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News

Pride Season 2023

Pride Season celebrates LGBTQ+ people in all their diversity, raises awareness, and combats prejudice with education.

25 May 2023
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Briefing

Community Network survey on waiting times in children and young people’s services

Leaders from 65 community provider organisations shared their views on waiting times in children and young people’s services.

30 May 2023
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Press release

Government set to fail its commitment to protect patient care by not fully funding the staff pay award

Patient care set to suffer without wider central budget for all Agenda for Change staff.

28 May 2023

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Report

Realising the potential of virtual wards

Exploring the critical success factors for realising the ambitions of virtual wards.

23 May 2023
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Briefing

Integrated care strategies: a snapshot in progress

An overview of the themes emerging from the first iterations of integrated care strategies published by integrated care systems.

15 May 2023
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Report

In train? An update on mental health nurse education

A stocktake on the mental health nurse workforce.

16 May 2023
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Article

78-week waiters: the story so far

The 78-week target may not have been met yet, but systems have made huge progress to bring the number down towards 10,000.

12 May 2023
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Latest news

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Press release

Children waiting for community health services risk being ‘overshadowed’ as health leaders call for cross-government action

Health leaders warn that children and young people are being put at risk as vital community services struggle to keep pace with demand.

29 May 2023
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Press release

Government set to fail its commitment to protect patient care by not fully funding the staff pay award

Patient care set to suffer without wider central budget for all Agenda for Change staff.

28 May 2023
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News

NHS Confederation responds to the government’s life sciences growth package

Dr Layla McCay responds to the announcement of a life sciences growth package by the Chancellor

26 May 2023
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News

NHS Confederation responds to government's New Hospital Programme announcement

Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, responds to the Secretary of State's announcement about the New Hospital Programme.

25 May 2023
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Featured blogs

Ines Campos-Matos
Blog post

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
Donna Hall
Blog post

Making the Fuller Stocktake real for communities

Professor Donna Hall challenges us to think how we can turbo-charge implementation of the Fuller Stocktake in our integrated care systems.

4 May 2023
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Blog post

With primary care at a crossroads, now is the time to shape the future

Ruth Rankine on how primary care and the wider health and care system can design and deliver a brighter future.

27 April 2023
Christiana Melam
Blog post

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
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Latest events

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Webinar

Community Network, June 2023

The next meeting of the Community Network will take place on Tuesday 6 June between noon and 2pm.

6 June 2023 12:00 - 14:00 GMT
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Event

NHS ConfedExpo 2023

Join us at Manchester Central as we and NHS England unite health and care leaders and their teams at one of the biggest health and care conferences.

14 June 2023 08:30 - 15 June 2023 17:00 GMT
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Webinar

Community Power: working differently to deliver the shift to prevention

A webinar in partnership with New Local to explore the potential of working with communities to drive change.

20 June 2023 10:00 - 11:00 GMT
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Webinar

The PCN Hub approach: delivering on access with digital integration

A webinar designed to help delegates transition to cloud based technology by end of 2025.

20 June 2023 17:00 GMT
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