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Thought leadership that sparks debate, shares learning and inspires new ways of working across health and care.

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Zoe Reed

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Implementing PCREF – our progress one year on

Zoë Reed shares how PCREF has helped South London and Maudsley address inequity and improve access to mental health care for racialised communities.

5 December 2024

Sam Keighley

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Prevention needs brave leadership and a thriving VCSE

A strong VCSE sector is key to achieving the government’s shift from cure to prevention.

9 December 2024

Derek Bell

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No perfect group

The challenges, rewards and continuing lessons of group working at University Hospitals Tees.

7 November 2024

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Integrated care partnerships: time to get serious

Matthew Taylor floats four propositions to help ensure that integrated care partnerships fly.

10 February 2022

Collaboration must be at the heart of the future of health and care

Integrated care systems (ICSs) and provider collaboratives are at the heart of reforms to enable more collaboration within and outside of the NHS.

3 February 2022

The health and care bill: what’s changed in the Commons and what’s on the Lords’ agenda?

What may still change in the health and care bill as it goes to the House of Lords?

3 December 2021

Health bill gives too much power to Whitehall

While most of its proposals are welcome, the health and care bill’s weakness is the power it gives the health secretary to make clinical decisions.

23 November 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

Finding value: emerging value-based trends in healthcare

A commercial perspective on how value-based healthcare can help achieve the best possible healthcare outcomes at a proportionate cost.

8 October 2021

Time to act together: two-hour crisis response

The Community Network, hosted by the NHS Confederation and NHS Providers, is shining a light on innovative practice among community providers.

28 September 2021

Unpacking system leadership

Matthew Taylor on system leadership and why thinking like a system but acting like an entrepreneur is the order of the day.

21 September 2021

Responding to challenges requires a partnership of equals

ICS leaders are rising to the challenge of strengthening system partnerships while preparing to take on statutory responsibilities from April 2022.

23 August 2021

Amanda Pritchard’s appointment: a moment in NHS history

As the new chief executive of the NHS in England, Amanda Pritchard’s appointment signals the start of more representative leadership.

6 August 2021

The health and care bill: key changes ahead

What amendments can we expect for the health and care bill following its second reading in the House of Commons?

4 August 2021

Success criteria for a reformed health and care system

What are ambitious leaders seeing as the most important and demanding success criteria for integrated systems?

30 July 2021

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