Rory Deighton

Director, Acute Network

Rory is director of our Acute Network, and leads a programme that ensures that acute members' concerns are effectively represented across media outlets and to government.

The acute team works closely with other parts of the NHS Confederation to bring members together around place-based working and provider collaboration, with a strong focus on learning and improvement.

He has a keen interest in the patient agenda, and has strong relationships with National Voices, Healthwatch and the Patients' Association. Before joining the NHS Confederation, Rory worked as part of the West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership.

Follow on Twitter @rory_deighton

Contributions

Ruth Rankine and Rory Deighton

Confed Viewpoint blogs

Stronger collaborative working needed between primary and secondary care

The NHS Confederation is launching a new programme to support primary and secondary care to come together to address the challenges they face.

4 March 2024

An NHS outpatients sign outside of a hospital.

Where do provider collaboratives fit within the CQC’s single assessment framework?

Explore how the Care Quality Commission's single assessment framework will impact provider collaboratives.

21 December 2022

Graphic of a townscape with a hospital, row of homes and care homes spotlighting five key points that account for patient handover delays

Social care, patient flow and the elective backlog

Capacity in social care is critical for patient flow in hospitals and easing the backlogs in elective care and diagnostics.

10 November 2022

Graphic of a townscape with a hospital, row of homes and care homes spotlighting five key points that account for patient handover delays

Patient handovers and the £500m discharge promise

The link between discharge funding, patient flow and patient handovers, explained.

28 October 2022