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John Llewellyn

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Frontline digitisation: people over functionality

If staff needs aren’t considered, the benefits outlined in NHS England’s Frontline Digitisation programme will be difficult to realise.

22 April 2024

Sian Stanley

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Working across the interface: greater than the sum of our parts

In Harlow, community/primary assets are reducing pressure on the emergency department by providing alternative care settings.

19 March 2024

Jacob Haddad speaking at ConfedExpo.

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A more sustainable operating model for primary care

Two key principles for a more sustainable operating model for primary care.

15 February 2024

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Why the success of ICSs may not be measured by their survival

Matthew Taylor suggests three ways to address the risks of integrated care systems (ICSs) being seen to fail.

30 March 2022

System regulation can help or hinder collaboration

An effective system regulation architecture will add value to organisational regulation by incentivising integration.

21 March 2022

The health and care bill: far from a done deal

Time is running out for debate on new amendments to the health and care bill, if it is to gain Royal Assent by the end of April.

21 March 2022

Parity of power, diversity of contribution

Key principles that might be applied to the relationship between ICSs and provider collaboratives.

10 March 2022

When is the government going to fix the COVID-19 pandemic’s mental health crisis?

With no mental health plan coming from the government at this particularly critical time for mental health services, Sean Duggan asks why.

8 March 2022

CCG lessons and legacy for ICSs

A look at how clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have set the stage for integrated care systems (ICSs).

3 March 2022

An updated picture of NHS pressures in Wales

Darren Hughes, director of the Welsh NHS Confederation, reflects on the pressures on the NHS in Wales as the narrative turns to 'living with Covid'.

28 February 2022

Establishing proportionate accountability for integrated care systems

Partnership with local authorities and meaningful engagement with people and communities are the best way of ICSs earning a mandate to push back.

24 February 2022

NHS staff deserve to be listened to by government

What messages is the government sending when it decided not to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for NHS staff?

9 February 2022

Collaboration must be at the heart of the future of health and care

Integrated care systems (ICSs) and provider collaboratives are at the heart of reforms to enable more collaboration within and outside of the NHS.

3 February 2022

From fourth objective to system change

The government’s fourth core objective for ICSs might be the least understood currently, but could be the one that has the most wide-reaching impact.

31 January 2022

Seizing power from councils? ICSs will do quite the opposite

Matthew Taylor writes to allay fears of integrated care systems taking over from local government.

21 January 2022