NHS Voices

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Featured opinion

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

A photo of Dr Chris Pickering, wearing medical scrubs, photographed in a busy hospital environment.

The pursuit of dignity in dying

Dr Chris Pickering shares his personal mission to change how the health service approaches the concept of dying.

27 May 2025

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Inclusion health: tackling the extreme end of health inequalities

Integrating services is key to improving experiences for people in inclusion health groups and for the health and care system as a whole.

1 June 2023

Supporting transgender and gender non-conforming patients to access healthcare

Primary care is bridging the gap to trans, non-binary, intersex and gender non-conforming patients in South Southwark.

17 May 2023

Making the Fuller Stocktake real for communities

Professor Donna Hall challenges us to think how we can turbo-charge implementation of the Fuller Stocktake in our integrated care systems.

4 May 2023

Social prescribing link workers can improve mental health outcomes and waiting lists

For Link Worker Day, Christiana Melam explains how social prescribing link workers can support mental health patients before they reach crisis point.

27 April 2023

Primary care networks and cloud-based telephony

How cloud-based telephony can enable more holistic and personalised primary care for patients.

30 March 2023

The NHS has warmed to Barclay, but his biggest test is to come

What the new reforms proposed by the Hewitt review will mean for the NHS and population health outcomes.

29 March 2023

Reflections on the digital journey across Frimley ICS

Digital tools can enhance patient care and improve workforce experience without losing the compassion inherent in health and care, writes Sam Burrows.

15 March 2023

We’re going through changes

Aruna Garcea discusses building a resilient future in primary care.

10 March 2023

Integrated care system measures that matter

How could integrated care system success be assessed? Dr Helen Davies shares her view on the metrics that might unlock the answer.

9 March 2023

Mental health - understanding our population, predicting need, and intervening early

Mental health services can make good use of data to effectively predict the needs of their populations.

17 February 2023

Connecting to improve mental health support for children and young people

Integrated care and investing in prevention are key to improving mental health services.

8 February 2023

Let’s connect and support young people’s mental health

Children's Mental Health Week calls on everyone to look at their services and see how they can better support young people and address inequalities.

6 February 2023

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