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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The NHS in England and its response to COVID-19

The NHS in England is being transformed in response to COVID-19. And as the crisis evolves, new challenges are emerging.

10 April 2020

In the fight against COVID-19, NHS diversity is our strength

Exploring the impact of COVID-19 on BME communities and how we must support the very people who are sustaining the NHS in its moment of crisis.

9 April 2020

How do NHS leaders feel amid the crisis?

We need to think carefully about how we support our senior leaders during this COVID-19 crisis.

8 April 2020

Relaxing parts of the Mental Health Act during COVID-19

Views on the includes amendments to the Mental Health Act 1983m, which recently passed through parliament as part of the Coronavirus Act 2020.

8 April 2020

All changed, changed utterly

The NHS is adapting at breathtaking speed but we need to keep feeding back to the centre as we adapt to a position that changes radically every day.

30 March 2020

How data and digital services can fight COVID-19

COVID-19 is the biggest challenge to the NHS in 70 years. While the main focus is on equipping the frontline, there are other tools that can help.

30 March 2020

How to look after your mental health and wellbeing in the midst of a global pandemic

These testing times give us all the more reason to pay attention to our mental health and wellbeing.

27 March 2020

Official sources of information critical to combating Coronavirus

Highlighting the critical role of organisations and individuals in adhering to what is being ased of us in the fight against COVID-19.

26 March 2020

The huge pressures ahead for primary care networks

Working as a network may offer GP practices the flexibility, support and opportunities to deliver care in a different way at a time of national crisis

26 March 2020

The phoney war is over

How the NHS Confederation can support you during the COVID-19 crisis.

23 March 2020

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

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