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 ...

This report, commissioned by the Health Foundation, provides a summary of evidence for how emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, smartphones, wearable devices and the internet of ...

Ambulatory care-sensitive conditions (ACSCs) are conditions for which effective management and treatment should limit emergency admission to hospital. Nevertheless, ACSCs currently account for more ...

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 ...

This briefing focuses on how to make careers in health and social care more attractive so as to recruit and retain the staff the sector needs. Years of poor planning and fragmented responsibilities ...

Basic infrastructure challenges are holding back the potential for AI to improve health and care services. These challenges erode staff enthusiasm for AI and contribute to a demoralised workforce.