NHS Voices

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Featured opinion

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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Social care roles are not low skilled

The latest research from the Wales Centre of Public Policy on the future of the health and social care workforce in Wales.

2 October 2020

The Additional Role Reimbursement Scheme

Insight into the challenges of the Additional Role Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) and potential solutions.

2 October 2020

PCN recruitment and the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme

Opportunities presented by the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS).

2 October 2020

Virtual conferences: the new norm

Expert insights from the International Conference on Integrated Care.

1 October 2020

NHS Reset: The importance of protecting everyone's mental health during COVID-19

Looking after the mental health and wellbeing of the NHS workforce and the general population must not be forgotten.

30 September 2020

NHS Reset: Integration in action

COVID-19 has exposed health inequalities and given a platform for increased partnership working and integrated care.

29 September 2020

Improving accessibility across our communications

A personal account of a disabled member of staff and the efforts she and her team have undertaken to improve communications outputs during COVID-19.

29 September 2020

NHS Reset: Cancer and COVID-19 – managing co-existence

What it means to deliver cancer recovery plans to get services back on track.

23 September 2020

NHS Reset: Learning from COVID-19

A look at some of the many lessons we can learn from COVID-19.

22 September 2020

NHS Reset: Ensuring people living with dementia do not pay a greater price for the pandemic

People living with dementia need a national approach to rehabilitation to support them through COVID-19 and beyond.

21 September 2020

We need to reach out now more than ever with the message that talking helps

The important work Samaritans Wales have been doing throughout COVID-19 and the support available for health and social care staff.

17 September 2020

How will we cope with the next phase?

Are we ready for a second pandemic surge, along with handling winter pressures, re-establishing non-pandemic services and supporting social care?

14 September 2020

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