NHS Voices

What can we learn about implementation from previous NHS reforms?

To deliver the ten-year health plan successfully we must learn the lessons from past reforms.

30 June 2025

Uniting health and schools to improve mental health

By collaborating with schools and harnessing their insight, health systems can improve children’s mental health both in and outside of school.

27 June 2025

What will it take for primary care to lead in neighbourhoods?

Primary care is already leading in many neighbourhoods, but that leadership needs consolidation and support to enable it to thrive.

25 June 2025

Scaling AI in healthcare

The future of AI in the NHS is about embedding it into the fabric of how services are delivered, writes Catherine Inness of Accenture.

6 June 2025

NHS ten-year health plan: turning a vision into reality through prevention

To achieve the move from a sickness-based service to a wellness service the NHS must see prevention as an investment not a cost.

3 June 2025

The pursuit of dignity in dying

Dr Chris Pickering shares his personal mission to change how the health service approaches the concept of dying.

27 May 2025

From hopeless to hopeful: improving support for people with BPD

Marsha McAdam reflects on the hopelessness she felt as someone with BPD, as well as the hope she now feels for the future of BPD support services.

23 May 2025

How can ICB commissioning succeed where previous attempts have failed?

Sir Chris Ham on what ICBs need to succeed as commissioners, in the face of current changes for the NHS and past commissioning challenges.

21 May 2025

Why we’re looking afresh at anti-racism and zero tolerance

Examining what zero tolerance means in practice has prompted us to interrogate the idea much more closely, writes Evelyn Asante-Mensah OBE.

15 May 2025

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

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

Trust and ICB leaders must resist the temptation to blame others for the NHS’s woes

While the new planning guidance focuses on immediate improvements, they have to be balanced with the ten-year health plan's longer-term reforms.

17 February 2025