NHS Voices

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

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Featured blogs

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

Lorraine Mattis

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Reforming dentistry through primary care collaboration

To address NHS dental care access and oral health inequalities, we must advocate for policies that facilitate integration among primary care providers

16 September 2024

Fay Blackwood and Eric Pirozzoli

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Diversifying the upper levels of the health service

Despite the incredible diversity of NHS staff as a whole, there is a distinct lack of diversity at higher levels. So what is going wrong?

21 August 2024

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Clean air is the NHS’s most powerful weapon against COVID-19

The biggest risk of COVID-19 transmission is airborne. Could tackling clean air be a way through the pandemic?

26 August 2021

Health inequalities: what the vaccination programme is teaching us

A project as specific as the COVID-19 vaccination programme has proved to be a springboard to addressing inequalities in health and care.

20 August 2021

Spending Review is an opportunity to invest in the NHS for the future

Now is the moment for an honest revaluation of the long-term funding settlement for the NHS.

17 August 2021

How leisure and culture trusts support the NHS

If we want to effectively invest in wellbeing initiatives and achieve health equity, leisure and culture trusts should form part of any local approach

12 August 2021

Primary care federations and the COVID-19 vaccination programme

Insight into the little understood role of primary care federations in delivering the COVID-19 vaccination programme.

9 August 2021

Discharge to assess – we must not lose progress

Failing to extend funding for discharge to assess could bring huge risk for the NHS, social care and patients.

6 August 2021

The workforce gap is our climate change emergency

Can innovative workforce interventions and a new health and care careers offer help reduce the increasing gap in health and social care workforce?

5 August 2021

Why is the NHS under such extreme pressure?

Darren Hughes, director of the Welsh NHS Confederation writes for the Western Mail on the current pressures facing the NHS in Wales.

2 August 2021

Being candid about COVID-19: preparation for the public inquiry

The NHS must be ready for the microscope of the COVID-19 public inquiry, to ensure that lessons are learned for the future from the pandemic response.

2 August 2021

Why innovation holds the key to creating the health and care system of the future

Innovation has accelerated across the NHS throughout the pandemic and has a key role to play in creating the health and care system of the future.

19 July 2021

How small numbers can create great problems

One COVID-19 patient has a significant impact on a trust's capacity. James Devine, our acute care programme director, explains why.

13 July 2021

Not too much to mask

As we approach Freedom Day, the NHS Confederation is set to launch an initiative to support informed personal choices once restrictions lift.

12 July 2021

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