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Featured opinion

Marsha McAdam

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

Chris Ham

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

Evelyn Asante-Mensah

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

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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

Reflections on the current position in Wales

Darren Hughes, director of the Welsh NHS Confederation, reflects on the position of the NHS in Wales and communicating the reality to the public.

1 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

The long-term benefits of working at scale

Primary care federations' ability to work at scale has a shelf life that's longer than the pandemic.

31 January 2022

Ensuring local government is fully integrated at all levels of an ICS

Integrating care is a change of mindset and ways of working. It is vital that everyone understands the full role that local councils will play.

28 January 2022

Why stop wearing a mask? Now is the obvious time to continue

Easing restrictions at the Omicron peak, rather than making sure numbers have dipped safely, is a bold, potentially dangerous, choice.

28 January 2022

Integration with purpose: supporting Oliver and Dylan to live well

Integrating acute, community and adult social care services has achieved demonstrable outcomes in Torbay and South Devon.

26 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

Resetting human and financial resource in general practice

As general practice is flooded by demand, how do we resource effectively to overcome health inequalities?

20 January 2022

Fuller’s stocktake

Get involved in ensuring primary care is at the heart of integrated care systems.

20 January 2022

We cannot continue to neglect mental health funding

As Omicron ebbs, we must turn our attention again to parity of esteem for mental health in policy, funding and legislation.

19 January 2022

Salvaging positive outcomes from dark and difficult times

Let’s not lose sight of the innovation and new ways of working that have characterised the NHS response to COVID-19.

18 January 2022

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