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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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Complacent government messaging risks fight against COVID-19

Precautionary steps must be taken now to prevent more severe measures being reintroduced to stop the spread of COVID-19.

28 October 2021

The best service the NHS has offered yet

With medicines optimisation costs increasing, effective approaches are needed at national, systems and place levels with ICSs playing a key part.

27 October 2021

Sustainability in the NHS – what’s the theory and what’s the practice?

Being a major producer of carbon emissions in England, the NHS has many opportunities to tackle climate change and become more sustainable.

14 October 2021

What the H2 planning guidance means for elective recovery

Reducing waiting lists has been prioritised in the H2 planning guidance, but at what expense?

5 October 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

The 18-week standard: a fit and proper patients’ test?

Seizing the opportunity to review NHS targets could help the health service build back better – and fairer.

24 September 2021

Unpacking system leadership

Matthew Taylor on system leadership and why thinking like a system but acting like an entrepreneur is the order of the day.

21 September 2021

Opportunities and challenges of the new clinical standards for mental health

Proposed new clinical standards for mental health are welcomed by mental health leaders, but providers will need adequate resources to meet them.

6 September 2021

Primary care networks moving into the next phase of the NHS

A look at PCNs’ progress in the two years since their launch, and their ambitions for the future.

6 August 2021

Amanda Pritchard’s appointment: a moment in NHS history

As the new chief executive of the NHS in England, Amanda Pritchard’s appointment signals the start of more representative leadership.

6 August 2021

Discharge to assess – we must not lose progress

Failing to extend funding for discharge to assess could bring huge risk for the NHS, social care and patients.

6 August 2021

PCNs need right support to manage local population health

A new report looks back at the successes in the last two years and challenges ahead for primary care networks.

5 August 2021

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