to share best practices, influence healthcare policy, and reimagine health and care systems worldwide

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's leading providers of hospital and community-based healthcare, research, and education.

From its five main hospitals – Guy's Hospital, St Thomas' Hospital, Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal
Brompton Hospital and Harefield Hospital, and in the community in Lambeth and Southwark, the trust provides a full range of lifelong, general, and specialist care.

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides a strong profile of local hospital services for people living in the boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham, and Bromley.

Its specialist services are also available to patients from a wider area. The trust provides nationally and internationally recognised treatment and care in liver disease and transplantation, neurosciences, haemato-oncology, and foetal medicine.

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust provides the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK.

The trust's scope is unique by building on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training. With more than 6,500 staff members and 270 services, the trust serves a population
of 1.3 million people in south east London, as well as providing national specialist services for both children and adults across the UK.

King’s College London is an internationally renowned university delivering exceptional education and world-leading research.

It is dedicated to driving positive and sustainable change in society and realising our vision of making the world a better place. Through the university's commitment to exceptional education, impactful research and genuine service to society, they are creating positive change in our communities, both in London and on the world stage.