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Nic Wetton

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Taking a whole-school approach to children’s mental health

Making mental health education statutory could be transformative for children and for the NHS, writes primary school headteacher Nic Wetton.

20 March 2025

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Are microteams the key to primary care continuity?

It is time for GP practices to consider restoring the ‘personal list’ and improving care through continuity.

4 March 2025

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Addressing maternal health inequalities

Sharvari Joshi shares how a maternity drop-in session spurred her to take action to address maternal healthcare inequalities in Tower Hamlets.

7 February 2025

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Place is as much a description of experience as it is of a neighbourhood

Reflections on how improving the lives we all live requires different partners and organisations to work together.

18 March 2020

What role do ambulance services play in public health?

Considering the role of the ambulance service in prevention and public health.

16 March 2020

How do you create the right environment for clinicians to lead change?

An exploration of how understanding the reality of people’s lives can help your team develop the humility it needs to grow.

12 March 2020

Integrated care: service proximity is the aim, cultural change is the gain

A look at the benefits of system working.

9 March 2020

Using ‘place’ to do the right thing and solve local issues

How the concept of ‘place’ has made an impact in Mid-Nottinghamshire.

5 March 2020

What is our contribution to tackling health inequality?

Examining what health services can do to address health inequalities.

2 March 2020

Place, sweet place

The NHS Long Term Plan makes it clear that health and care services will have to change. But what is the best way to take this forward?

24 February 2020

The future is with us

The future of integrated care systems.

17 February 2020

‘System by default’ – how to make a good idea a reality

The delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan depends on establishing strong partnerships between local systems.

14 February 2020

What’s the big deal about population health management?

What exactly is this term that everyone’s talking about, and what benefit are patients seeing as a result?

13 February 2020

Time for community services to be given resources to care for most vulnerable people

It’s time for words to become actions, and for community services to be given the resources they need.

12 February 2020

Goodbye to EU

We leave the EU without the threat of no deal, but the next 11 months will be just as great as it has been up until now.

3 February 2020

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