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.

    Published in 2025, Our Strategy to 2030 sets out a 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. 

    Our highlights from 2025-26 are below and you can also access Impact Reports from previous years.

    Introduction

    King’s Health Partners is delivering impact through partnership.

    The KHP Strategy to 2030 launched in June 2025, engaging with more than 1,000 people including patients, frontline staff, researchers and members of the wider community. 

    In 2025/2026 we focused on:

    Delivering personalised health

    The KHP Centre for Translational Medicine has made awards worth £13.3m to more than 100 researchers and projects across King’s Health Partners.

    The centre has:

    • Generated more than 590 publications in a single year and supported practice‑changing studies, including major clinical trials and AI‑enabled diagnostics that are already influencing care; 
    • Delivered strong return on investment, leveraging more than £12 of external funding for every £1 invested, with over £83 million secured to expand research and innovation across the partnership; 
    • Strengthened the clinical‑academic workforce, with high progression rates into further funding and a diverse pipeline of researchers, including under‑represented professional groups; 
    • Embedded health equity and community partnership into research, ensuring studies are co‑designed with patients and communities and better reflect real‑world populations and needs.

    "We are investing in people, we are giving them the time for research but also the support so they can excel and have sustainable careers in research.” - Prof Phil Newsome, Director, Centre for Translational Medicine

    “I am extremely fortunate to have received funding through the KHP CTM Pre-doctoral Clinical Research Excellence Fellowship. This opportunity has been a pivotal stepping stone in my clinical academic career and has enabled me to develop funding applications for a doctoral fellowship.” – Dr Manpreet Sago

    Visit our 'delivering personalised health' page to find out more about our strategic objectives and how we will accelerate the translation of cutting-edge discoveries into personalised, evidence-based healthcare that is tailored to individual needs.

    Accelerating Digital Health

    KHP Digital Health Hub 

    The Hub delivers training, codesign, translation and acceleration support across the partnership, helping teams embed patient-centred design, unlock large-scale health data, and align clinical innovation with real-world needs. The Hub has supported:

    • 13,800 training enrolments
    • involved 600 participants in co-design workshops
    • has approved six data access applications this academic year, spanning neurological, cardiac, and dental imaging, facilitating access to data for both academic and commercial research from 112,000 imaging sessions across approximately 93,000 patients. 

    “We have collaborated and provided support to healthcare professionals, researchers, designers, PhD students, and PPIE members from across King’s Health Partners, all eager to explore co-design in digital health.” - Dr Emelia Delaney and Dr Lili Golmohammadi

    The King’s Medtech Accelerator is supporting 15 Digital Health Projects across KHP. 

    Responsible AI UK

    In December the Responsible Ai UK Health and Social Care working group, convened over 50 participants, including the Responsible AI Champions from across the country and international collaborators to shape national and global approaches to responsible AI by promoting best practices, fostering collaboration, and advocating for ethical and inclusive adoption across health and social care. 

    Visit our 'accelerating digital health' page to find out more about our strategic objectives to 2030 and how we will accelerate the advancement and clinical adoption of digital health technologies.

    Improving population health 

    KHP is now focused on two lighthouse projects: 

    • Cardiometabolic health - including cardiac, renal and metabolic conditions - the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in south east London and beyond 
    • Reducing the mortality gap for people living with severe mental illness which can be up to 15-20 years earlier than the general population.  An SMI policy roundtable was delivered in November 2025 with follow-up workshops and policy outputs underway. 

    Vital 5

    The Vital 5 health check programme has helped more than 155,000 people in south east London and is attracting global interest. 

    “The Vital 5 Check programme is identifying unmet health needs and engaging underserved populations, particularly in deprived areas. There is strong overall satisfaction from recipients, with most residents expressing positive behaviour change intentions and a willingness to recommend the service to others.” – Michael Sanderson, King’s Health Partners

    PEACS

    The KHP Mind & Body PEACS (Pain: Equality of Care and Support in the Community) programme has been awarded a £1million grant to scale chronic pain support nationally.  The grant was awarded by Arthritis UK through their Living Well 2025 funding stream. The focus of the investment is to address musculoskeletal health inequalities, by striving for better musculoskeletal (MSK) health and care at home, in leisure, at work, and in communities. 

    Visit our 'improving population health' page to find out more about our strategic objectives to 2030 and how we will deepen our understanding of patients and communities in our population and empower them to live healthier lives.

    Joining up mental and physical healthcare

    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.

    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:

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

    “How can we understand all the various factors that go into mental health? And how can we bring all the professions together? KHP for me brings those people together, brings that knowledge together, and I think that is the power of it.” - Jane Bailey, Chair, South London and Maudsley NHS FT

    Visit our mind and body pages to find out more.

    Policy and partnerships

    Working in partnership directly benefits patients, our partner organisations, their staff and students, and the wider health economy

    In February 2026, we announced a KHP Lancet Commission on Sepsis with 20 international commissioners

    February 2026 also saw the launch of the KHP Centre for Critical Illness Research - a cross-faculty centre for academic excellence, focussing on critical illness. 

    KHP Policy Institute series

    Capacity building and engagement

    • KHP Learning Hub, an online education and training platform designed to deliver the highest standards of professional development for healthcare practitioners reached 10,000 users. 
    • Internships and fellowships - the KHP surgical fellowship entered its 5th year with 33 fellows. Five CTM Postdoctoral Clinical Research Excellence Fellowships were awarded. Eight candidates were awarded CTM Predoctoral Clinical Research Excellence Fellowships, offering one year of pump-prime funding to allow protected research time and training for health professionals working in translational medicine.
    • More than 2,000 people across KHP took part in events across 2025/2026 including 591 people at the KHP Annual Conference 2025 and 119 people at Shaping the future of Personalised health: A KHP Centre for Translational Medicine showcase.
    • Progressed cross-partner collaboration through development of a shared MoU, reinforcing a collective commitment to supporting clinical academic careers across all healthcare professions.
    • Enhanced visibility and engagement through a refreshed KCATO website including training on funding applications and a flagship symposium on the responsible use of AI and Big Data.

    “The Fellowship was absolutely amazing. I met a wide range of people from different professions and walks of life. It really cemented my understanding of leadership and management within the NHS and the healthcare system.” - Ekemini Ekpo

    Patient and public involvement

    KHP is committed to meaningfully engaging staff, patients, service users, their families and carers, and the wider communities we serve in the formulation and implementation of our work.

    Patient and public engagement goes beyond communicating information – it is a continuous process of working together to design, develop, and deliver high quality integrated care in an inclusive way that best meets the needs of people accessing and delivering services by involving and consulting with them.

    Patient and Public Involvement/Engagement Pre-grant Support Fund

    The Centre of Translational Medicine PPIE Pre-Grant Fund was launched to involve patient and public members in the development of an external (e.g. NIHR, MRC or other) translational research grant applications. This funding aims to support the true partnership of patients and the public in the development of translational research grants across King’s Health Partners. 

    “For many groups and particularly the underserved groups… one of the biggest issues that we can change overnight is making sure that when we are doing research, we are sharing that with people that we have worked with” - Dr Juliana Onwumere, South London and Maudsley NHS FT

    Looking ahead

    • Scale impact across programmes, ensuring the benefits of our work are realised consistently across partners and maximise the value of our collective strengths.
    • Deliver our Strategy to 2030, translating ambition into measurable outcomes that strengthen clinical academic pathways and research capacity.
    • Strengthen partnerships through a distinctive, collaborative model that brings together four organisations with world-leading expertise, enabling more cohesive working and greater shared value.
    • Build capacity and connectivity by supporting individuals, teams and systems to work more effectively together.
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    Our achievements are also set out in the Impact Report 2023-24 (PDF), Impact Report 2022-23 (PDF), Impact Report 2021-22 (PDF), and Impact Report 2020-21 (PDF).

    To request accessible versions of any of these reports, please contact us.

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