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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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Transforming PIFU through triage

In-person appointments will always be an essential part of healthcare, but safe and effective care can and does happen outside of appointments.

17 August 2022

The elective backlog casts a long shadow

While all eyes are on reducing the 6.6 million elective care backlog, we also need to ensure that out of (acute) hospital does not mean out of mind.

2 August 2022

Cost-of-living crisis only exacerbating inequalities in Wales

Assistant director of the Welsh NHS Confederation, Nesta Lloyd-Jones, examines what needs to be done to stem rising inequalities in Wales.

29 July 2022

How businesses can help tackle the health gap

Moving beyond traditional NHS collaborations will be key to addressing the complexities around health inequalities and closing the health gap.

27 July 2022

We’re seeing what it means for the NHS to ‘live with covid’

With COVID-19 on the rise again and new strains emerging, Layla McCay stresses that we must act on lessons learnt in readiness for the winter.

4 July 2022

When resource is there, the NHS evolves and delivers

Director of the Welsh NHS Confederation, Darren Hughes, focuses on NHS and social care finances in this month's blog.

30 June 2022

The refresh of the NHS Long Term Plan should embrace the positive lessons from the pandemic

To meet government expectations of ‘doing more with the same,’ the NHS must build on what was achieved during the pandemic.

24 June 2022

Time to rethink the NHS Long Term Plan

The last two years give cause to re-examine the NHS Long Term Plan. Matthew Taylor considers how it could and should be refreshed.

17 June 2022

Bold partnerships: the key to progress on our greatest healthcare challenges

How do we realise the true potential of collaboration?

13 June 2022

Making continuing healthcare work better for all

Lou Patten says changes are needed for NHS Continuing Healthcare assessments, and offers recommendations for joint working practice to deliver it.

2 June 2022

Partnership working key to improving population health

Assistant director of the Welsh NHS Confederation, Nesta Lloyd-Jones, reflects on events in the last month and what we can take away from them.

1 June 2022

A more democratic NHS?

A locally engaged health service can lead to a more open, dynamic and pluralist model of NHS governance and accountability.

26 May 2022

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