NHS Voices

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

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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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The power of co-creating transformation

While there are many challenges to overcome, the current NHS landscape also offers an opportunity for transformative ideas to come to the fore.

12 June 2023

The time for action on prevention is now

As leaders we must make a choice to protect our prevention work from the many other urgent pulls on resources, writes Stephen Eames.

5 June 2023

Inclusion health: tackling the extreme end of health inequalities

Integrating services is key to improving experiences for people in inclusion health groups and for the health and care system as a whole.

1 June 2023

Supporting transgender and gender non-conforming patients to access healthcare

Primary care is bridging the gap to trans, non-binary, intersex and gender non-conforming patients in South Southwark.

17 May 2023

Social prescribing link workers can improve mental health outcomes and waiting lists

For Link Worker Day, Christiana Melam explains how social prescribing link workers can support mental health patients before they reach crisis point.

27 April 2023

Primary care networks and cloud-based telephony

How cloud-based telephony can enable more holistic and personalised primary care for patients.

30 March 2023

The NHS has warmed to Barclay, but his biggest test is to come

What the new reforms proposed by the Hewitt review will mean for the NHS and population health outcomes.

29 March 2023

Integrated care system measures that matter

How could integrated care system success be assessed? Dr Helen Davies shares her view on the metrics that might unlock the answer.

9 March 2023

Mental health - understanding our population, predicting need, and intervening early

Mental health services can make good use of data to effectively predict the needs of their populations.

17 February 2023

Lessons in prevention from the fire service

Learning from the fire service could help NHS leaders shift the dial on population health management and health inequalities.

14 December 2022

The value of partnership working

Director of the Welsh NHS Confederation Darren Hughes reflects on the importance of working in partnership across sector boundaries.

1 December 2022

WelshConfed22 key takeaways: Relationships, listening and community

Director of the Welsh NHS Confederation, Darren Hughes, shares his reflections following the annual conference and exhibition.

3 November 2022

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