The King’s Fund has published a report outlining the lessons learned from the health care response to the Grenfell Tower fire.

The report found that it is possible to move to a more community-focused approach in responding to such major emergencies. But there is a risk that these ways of working may be seen by some as a time-limited approach in response to an exceptional situation, and that there will be a return to top-down ways of working when the additional funding following the fire runs out. To avoid this, it calls for

  • Greater depth of community involvement in decision-making, which will require greater transparency in decisions and openness to shifting where resources are spent.
  • More transparency so that public services can be held to account by local communities for funding decisions and the outcomes they achieve.
  • Going further in working as one joined-up system, rather than individual services working with communities in silos, and individual services or institutions defending their status quo.

Read the report here