NHS Voices

Thought leadership that sparks debate, shares learning and inspires new ways of working across health and care.
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NHS Voices is the place to share ideas, debate solutions and discover how organisations are confronting challenges across health and care.

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Featured blogs

Thomas Webb
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IT is key for productivity gains but processes must be standardised first

There are very real opportunities for the NHS to become more productive, writes Thomas Webb of Ethical Healthcare Consulting.

24 June 2024
Sian Stanley
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Working across the interface: greater than the sum of our parts

In Harlow, community/primary assets are reducing pressure on the emergency department by providing alternative care settings.

19 March 2024
Jacob Haddad speaking at ConfedExpo.
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A more sustainable operating model for primary care

Two key principles for a more sustainable operating model for primary care.

15 February 2024

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Duty of candour

Being open and transparent helps to know what’s right to do for patients, families and staff.

1 November 2021

The best service the NHS has offered yet

With medicines optimisation costs increasing, effective approaches are needed at national, systems and place levels with ICSs playing a key part.

27 October 2021

It’s good to talk

Initiatives such as Men’s Shed Fleetwood are proving important not only to mental health and wellbeing, but to reducing pressures on the NHS.

15 October 2021

How do we define 'value' in the NHS?

Moving to integrated care systems, the NHS has a real opportunity to focus on the whole patient pathway and the value that can add.

12 October 2021

The NHS backlog requires radical treatment

NHS leaders know that they must find a radically new approach to dealing with the waiting list backlog, explains Matthew Taylor.

26 September 2021