Professor Judith Smith, Suzie Bailey and Professor Sir Chris Ham explore why strong, well-trained NHS management is essential ...

Our experts dissect the NHS planning guidance for 2026/7 to 2028/29, and ask what it means for the system, staff and patients ...

Improving NHS admin isn’t easy – but some solutions are surprisingly simple. Julia Cream looks at two real life examples of ...

This report highlights that lack of access to community services is driving some people to seek care in A&E, and sometimes ...

Back In 2020, The NHS Became The First National Health System To Commit To Becoming Carbon Net Zero. Emma Wills Considers ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has put the UK health and care workforce under unprecedented pressure. The workforce had been struggling to cope even before the pandemic took hold. Staff stress, absenteeism, ...

A national framework for action on improvement and leadership development in NHS-funded services was published by NHS Improvement in December 2016, sponsored by key national organisations with NHS ...

AI has the potential to transform NHS and social care services, but can providers adopt AI at the pace and scale needed to ...

The unprecedented slowdown in the growth of NHS funding in England since 2010 required the NHS to pursue the most ambitious programme of productivity improvement since its foundation. It has broadly ...

The establishment of primary care networks (PCNs) is one of the most important reforms to primary care in England in recent years. This report, published jointly by The King’s Fund and the Centre for ...

The reconfiguration of clinical services continues to generate public and political controversy, locally and nationally. Given significant financial and workforce constraints, now and in the future, ...

In September 2021, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Sajid Javid, launched a review of leadership in health and social care, led by former Vice Chief of the Defence Staff, General Sir ...