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Chris Ham

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

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

Catherine Inness

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

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Change wisely – why we must get evaluation right

What should we keep, and what should we lose? As the NHS resets, approaches to evaluation need to take a new turn too.

17 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

Urgent community response and the science of marginal gains

With the skills of its UCR team, Integrated Care Warrington knew it could support local emergency services. Caroline Williams explains.

14 December 2021

Virtual ward care: breaking the 19th century mould

Embracing the virtual revolution would be the first real change in hospital care for over a century, but are we ready to shift the locus of care?

14 December 2021

How digital technology is benefiting community health services

The Community Network, hosted by the NHS Confederation and NHS Providers, is shining a light on innovative practice among community providers.

30 November 2021

Why all trusts and health boards can benefit from close working with their NHS charity

All trusts and health boards could benefit from working with their own NHS charity - and the benefits go beyond the financial, writes Ellie Orton.

9 November 2021

What will the community sector’s piece of the Spending Review pie be?

The government’s Spending Review has provided welcome extra funding for the NHS but it has left several unanswered questions for community providers.

2 November 2021

Duty of candour

Being open and transparent helps to know what’s right to do for patients, families and staff.

1 November 2021

Primary care at system level

The wish to be truly integrated is what’s driving primary care to be heard at system level.

29 October 2021

Improving cognition and reducing mental health waiting lists

How the voluntary, community & social enterprise sector collaborate to help reduce cognitive decline in patients experiencing memory complaints.

19 October 2021

It’s good to talk

Initiatives such as Men’s Shed Fleetwood are proving important not only to mental health and wellbeing, but to reducing pressures on the NHS.

15 October 2021

Sustainability in the NHS – what’s the theory and what’s the practice?

Being a major producer of carbon emissions in England, the NHS has many opportunities to tackle climate change and become more sustainable.

14 October 2021

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