'No health without mental health' presented at KHP Annual Conference

At the end of September, 635 people from around the globe joined King’s Health Partners’ 2024 Annual Conference, with many more joining the live online broadcast to make it the biggest year yet.

King’s Health Partners (KHP) is a partnership between three NHS Foundation Trusts, Guy’s and St Thomas’, King’s College Hospital and South London and Maudsley, together with world-leading university King’s College London.

The KHP conference programme focused on how partners are addressing health inequality and working to achieve health equity across the system, through advancements in research, healthcare, education and technology.

Taking to the stage to join a selection of presentations and discussion on Population Health were PHI-UK Population Mental Health Consortium co-directors, Prof Jay Das-Munshi and Dan Barrett.

This was the first time they have both jointly presented together about the new nation-wide Population Mental Health Consortium (PMHC).

The PMHC aims to create new opportunities for population-based improvements in mental health across the UK. The focus will be on children and young people, suicide and self-harm prevention and multiple long-term conditions.

The conference provided a helpful opportunity to share and outline how the Consortium, which kick-started its work in April as part of the established UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Population Health Improvement UK (PHI-UK), is already beginning to take shape and share aspirations for the road ahead.

The Consortium has received over £7m of funding from UKRI, and includes Thrive LDN, King’s College London, University College London, Middlesex University, Swansea University, Ulster University, University of Manchester, Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS and Applied Research Collaboration West Midlands.

You can watch Prof Jay Das-Munshi and Dan Barrett’s KHP presentation, No health without mental health, via YouTube (beginning at 49:42).

For more details about the PMHC, visit the Population Health Improvement UK website.