NHS Voices

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

NHS Voices is the place to share ideas, debate solutions and discover how organisations are confronting challenges across health and care.

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Featured blogs

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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No place like home

Introducing virtual wards during the pandemic has led to them being implemented more widely to care for people in the communities of Wolverhampton.

22 August 2023

‘Going over to the dark side’: creating a culture of clinical leadership in the NHS

Management-trained clinicians are best placed to deliver the effective leadership needed to improve patient outcomes.

25 July 2023

Pay parity for community services must be addressed

While the NHS workforce plan includes increasing community services workforce, there is much that still needs addressing to grow the sector.

13 July 2023

Effective healthcare for all is a joint venture

How Barnardo’s Emergency Care Model is helping to address longstanding challenges for the NHS by acting on the wider determinants of health.

7 July 2023

Engaging with district councils

Why district councils are well placed to understand the neighbourhoods and places that systems are trying to support.

6 July 2023

What I have learned about embedding mental health practitioners in primary care

How the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme is supporting redesign of mental health services around primary care networks.

19 June 2023

Building an understanding of infant mental health

This week is Infant Mental Health Awareness Week, but awareness alone does not lead to action, writes Sally Hogg.

16 June 2023

Three big ways to accelerate elective recovery without adding to capacity

Three suggestions for helping services keep up with tomorrow’s demand.

15 June 2023

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

Technology and trust – using data and AI responsibly in healthcare

To achieve the potential of digital modernisation in healthcare, we must ensure the public can trust in the processes involved.

9 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

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