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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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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

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

The she-cession and why the time for equality is now

For women working in health and care, the pandemic is having a real impact on their health, wellbeing and future opportunity in the workplace.

6 January 2022

A perfect storm: supporting children and young people’s mental health

Mental health services have strived to support children and young people, but the pandemic has also fuelled an increase in demand.

21 December 2021

Mental health faces the toughest three years in living memory

While additional funding announced to the NHS is apportioned across the system, we must recognise not just physical health, but mental health too.

27 October 2021

Increase in demand for mental health support is being felt across the system

Mental health problems in England are growing at an alarming rate causing unprecedented strain not just on mental health services, but all healthcare.

25 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

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

The NHS backlog requires radical treatment

NHS leaders know that they must find a radically new approach to dealing with the waiting list backlog, explains Matthew Taylor.

26 September 2021

Integrated care: starting with housing advice on hospital wards

How supported housing providers and NHS trusts are working together to reduce delayed discharges and save public money.

20 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

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