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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Flexible regulation and oversight key to successful system working

Ensuring systems are both supported and held to account will be crucial to the effectiveness of integration.

24 May 2021

Place is key to successful public health partnerships

The public health expertise we already have in our systems needs to be used in the right places and at the right levels.

26 April 2021

Five factors for provider collaboration & strategic commissioning

Collaboration has become a buzz word in the development of integrated care systems.

25 April 2021

Legislation must require clinical and lay members on ICS boards

The recent health and care white paper has broadly been welcomed by health leaders, but there are still concerns that need to be addressed.

1 April 2021

Why gender identity training can improve the lives of trans people using NHS services

On International Trans Day of Visibility, read about this personal quest to ensure trans people feel welcome and safe to access NHS services.

31 March 2021

Ombudsman’s new NHS Complaint Standards now live

On 30 March 2021, the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman published new Complaint Standards for the NHS.

30 March 2021

Commissioning is everyone’s business

As the NHS moves to integrated care, we look at the integral role of commissioning in integrated care systems.

17 March 2021

The health challenges facing the LGBTQ+ population

We share new recommendations that can help support the needs of the LGBTQ+ population in the face of COVID-19.

18 February 2021

Beware ministers seeking to reassert control over the NHS

The government is set to embark on a round of reforms that will reverse the changes introduced under David Cameron in 2012.

17 February 2021

The increasing need for children’s mental health services

It is Children’s Mental Health Week in a year when supporting mental health and wellbeing of children and young people is more important than ever.

1 February 2021

Brexit cuts uncertainty for health and care but hurdles remain

Now that a Brexit deal has been struck, what does it mean for the UK’s health and care system?

29 December 2020

Social care reform: social care and the NHS

Publication of the BMA’s recent report on social care underlines the urgency for reform.

7 December 2020

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