NHS Voices

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NHS Voices is the place to share ideas, debate solutions and discover how organisations are confronting challenges across health and care.

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Featured opinion

Dr Kathy Mclean
NHS Voices

Something has to give on ICB redundancies

Funding uncertainty and delays risk undermining ICB reforms essential to delivering the NHS 10 Year Health Plan, writes Dr Kathy McLean.

20 August 2025
Alexandra Ankrah
NHS Voices

Keeping equality at the forefront of NHS changes

Alexandra Ankrah shares her hopes for a future NHS that leaves no one behind.

15 July 2025
Chris Ham
NHS Voices

What can we learn about implementation from previous NHS reforms?

To deliver the 10 Year Health Plan successfully we must learn the lessons from past reforms.

30 June 2025

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The NHS was left ill-prepared for COVID-19

The public inquiry into the pandemic will pose fundamental questions into the role of the state in responding to the crisis.

11 January 2022

Appointments to integrated care boards

Strategic thinking is required to ensure key roles in integrated care boards are appointed to appropriately, so they can operate from 1 July 2022.

5 January 2022

Is the end of Omicron in sight?

Much as we'd all like the disruptions caused by Omicron to be reduced, it is still too early to know its trend, explains Matthew Taylor.

3 January 2022

Incredible staff commitment and resilience

As we approach Christmas, Darren Hughes reflects on all that staff have done and continue to do for the people of Wales.

21 December 2021

Using data-led insights to build a stronger NHS

The power of data has helped us to fight the pandemic; now let’s use it to shape a stronger NHS for the future, writes Dr Shaun O’Hanlon.

16 December 2021

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