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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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Delivering excellent care at the heart of the community

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

13 October 2021

How do we define 'value' in the NHS?

Moving to integrated care systems, the NHS has a real opportunity to focus on the whole patient pathway and the value that can add.

12 October 2021

Finding value: emerging value-based trends in healthcare

A commercial perspective on how value-based healthcare can help achieve the best possible healthcare outcomes at a proportionate cost.

8 October 2021

Disruptors reducing inequalities and powering up integrated care

Looking to reduce health inequalities and level up? Social prescribing link workers are a key part of shifting the dial, writes Christiana Melam.

7 October 2021

We have a once-in-a-generation chance to fix our digital infrastructure – let’s not waste it

Community diagnostic hubs, with the right communications infrastructure, can create an NHS-wide system that’s fast, safe, cost-effective and scalable.

5 October 2021

Pitting patients and GPs against each other is unhelpful and dangerous

As primary care comes under fire about the standard of its service, we need honesty about what the NHS can do and how.

30 September 2021

Time to act together: two-hour crisis response

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

28 September 2021

NHS at heart of UK life sciences vision

Layla McCay, director of policy at the NHS Confederation, reflects on the new ‘vision’ and 10-year strategy for UK life sciences.

10 September 2021

Why should you attend the Wellbeing for Wales Lecture Series?

The Welsh NHS Confederation invites you to join our virtual Wellbeing for Wales Lecture Series, featuring eight inspiring lectures over four days.

6 September 2021

Brave new world: the third health revolution

Transformational ICS leadership requires establishing a culture of stewardship, changing the way people think and the language they use.

31 August 2021

Nudging younger people to help them grab a jab

Are barriers to opportunity causing slow vaccine take-up in younger people, and can ‘nudge theory’ help?

27 August 2021

Responding to challenges requires a partnership of equals

ICS leaders are rising to the challenge of strengthening system partnerships while preparing to take on statutory responsibilities from April 2022.

23 August 2021

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