Confed Viewpoint

Insight and thought leadership from the NHS Confederation

Experts from across the NHS Confederation share their insight and ideas about the challenges and issues facing health and care.

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Matthew Taylor and Chris Ham

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NHS targets reveal the limits of pressure from the top

Lessons from the Blair era show that focusing on one outcome can distort the rest of the healthcare system.

18 December 2024

Sarah Walter

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Neighbourhood health is best delivered at ‘place’

Investing in integration at place is key to delivering the government's plans to improve the nation's health and economic growth.

28 November 2024

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Boosting health can prop up the economy

How should the government tackle health inequalities? Matthew Taylor describes how improvements in health can help stem economic inactivity.

7 November 2024

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The major conditions strategy - just another NHS plan?

Insights into the benefits of a multimorbidity approach to managing major conditions that goes beyond the NHS.

15 August 2023

Remembering the basics for innovation adoption and spread

Key activities that health system leaders can do to increase the successful adoption and implementation of healthcare innovations.

4 August 2023

Developing a digital blueprint for success

Integrated care leaders have shared the challenges they face in bringing about digital changes, and their keenness to progress.

1 August 2023

Mental health is now barely acknowledged by this government

A recent report showed mental health being in a better place by 2032. For this be a reality, mental health services must be a government priority.

25 July 2023

The NHS needs a new social contract

With the NHS celebrating its 75th anniversary, Matthew Taylor reflects on what's needed for it to 'survive and thrive for the next 75 years'.

6 July 2023

Reducing health inequalities by providing quality care to all communities

Tackling rising health inequalities and stagnating life expectancy requires sustainable transformation towards prevention and health creation.

30 June 2023

Prioritising prevention policy in integrated care systems

With the consensus that the NHS should focus strongly on preventative healthcare, how can ICSs accelerate and embed secondary disease prevention?

26 June 2023

The potential of care coordination

Focusing resilience strategies on care coordination can help prepare for the near future while building a bridge to the long term.

9 June 2023

The Hewitt review: next steps and implementation

ICS leaders have shared their key priorities for implementing the Hewitt review recommendations.

8 June 2023

The importance of reflection and working in social partnership

Welsh NHS Confederation's Nesta Lloyd-Jones reflects on the impact of the team's work in 2022/23 and the value of working in social partnership.

31 May 2023

We must hold our nerve: continuing the Fuller transformation journey

While it may not be as fast as some had hoped, primary care must continue the progress being made towards achieving the Fuller stocktake's vision.

25 May 2023

The NHS can’t be left to pick up any of the bill for this pay deal

NHS leaders expect to be set stretching efficiency savings but these must based on a fighting chance of them being achieved, writes Matthew Taylor.

11 May 2023